Upcoming Lectures

The British Constitution: the last ten years and the next fifty

Lord Sumption

Lord Sumption began his career as an academic historian before turning to law and practising at the bar. In January 2012 he was appointed as a Justice of the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom directly from the bar, the only barrister in recent years to have been so honoured. He retired from the court in December 2018. He delivered the BBC Reith Lectures in 2019 on the theme of Law and the Decline of Politics. Lord Sumption has maintained his interest in history throughout his career, recently completing a five-volume history of the Hundred Years War.