UCL Colloquium in Legal & Social Philosophy 2011:

Speech Rights and Mediated Communication

by
Baroness Onora O'Neill
University of Cambridge

on 2 February 2011, from 4-7pm

Venue:
UCL Law Faculty
Bentham House, Endsleigh Gardens
London WC1H 0EG

About the speaker:

Onora O'Neill writes on ethics and political philosophy, with particular interests in questions of international justice, in the philosophy of Immanuel Kant and in bioethics.  Her books include Faces of Hunger: An Essay on Poverty, Development and Justice (1986), Constructions of Reason: Exploration of Kant's Practical Philosophy (1989), Towards Justice and Virtue (1996), Bounds of Justice (2000), Autonomy and Trust in Bioethics (2002), A Question of Trust (the 2002 Reith Lectures) and Rethinking Informed Consent in Bioethics (jointly with Neil Manson, 2007).  She currently works on practical judgement and normativity, on questions of trust and accountability in public life and on the ethics of communication (including media ethics) while continuing to work on Kant’s philosophy.

She was Principal of Newnham from 1992 to 2006, and teaches in the Faculty of Philosophy in Cambridge.  She is a Professor of Philosophy at the University of Cambridge and formerly President of the British Academy and Chair of the Nuffield Foundation. She been a member of and chaired the Nuffield Council on Bioethics and the Human Genetics Advisory Commission. She has worked on a number of reports on bio-medical issues, including  recently the Kings Fund Inquiry into the Safety of Maternity Services.  She was created a Life Peer in 1999, sits as a crossbencher,   served on   the House of Lords   Select Committees on Stem Cell Research, BBC Charter Review and currently Genomic Medicine.

Papers for discussion will be made available normally between 10 days to two weeks in advance on this website: http://www.ucl.ac.uk/laws/jurisprudence/colloquium