Kent alumnus and human rights lawyer Jonathan Cooper OBE of Doughty Street Chambers will give a guest lecture on Brexit on Wednesday 7 December.
Entitled ‘Has Brexit Broken Britain – Is it time for a Written Constitution?’, the lecture is open to all staff and students and will take place in Woolf Lecture Theatre from 11am to 12pm.
The guest lecture is being delivered as part of the Public Law 1 module co-convened by Dr Suhraiya Jivraj.
Jonathan Cooper read History at Kent and was awarded an Honorary Doctorate from the University in July 2013 for his contribution to human rights law. Before training for the bar in 1991, he was the HIV/AIDS Co-ordinator for the Haemophilia Society in London, working also in Montreal for the World Federation of Hemophilia. He became an Associate Tenant at Doughty Street Chambers while working as Legal Director at Liberty and Deputy Director of JUSTICE. He became a full-time member of Chambers in 2002.
Jonathan Cooper’s legal career has been principally in the field of public law and international human rights law. He has been involved in some of the most important human rights cases of the last two decades at the European Court of Human Rights and domestically. He has also conducted training sessions for the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, the Ministry of Justice and the Ministry of Defence, as well as in Turkey, Syria, Georgia, Central Asia, the Caribbean region and West Africa.
In addition to being the editor of the European Human Rights Law Review, he is currently Chief Executive of the Human Dignity Trust and a Trustee of the Sigrid Rausing Trust. Until 2012, he was Chair of the Executive Committee of the Human Rights Lawyers Association and in 2007, he was awarded an OBE for his work in human rights.