The Risk of Regression

The Risk of Regression: LGBT and other human rights if the UK leaves the EU (and the ECHR)

• What is going to happen to fundamental rights post Brexit?

• Will the Human Rights Act still be repealed?

We are delighted to welcome Professor Wintemute as part of a special evening which focusses on and celebrates LGBT+ rights.

This is your chance to ask questions and express views about a highly relevant and topical issue from one of the UK's leading human rights expert.

Hosted by Hughes Hall Fellow, Dr Martin Steinfeld

All welcome. Free of charge. Booking essential.

About the speaker

Robert Wintemute is a Professor of Human Rights Law. He joined the Dickson Poon School of Law in 1991 after practising as an Associate in the Bankruptcy Department at Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy LLP in New York, 1982-87. In 1978, Professor Wintemute completed his BA in Economics at the University of Alberta (which included a year at Université Laval). In 1982, he earned his LLB (common law) and BCL (Québec civil law) in the National Programme at McGill University. In 1993, he was awarded his DPhil by the University of Oxford.

Professor Wintemute’s special interests lie in Human Rights Law, Anti-Discrimination Law, European Union Law, and Sexual Orientation and the Law.