Professor Francesca Klug OBE is a Professorial Research Fellow at the LSE. She is Director of the Human Rights Futures Project which seeks to explore the direction of human rights discourse. Francesca was previously a Senior Research Fellow at King's College Law School where she assisted the government in devising the model for incorporating the European Convention on Human Rights into UK law reflected in the Human Rights Act. Francesca is a trustee of the British Institute of Human Rights, an Academic Expert at Doughty Street Chambers and an Editorial Board member of the journal Political Quarterly. She is writing a book on the ethics of universal human rights in the context of the current debate in the UK on the future of the Human Rights Act.