Book colloquium: Human Trafficking and Slavery Reconsidered. Conceptual Limits and States’ Positive Obligations in European Law(Cambridge University Press, 2017)

PROGRAMME

17.00 – 17.15: Presentation of the book, Dr. Vladislava Stoyanova, Ragnar Söderberg Associate Senior Lecturer, Faculty of Law, Lund University, Sweden | Visiting Scholar, Bonavero Institute of Human Rights, Oxford University

17.15 – 17.35: Professor Siobhan Mullally, Established Professor of Human Rights Law and Director of the Irish Centre for Human Rights at NUI Galway. She has published widely in the fields of gender, women’s rights, migration, asylum and multiculturalism. She is currently the President of the Council of Europe anti-trafficking body, the Group of Experts on Action against Trafficking (GRETA). She is a Commissioner with the Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission, and is a member of the Permanent Court of Arbitration, The Hague. She is the founding Joint Editor-in-Chief of the Irish Yearbook of International Law (with Professor Fiona de Londras), published by Hart Bloomsbury, Oxford.

17.35 – 17.55: Alison Harvey, Barrister at No5 Barristers Chambers, former General Secretary and Legal Director of Immigration Law Practitioner’ Association (ILPA)

17.55 – 18.15: Professor Mark Freedland, Emeritus Professor of Employment Law, Oxford University

18.15 – 18.35: Gema Fernández, Managing Attorney at Women’s Link Worldwide, having litigated cases before national courts, the ECtHR, the Inter-American Court, the CEDAW Committee and the UN Committee against Torture

18.35 – 19.00: Discussion

Refreshments will be provided