The James Mackeith Memorial Lecture 2023
Book ticketsOrganised by:
British Psychoanalytical Society (incorporating the Institute of Psychoanalysis)
Description
STATES OF DENIAL
How democratic society manages to square its liberal values with the ‘war on terror.’
Speaker: Conor Gearty
Chair: David Bell
Conor Gearty is Professor of human rights law at LSE Law School. He has published widely on terrorism, civil liberties and human rights. Conor is also a barrister and was a founder member of Matrix chambers, from where he continues to practice. He was Director of LSE’s Centre for the Study of Human Rights (2002-2009)
JAMES MACKEITH, OBE, who died in 2007, was an outstanding Forensic Psychiatrist who dedicated himself to Human Rights issues and to the collaboration between his field and psychoanalysis.
