Shami Chakrabarti

Shami Chakrabarti is a leading British human rights lawyer and campaigner who has written and broadcast widely and held a number of public roles in recent decades. A legislator in the House of Lords, she is the author ofOn Liberty and Of Women. Director of Liberty (the National Council for Civil Liberties) from 2003 to 2016, she was Shadow Attorney General for England and Wales from 2016 to 2020. Her latest book, Human Rights, looks at the historic national and international struggles for human rights, from ancient Babylon to the present day, and offers an indispensable guide to the law and logic underpinning human dignity and universal freedoms.