The Most Rev. Vincent Nichols has been Archbishop of Westminster and President of the Roman Catholic Bishop's Conference for England and Wales since 2009.

The following is the transcript of a lecture given by the Archbishop at the Thomas More Institute on 7 December 2011.

Dr. Fassati is a graduate in Medicine from the University of Milan, Italy, and is a board-certified neurologist. He obtained a PhD from UMDS Guyʼs Hospital, London, and was awarded a Wellcome Trust Prize International Fellowship to work at Columbia University, New York, where he specialised in virology. He returned to the UK and was awarded a Wellcome Trust University Award at University College London (UCL). He is now Reader in Cellular and Molecular Virology and the Director of the Wohl Virion Centre at UCL. His main interests are Retroviruses and transmissible cancers. Dr. Fassati is an Associate Editor of the journal Retrovirology and a faculty member of Faculty1000 Medicine.

The following is the transcript of a seminar paper given by Dr. Ariberto Fassati at the Thomas More Institute on 12 October 2011.

The Rt. Rev. Michael Nazir-Ali had his early education in Pakistan where he has a family background that is both Christian and Muslim. He holds British and Pakistani citizenships. His university education was received at Karachi, Cambridge and Oxford, and he has taught theology at university level in both countries. In Pakistan he served as an Anglican parish priest, as Provost of Lahore Cathedral, and as first Bishop of Raiwind. From 1994 until his resignation in 1999 he was Bishop of Rochester, the first non-white diocesan bishop in the Church of England. He has published widely and spoken often on themes related to faith and public policy, and he has been untiring in pointing out the importance of the Judaeo-Christian tradition to the future of the West. He is besides a poet in both English and Persian.

The following is the transcript of a seminar paper given by the Rt. Rev. Michael Nazir Ali at the Thomas More Institute on 6 April 2011

Francis Davis is a UK ministerial policy Adviser on the ‘Big Society’, having previously been Adviser to the former Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government. He is a Visiting Fellow in Civic Innovation at the Helen Suzman Foundation, Johannesburg, South Africa.

Transcript coming soon.

Dr. Jaqueline Laing is Director of Juris, a forum for jurisprudential discussion at London Metropolitan University where she teaches Jurisprudence and Criminal Law. She took her doctorate in Jurisprudence at the University of Oxford, after studying philosophy and law at the Australian National University. She has taught at Oxford, briefly at the Open University, and at Melbourne. She practised law as a Crown Prosecutor and as Associate to Justice of the Supreme Court of the Australian Capital Territory and Federal Court of Australia. She has contributed to numerous broadcast discussions on medical law and ethics. Her publications include Human Lives: Critical Essays on Consequentialist Bioethics, and articles in academic journals, both legal and philosophical. Founder of Juris at City Campus, she helped organise the Juris inaugural conference ‘Disability Matters: Exploring Contemporary Disability and Welfare Issues’, and ‘Life and Death Matters: Disability Rights and Incapacity’ at London Metropolitan University.

Jaqueline Laing gave a seminar at the Thomas More Institute on 26 September 2010. The following is a paper by her published earlier on the same topic.

Seminar held on 30 June 2010

Dr. Robin Harris, C.B.E., is a former adviser to Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher. He is now a free lance journalist and policy analyst, consultant director of Politeia (London) and Visiting Fellow of the Heritage Foundation (Washington, D.C.). He is also the author of Dubrovnik - A History, and was awarded the Order of the Croatian Morning Star for cultural services by the President of Croatia in 2008.

Seminar held on 26 May 2010

Dr. Michael Platt is Senior Consultant and Honorary Senior Lecturer in Pain Medicine and Anaesthetics at Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust, and practises in the area of Pain Medicine and Palliative Care.

Seminar held on 28 April 2010