About this Event
What is the relationship between the law and social justice?
Can the law be used to advance equality, or does the law reproduce inequality?
This year’s inaugural Glasgow Open Justice Lecture 2026-27 will be delivered by Kehinde Adeogun, Director of Legal Services and Policy at the Black Equity Organisation (BEO), in conversation with Jen Ang, Professor in Practice at the GO Justice Centre at the University of Glasgow’s School of Law.
Kehinde will share insights about ground-breaking strategic litigation that BEO has been involved in, ranging from bringing a claim, acting as an intervenor or providing witness evidence in various legal challenges, including a legal challenge against the Ministry of Justice’s tagging programme for ex-offenders, as well as a case challenging the permanent exclusion of a young Black boy from education who had been exploited into a county line gang.
Together, Jen and Kehinde will explore the challenges that arise in using strategic litigation in defence of human rights, and in pursuit of social justice – as well as challenges that litigants face in accessing justice.
Finally, in celebration of the 25th Anniversary of Pro Bono Week, we will conclude by exploring the contribution of pro bono programmes – from university law clinics to partnerships with private law firms – can make to the pursuit of access to justice for all.
The lecture will be held at the Charles Wilson Lecture Theatre.
SPEAKERS
Kehinde Adeogun is the Director of Legal Services and Policy at the Black Equity Organisation (BEO), a civil rights charity that uses the law to challenge systemic racism.
She is a solicitor who has always practiced in the not-for-profit sector, specialising in social welfare law. She is a firm believer that access to justice should not depend on an individual’s ability to pay. That all the tools of the legal system, in conjunction with campaigning, should be utilised to work with marginalised communities that are all too often left behind.
Jen Ang is Founding Director of Lawmanity, a project that tackles inequalities in the law by working with people-led movements for positive change. She previously founded JustRight Scotland, a charity that uses the law to defend and extend people’s rights, providing free legal advice to thousands of people in Scotland every year. Jen is a legal expert on immigration and asylum, violence against women and girls and the rights of survivors of torture and trafficking.
She is also Professor in Practice at the Glasgow Open Justice Centre at the University of Glasgow School of Law, and believes in making legal education open and accessible to all.
Event venue & nearby stays
Sir Charles Wilson Lecture Theatre, University of Glasgow, 3 Kelvin Way, Glasgow, United Kingdom
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