Plenary Lectures
A full list of the plenary lectures, including abstracts and biographies, is available here.
Dignity: An Equality Analysis
Monday 8 July, 09.00-10.00, KKL
Catharine A. MacKinnon
Elizabeth A. Long Professor of Law, Michigan Law & James Barr Ames Visiting Professor of Law at Harvard Law School
Photo: Gal Hermoni/Lady Globus 2017
Human Rights Overreach
Monday 8 July, 10.30-11.30, KKL
John Tasioulas
Chair of Politics, Philosophy and Law and Director of the Yeoh Tiong Lay Centre for Politics, Philosophy and Law, King’s College London
The Islamic View of Humanity
Tuesday 9 July, 09.00-10.00, HS 1
Azizah Y. al-Hibri
Professor Emerita of Law, Richmond School of Law & Founder and Chair, KARAMAH: Muslim Women Lawyers for Human Rights
The Future of Human Rights: An Ecological - Experimentalist Approach
Cancelled
César Rodríguez-Garavito
Executive Director of the Center for Law, Justice, and Society (Dejusticia), University of the Andes, Colombia
Rescuing Human Rights: Challenges of Identity and Pluralism in an Age of Globalisation
Thursday 11 July, 09.00-10.00, HS 1
Neus Torbisco-Casals
Visiting Professor in International Law & Senior Research Fellow, Hirschman Centre for Democracy, Graduate Institute, Geneva
Natural Law, Cognitive Science and Human Rights
Thursday 11 July, 10.30-11.30, HS 1
John Mikhail
Agnes N. Williams Research Professor, Georgetown Law
Photo: Georgetown Law/Sam Hollenshead
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Diversity: Importance and Relevance
Friday 12 July, 09.00-10.00, HS 1
Yoshiki Wakamatsu
Professor of Law, Gakushuin University, Toshima, Tokyo
Human Dignity: Challenges, Controversies and Promise
Friday 12 July, 10.30-11.30, HS 1
Heiner Bielefeldt
Professor of Human Rights & Human Rights Policy, University of Erlangen-Nuremberg and former UN Special Rapporteur on Freedom of Religion or Belief (2010-16)
Photo: Harald Sippel
Human Dignity: Challenges, Controversies and Promise
Friday 12 July, 10.30-11.30, HS 1
Peter Schaber
Professor of Applied Ethics, University of Zurich
Human Dignity: Challenges, Controversies and Promise
Friday 12 July, 10.30-11.30, HS 1
Simone Zurbuchen
Professor of Modern and Contemporary Philosophy, University of Lausanne
Replacing the Persecution Condition for Refugeehood
Tuesday 9 July, 10.30-11.30, HS 1
Eilidh Beaton
University of Pennsylvania