Jolyon Maugham's organisation The Good Law Project, has since 2017 become a singular voice for democracy, transparency in government and the protection of rights. Famous wins include review of the prorogation of Parliament, transparency in the grant of Covid-19 contracts, and review of healthcare provision for trans children. This evening, the LSE Law School community engages in conversation with Jolyon Maugham on his stated mission to "defend, define and change the law to uphold democracy, protect the environment and ensure no one is left behind."

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Jo Maugham, a tax barrister by trade, became a Queen’s Counsel in 2015, and is an honorary Professor at the University of Durham. In 2017, Jo founded the not-for-profit organization Good Law Project. Good Law Project raises millions of pounds every year to fund strategic litigation and has won a number of landmark constitutional cases.

Gerry Simpson was appointed to a Chair in Public International Law at the LSE in January, 2016. He previously taught at the University of Melbourne (2007-2015), the Australian National University (1995-1998) and LSE (2000-2007) and has held visiting positions at ANU, Melbourne, NYU and Harvard. He is the author of Great Powers and Outlaw States (Cambridge, 2004), winner of the American Society of International Law Annual Prize for Creative Scholarship in 2005 and Law, War and Crime: War Crimes Trials and the Reinvention of International Law (Polity 2007), and co-editor (with Kevin Jon Heller) of Hidden Histories (Oxford, 2014) and (with Raimond Gaita) of Who’s Afraid of International Law? (Monash, 2016). Gerry is a Fellow of the British Academy.