Magna Carta Uncovered
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Magna Carta Uncovered is part of the 2016 Contextual Lecture Series: Taking Liberties.
Lord Judge will examine the historic context in which Magna Carta came to be sealed, and the significance of what was agreed in 1215, followed by the extraordinary story of how it came to survive and become the basis for our constitutional arrangements and for those of the United States of America.
Igor Judge was Lord Chief Justice of England and Wales and Head of the Judiciary of England and Wales from 2008 to 2013. He was awarded an Open Exhibition to Magdalene College Cambridge in 1959 where he read History and Law. While at Cambridge he entered the Hon Society of Middle Temple and was subsequently called to the Bar in 1963. In 1988 he was appointed a High Court Judge in the Queen’s Bench Division and knighted. In 1996 he was appointed Lord Justice of Appeal and Sworn of the Privy Council. He was created a life peer in 2008. Lord Judge served as President of the Selden Society from 2009–2015.
