Date: Thursday 10 October 2013
Time: 6.30-8pm
Venue: Wolfson Theatre, New Academic Building
Speaker: Professor Amr Shalakany
Chair: Dr Jan Kleinheisterkamp

Of the many Arab Springs, revolution in Egypt stands out for its decidedly legalistic tone. For the last two years, political battles have been mostly fought at court, judges increasingly perceived as enemies of the people, and rule of law slogans on separation of powers or judicial independence suspiciously inspected for counter-revolutionary ploys. The Shakespearean call to kill all the lawyers has never been as palpable since Henry VI. Old anxieties rise again over the emancipatory potentials of liberalism as ideology, and lawyers as its governing elite. And so it all comes back: can law and revolution be compatible?

Amr Shalakany is associate professor of law at the American University in Cairo and visiting professor at the LSE Department of Law.

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