Cherie Booth: Anspach Lecture

Noted barrister and Queen’s Counsel Cherie Booth (Mrs. Tony Blair) will give the Rena and Angelus Anspach Lecture at 5 p.m. on Thursday, October 20. Ms. Booth is a leading Queen’s Counsel, specializing in public law, human rights, media and information law, and European Community law. She will speak about Human Rights Between Two Worlds—United States and European Approaches to Comparative Learning and the International Criminal Court.

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 SAS, brings to Penn distinguished policy makers shaping international affairs.

For the location of the lecture, see www.sas.upenn.edu/home/news/ anspach_lecture05.html on Thursday.