Oxford Human Rights Hub: Workshop for Human Rights MPhil and DPhil Students
Venue: Mary Hyde Eccles Room, Pembroke College
Date: June 3rd, 2016
Time: 2:30pm-6pm
The Oxford Human Rights Hub is pleased to announce its second workshop for human rights MPhil and DPhil students at Oxford University. This half-day workshop will bring together and foster a network of graduate students and academics in various disciplines working in human rights at Oxford. The aim is to come together as a community to explore current developments, to analyse existing weakness and to attempt to point towards future improvements in the way in which human rights can address current legal and social problems.
Workshop Programme
Opening Remarks
Professor Sandra Fredman, Director of the Oxford Human Rights Hub
Professor Alan Bogg, Director of Graduate Studies, Oxford Law Faculty
Human Rights on the International Stage
Kalina Arabadjieva, ‘The “Integrated Approach to Interpretation” of the European Convention on Human Rights’
Discussant: Professor Mark Freedland
Patricia Kwast, ‘Wrongful Non-Co-operation in International Law’
Discussant: Dr Eirik Bjorge
Thiago Alves Pinto, ‘A brief historical analysis of laws concerning offence to religious belief’
Discussant: Professor Mark Janis
Chair: Professor Sandra Fredman
Domestic Developments in Human Rights
Helen Taylor, ‘Scoping the exercise of remedial powers for enforcing the state’s positive duties’
Discussant: Dr Miles Jackson
Achas Burin, ‘Positive Duties of Prevention in the Common Law and the Convention’
Discussant: Professor Alan Bogg
Max Harris, ‘The So-Called Third Source of Executive Power: Precedents and Principles?
Discussant: Professor Timothy Endicott
Chair: Dr Meghan Campbell
Publishing your PhD as a Book: Perspectives from Publishers
Sinead Moloney, Hart Publishing
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