*It is 2000, and the Human Rights Act 1998 is about to have full effect. The Law Society have warned all solicitors in England and Wales that the legislation will have a profound impact and it would be negligent not to know about it. And so in a conference room of an international law firm, hardened corporate and commercial lawyers are about to find out about the law of human rights. And he talks about how the rule of law can bind the powerful, as well as the powerless. Perhaps constitutional law – including the law of human rights and civil liberties – should be boring, not exciting.