# Guantánamo on the Euphrates? Syria in a Time of Opportunity - Clive Stafford Smith

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Published: 2026-04-10T15:00:00+00:00
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This lecture was recorded by Stafford Smith on the 19th of March 2026 at Barnard’s Inn Hall, London Clive Stafford Smith JD OBE is a dual UK-US national, the founder and director of the Justice League, a non-profit human rights training centre focused on fostering the next generation of advocates. He was the Senior Prefect at Radley College, where he studied maths and science; then a Morehead Scholar at the University of North Carolina (Chapel Hill), where he took a degree in Po...

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