British First Lady to Speak at 2005 Anspach Lecture
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Human Rights Between Two Worlds - United States and European Approaches to Comparative Learning and the International Criminal Court
Cherie Booth Blair, Queen’s Counsel, First
Lady, U.K.
Thursday, October 20, 5 p.m.
College Hall 200
Noted barrister and Queen’s Counsel Cherie Booth (Mrs. Tony Blair) will give the Rena and Angelus Anspach Lecture Thursday, October 20 at 5:00 p.m. Ms. Booth is a leading Queen’s Counsel, specializing in public law, human rights, media and information law, and European Community law.
Ms. Booth is Chancellor and Honorary Fellow of Liverpool John Moores University and Governor and Honorary Fellow of the London School of Economics and the Open University. She is also a Fellow of the International Society of Lawyers for Public Service. Among her recent publications is a chapter on the prospects for the International Criminal Court in From Nuremburg to the Hague: the Future of International Criminal Justice.
The annual Anspach Lecture, under the auspices of the Christopher H. Browne Center for International Policy in the School of Arts and Sciences, brings to Penn the most distinguished policy makers shaping international affairs.