Gentlemen, i am the executive director. I would like to welcome all of you to this special briefing. It is focusing on the shakeup in riyadh regional and international applications. Sincehe past 12, 13 days, the fourth or fifth of november, some serious and very significant changes and steps have been taken in the kingdom of saudi arabia that attracted the attention of media and political analysts all over the world, as a matter of fact, and as all of you know, there have been hundreds and hundreds if not thousands of articles and interviews conducted, written about the significance of these immediate,erms of midterm, longterm implications, domestic and locations, regional implications, International Implications. And for the kingdom united states. Countries that have extensive interests and special relationships with the kingdom. Although it has been a couple of that of hyperactivity at level of analysis and reporting, more questions have been raised than answers. I do not need to rea
Great social movement. He is the only american who is honored with a National Holiday in his name. So there is that uniqueness that, you know, practically everybody in the world knows the name Martin Luther king, but the question is that id like to the address right in this setting is who really was Martin Luther king. Because, one of the advantages of using a a setting like this is that we can really practice history the way it should be. It shouldnt be about names and dates that you remember. It should be about the study of the things that survive from the past. Thats why a historical site is so important, and that is why when coretta king asked me to edit the papers she understood that what in the long run were going to survive are the papers that Martin Luther king produced in his lifetime. So all of that is what i would call the legacy of Martin Luther king. And if we want to get close to who he really was, thats the best window that we have into the past. So Martin Luther king pr
He is the only american who is honored with a National Holiday in his name. So there is that uniqueness that practically everybody in the word knows the name Martin Luther king. But the question is id like to address right in this setting is who really was Martin Luther king . Because one of the advantages of using a setting like this is that we can really practice history the way it should be. It shouldnt be about names and dates that you remember. It should be about the study of the things that survive from the past. Thats why a site or historical site is so important. Thats why the king papers project, when Coretta Scott king edited Martin Luther kings paper, she understood that in the long run what would survive were the papers that Martin Luther king produced during his lifetime. So all of that is part of what i would call the legacy of Martin Luther king. And if we want to get close to who he really was, thats the best window that we have into the past. So Martin Luther king prod
This program is 50 minutes. Todays lecture will be on the magna carta. A document of great historical significance to the rule of law. The 800th anniversary of which will be two weeks from today. And we are honored and privileged to have as our lecturer, the Deputy President of the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom, the right honorable baroness hale of richmond. Let me describe a bit the historical feats that lady hale has herself accomplished. She was the only member of she was the woman. She was only member of the u. K. Supreme court to be a woman. She was the first and only woman in 1999 was the when she was appointed to the court of appeals. In 1994, she was the First High Court judge to come from a background as an academic and a Public Servant rather than as a practicing banister, although she had been called to the bar in 1969 and 1989. When she practiced law briefly in manchester, she decided that the ratio, one of six women in her class, she was the only member of that class
Significance to the rule of law. The 800th anniversary of which will be two weeks from today. And we are honored and privileged to have as our lecturer the Deputy President of the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom, the honorable, barren else of richland. The historical feats that the lady has herself accomplished. She is the first and as far as the only member of the Supreme Court to be a woman. She was the first and only longhorn that was a woman in 1999 when she was appoint to the court of appeals and only the second woman appointed to the court of appeal and privy council. She was the First High Court judge to come from an academic and serve ant. She had been called to the bar in 1969 and in 1989. When she practiced law briefly in manchester, she decided the ratio, as much as she had seen in cambridge, she was one of six women in her class. She was the only one to get a star first for exceptional distinction. She became an academic at Manchester City specializing in family law, wr