Or “Human Rights and Wrongs”, as Jonathan Sumption’s third lecture is called, in his series on Law’s Expanding Empire, delivered in Edinburgh and broadcast on Radio 4 and BBC World Service. Human ...

Judge, author and historian Jonathan Sumption is the 2019 BBC Reith Lecturer. Sumption will deliver five lectures on BBC Radio 4 outlining the decline of politics and the rise of law to fill the void.

Lord Sumption. Credit: Bloomberg Mercury. On Sunday's BBC News former Supreme Court justice Lord Sumption intervened in the civil liberties debate and the Covid-19 lockdown. In effect Lord Sumption's ...

Bregman's 2025 Reith Lectures will reflect on moments in history, including the likes of the suffragette and abolitionist movements, which have sparked transformative moral revolutions, offering hope ...

This year’s BBC Reith Lecturer is Jonathan Sumption, until recently one of England and Wales’s most senior Judges, sitting in the UK’s Supreme Court. In his series Law And The Decline Of Politics, he ...