# The Misrule of Law

- Institution: Gresham College
- Speaker: Professor Thomas Grant KC
- Year: 2021
- Level: For everyone
- Language: English
- Subjects: Law
- Source: [Gresham College](https://www.gresham.ac.uk/watch-now/series/misrule-law)
- Licence: [Educational use (Gresham College's terms)](https://www.gresham.ac.uk/terms-and-conditions)
- Who can watch: Teens profiles and older (sources give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the source's own words)

The law has been used to impose religious and moral conformity and uniformity of thought at many times in history, perhaps most (in)famously in the trial of Socrates and the heresy trials of Giordano Bruno and Galileo. More recently the obscenity laws and equality legislation have challenged the limits of free speech. This lecture will explore how law has been used to respond to and try to delimit the expression of unpopular or challenging ideas.

## Lectures

1. [Free Thinking and the Rule of Law](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/gresham/series-misrule-law/867e6fa7914b) (YouTube)
2. [Terror and the Rule of Law](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/gresham/series-misrule-law/a0315fc65247) (YouTube)
3. [Segregation and the Rule of Law](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/gresham/series-misrule-law/19e253d92690) (YouTube)