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Applications are open for Kathleen Fitzpatrick Visiting Fellowships in Comparative Constitutional Law in 2019

admin 19th July 2018

Professor Adrienne Stone is the holder of a Kathleen Fitzpatrick Australian Laureate Fellowship awarded by the Australian Research Council from 2016 – 2021. The purpose of the award is to establish a world-class, capacity building centre for comparative constitutional law at Melbourne Law School known as the Laureate Program in Comparative Constitutional Law.  Further, recipients of the award are funded to […]

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University of Bristol celebrates launch of new Centre for Law at Work

admin 13th July 2018

On 28 June the University of Bristol’s Law School celebrated the formal launch of its Centre for Law at Work. Supported by internationally acclaimed academics, the Centre establishes Bristol as a centre of excellence in employment and labour law, and corporate governance. The launch celebration followed the Centre’s inaugural workshop event, Criminality at Work, the […]

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Tickets Available for The Development of Abortion Rights in a Changing Europe

admin 10th July 2018

This conference will explore what human rights law has to say on the issue of abortion in 2018. The provision of abortion services for women, including the extent to which one can consider abortion a “right”, is one of the foremost human rights issues facing citizens of the United Kingdom and Ireland, and across Europe, […]

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Call for Papers Young Scholars Forum Melbourne Institute of Comparative Constitutional Law

admin 5th July 2018

The Melbourne Institute of Comparative Constitutional Law (Institute) is an initiative of the Laureate Program in Comparative Constitutional Law, which is the program funded by the Australian Research Council for 2017-2022 which will convene annually in Melbourne for five years. The Laureate Program is based at Melbourne Law School which is also home to a large group of comparative constitutional law scholars […]

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Just For Kids Law Releases Animation Series Explaining Strategic Litigation

Kira Allmann 3rd July 2018

The principal findings of Open Society Justice Initiative on Insights from Global Experience of Strategic Litigation Impacts state; ‘If the arsenal for defending human rights globally is made up of diverse swords and shields, one of the most effective – and controversial – is strategic humans rights litigation. Just for Kids law, a UK based […]

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Legal Research Intern Position at the Advice on Individual Rights in Europe Centre

admin 2nd July 2018

Job Type: Legal Research Intern Days per week: 4 days a week with one ‘work from home’ day Duration: 4 Months Start date: 3 September 2018 Job Description: The Intern will be based within the Western Balkans team, working on rule of law and capacity building projects implemented in the region; in particular, there will […]

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Animated Films of UN Treaty Body Rights

admin 26th June 2018

In October 2017, Wired Video began work on a project for the Office of the High Commission for Human Rights for launch in Spring 2018. Although people have a vague idea that they have human rights, they seemed ignorant of the role of the Human Rights Treaties and Treaty Bodies that oblige governments to respect […]

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The International Center for the Promotion of Human Rights Course: Human Rights, Investigation, Fact-Finding, Documenting and Montioring

admin 18th June 2018

The International Center for the Promotion of Human Rights (CIPDH-UNESCO) presents the second edition of its International Course on Human Rights. The central topic of this course will be: “Human Rights Investigation. Fact-finding, documenting and monitoring” and will be held at the UNESCO Observatory Villa Ocampo in Buenos Aires, Argentina, from 29 October to 2nd November 2018. This international course intends […]

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