LIBERTY, SOVEREIGNTY & REPUBLICANISM: CAN THE LEVELLER TRADITION BE REVIVED IN THE 21ST CENTURY?Organised by History Today and OurKingdomChaired by Paul Lay, Editor, History TodayQuentin Skinner was elected into a fellowship at Cambridge in 1962 upon gaining a double starred first in History. He stayed there, becoming Regius Professor of Modern History in 1996, until 2008 when he moved to become Professor in Humanities at Queen Mary, London. He is generally regarded as one of the two principal members of the influential 'Cambridge School' of the study of the history of political thought. More recently, he has turned to the classic preoccupation of Cambridge Regius Professors the history of liberty.Geoffrey Robertson QC is a writer and founder and head of Doughty Street Chambers. He serves (part-time) as an Appeals judge of the UN Special Court for Sierra Leone. He has argued many landmark cases in media, constitutional and criminal law in the European Court of Human Rights, the House of Lords, the Privy Council and Commonwealth courts. As a UN Appeal judge he has delivered internationally important decisions on the illegality of conscripting child soldiers and the invalidity of amnesties for war crimes.Melissa Lane is a fellow at King’s College, Cambridge. Her work has focused on the history of political thought and political philosophy, spanning both the ancients and the moderns. Areas of research in political philosophy include security, compensation, authority, and accountability, as well as work on the political theory of international migration and of the role of corporations.
