Raymond Plant, Baron Plant of Highfield

Raymond Plant, Baron Plant of Highfield FKC (born March 19, 1945 ) is a British Labor Party politician , life peer in the British House of Lords and a university professor of law and political philosophy .

life and career

Plant attended the Havelock School in Grimsby and King's College London until he went to the University of Hull in 1966 . He currently teaches as Professor of Law and Political Philosophy at King's College London and Professor of Divinity at Gresham College , having worked as a Masters at St Catherine's College (Oxford) from 1994 to 2000 . He is an honorary member of Harris Manchester College (Oxford). Before moving to Oxford, he was Professor of European Politics at the University of Southampton ; prior to that he was a lecturer in philosophy at the University of Manchester .

In 1992 he was promoted to Life Peer as Baron Plant of Highfield , of Weelsby in the County of Humberside, and has been a member of the House of Lords since then.

Plant was a member of the Nuffield Council on Bioethics from 2004 to 2007, which deals with bioethical issues. In the House of Lords he is a member of a committee on human rights. He is a member of the government and is working on a bill in the subcommittee of the Committee on the European Communities. He is the author of several books on political philosophy; he is also a canon in Winchester Cathedral .

Web links

• Mr Raymond Plant at Hansard (English)
• Raymond Plant, board member of the Oxford Foundation for Law, Justice and Society

Individual evidence

1. ↑ gresham.ac.uk
2. ↑ kcl.ac.uk
3. ↑ fljs.org ( Memento of the original from July 24, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.