Date: Friday June 5th, 2015
Venue: Mary Eccles Room, Pembroke College
This half-day workshop will bring together and foster a network of graduate students and academics working in human rights at Oxford. The aim is to give research students the opportunity to present their work-in-progress to their peers and relevant academics and to get and give substantive feedback in a supportive environment. We hope to build stronger links amongst students working in the space of human rights law, and between students and faculty members working in this area.
The half-day workshop will consist of thematically organised panels. There is no requirement to pre-circulate any papers. Each presentation will be 15 minutes. Students at all stages of their masters or doctoral work are encouraged to participate. Oxford Law Faculty members will be chairing sessions and participating to provide research insights, suggestions and advice on the presentations.
While ideas presented at the conference do not need to be ‘fully formed’, those participants who are at a developed stage in their research will be invited to publish their papers as part of the OxHRH Working Paper Series which will be published on the OxHRH website and disseminated throughout our network.
Keynote Speaker Professor Michael Newton (Vanderbilt) Proportionality and Human Rights: An Examination of Process and Policy *Joint Event with Oxford Martin School Human Rights for Future Generations Programme)
This event will focus on the myriad meanings for the proportionality concept in contrast to the varying legal contexts within which it has been developed. The discussion will focus on the implications of the human rights framing of Proportionality, particularly in juxtaposition to the prevailing jus in bello usage. The lecture will critically examine the normative roots of proportionality within the human rights dialogue with a view towards a re-examination of its usage and utility.
Half Day Workshop Programme
OxHRH Half Day Workshop Programme
I. Keynote Address 12:00-1:30pm
Proportionality and Human Rights: An Examination of Process and Policy
Professor Michael Newton (Vanderbilt)
Lunch 1:30-1:45pm
II. Opening Remarks 1:45-2:00pm
Professor Sandra Fredman, Director of the OxHRH
Professor Alan Bogg, Director of Graduate Studies
III. Pioneering New Developments in Human Rights Law 2:00-3:00pm
Tamás Szigeti, Political hate speech: a case for exception?
Kate Mitchell, The Right of States to Regulate in the Public Interest in International Investment Law: Lessons from Human Rights Law
Helen Taylor, Developing an Analytical Framework for Evaluating Remedies for Violations of Socio-Economic Rights
Chair: :Professor Alan Bogg
IV. Protecting Human Rights During Times of Transitional Justice 3:00-3:40pm
CHEAH Wui Ling, Justice for Strangers: The Singapore War Crimes Trials, 1946-1948: Defence Participation and Fair Trial Concerns
Elana Butti, Between Legal Rights and Lived Experiences: Children in Transitional Justice
Chair: Professor Fiona de Londras
V. Equality: The Most Difficult Or Most Promising Right? 3:40-5:00pm
Catherine Briddick, Gender, Discrimination and Migration
Victoria Miyandazi, Conceptualisation, Interpretation and Application of the Concept of Equality under the Constitution of Kenya, 2010
Shreya Atrey, Intersectionality and Discrimination
Menaal Munshey, Blasphemy, Law and Violence in Pakistan
Chair: Dr Barbara Havelkova
VI. Publishing your PhD as a Book: Perspectives from Publishers 5:00pm
Natasha Flemming, Oxford University Press
Sinead Moloney, Hart Publishing
Chair: Professor Sandra Fredman
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I am a graduate student at Cambridge and would be so grateful if such events could be opened up to research students outside of the Oxford community as well. I would love to attend in the future.