On 24 October 2018, Professor Philippe Sands QC gave the 2018 Ruth Adler Memorial Lecture on ‘East-West Street and the Making of Modern Human Rights’. It was followed by a response from Lord Advocate James Wolffe QC.
About The Ruth Adler Memorial Lecture:
The annual Ruth Adler Memorial Lecture is a lecture series inaugurated in 2008 at Edinburgh Law School in memory of lecturer and activist in human rights Ruth Adler, whose work was instrumental in the area of women’s rights and children’s rights and was influential in establishing institutions in both those areas in Scotland. It has become an important event in the Human Rights Calendar in Scotland.