Lord Plant is Professor of Jurisprudence and Political Philosophy at King's College London having previously served as Master of St Catherine's College, Oxford from 1994-2000. In the Lords he is a member of the Joint Committee on Human Rights and has been a member of the Government and Law Sub Committee of the Committee on the European Communities. He is the author of several books on political philosophy, and is also a Lay Canon at Winchester Cathedral.
Lord Plant's lecture will address recent changes in liberal law which he argues expose its inability to mediate fairly between different religions. Rather, 'neutral' liberalism is itself a matter of faith and existential choice on a level with the comprehensive doctrines it seeks to transcend. This raises the question of how to defend liberalism's exclusion of religious belief from the public realm.
The Lecture will be followed by a Reception in the Social Sciences Foyer, Priory Road. All are welcome.