Schedule
9 – 9.15 Registration
9.15 – 9.30 Welcome by Professor Aidan Berry
9.30 – 10.15 Keynote address Professor Conor Gearty
10.15 – 10.30 Coffee Break
10.30 – 11.45 Plenary Session 1
11.45 – 12.45 Parallel Session 1
12.45 -1.30 Lunch
1.30 – 2.45 Parallel Session 2
2.45 – 3.45 Plenary Session 2
3.45 – 4.00 Coffee Break
4.00 – 4.45 Keynote Address Professor Fiona de Londras
4.45 – 5.00 Closing and Presentation of Prize for best PhD student Paper by Professor Marie-Benedicte Dembour
5.00 Wine Reception
9.30 – 10.15 Keynote address: Professor Conor Gearty, London School of Economics
The Human Rights Act Should NOT be Repealed
10.15 – 10.30 Coffee Break
10.30 – 11.45 Plenary Session 1: Social and Economic Rights
Chair: Professor Conor Gearty
Dr Claire-Michelle Smyth, University of Brighton
Title: Social and Economic Rights in a Post-Neoliberal Society
Dr Paul O’Connell, Reader of Law, SOAS University of London
Title: The Crisis and the Crisis: Socio-Economic Rights in an Age of Permanent Retrogression
Dr Alice Donald, Middlesex University
Title: The Future of Social and Economic Rights in the UK: Challenges and Opportunities
11.45 – 12.45 Parallel Session 1
Group A: Criminal Law
Chair: Dr Alan Greene
Dr Richard Lang, University of Brighton
Title: What Will Become of EU Laws on the UK Statute Book after Brexit? Victim’s Rights as a Case Study
Dr Hannah Quirke, University of Manchester
Title: The Importance of Evidence in Human Rights
Gilliane Williams, University of Brighton
Title: A Dystopian Future – Secret Evidence
Group B: Human Rights in the Media
Chair: Dr David Mangan
Dr Lieve Gies, University of Leicester
Title: The UK and its Human Rights Woes as seen by the European Press
Professor David Mead, University of East Anglia
Title: Tomorrow’s Chip Paper… What do we learn about human rights from media coverage
Professor Marie-Benedicte Dembour, University of Brighton
Title: Can Protection Win in a Culture of Disbelief? Unaccompanied Minors, Age Assessment and the Benefit of Doubt
Group C: Collaborative Approaches to Human Rights
Chair: Dr David Barrett
Dr Eddie Bruce-Jones, Birkbeck University of London
Title: Human Rights and the Necessity of Fraught Collaborative Struggle
Dr Darren McStravick, Dublin City University
Title: Increasing the Rights of Stakeholders of Crime through a Restorative Approach: An Irish Solution
Rachel Pougnet, Bristol University
Title: Learning about Citizenship and Emergencies from Urgent Ruptures in French and British Citizenship Bonds
12.45 -1.30 Lunch
1.30 – 2.45 Parallel Session 2
Group D: The European Convention on Human Rights and the Human Rights Act 1998
Chair: Dr Claire-Michelle Smyth
Dr Anne Smith, Ulster University
Title: Repealing the Human Rights Act: Re-Opening the Debate on how to break the deadlock on the Northern Ireland Bill of Rights.
Dr Nuno Ferreira, University of Sussex
Title: The Dialogue between the Strasbourg Court and the UK: Going Beyond the ECHR
Michelle Coleman, Middlesex University
Title: The Sound of Silence: Brexit Provides an Opportunity to Improve Human Rights
Dr Ed Bates, Leicester University
Title: Brighton Five Years On: A Reshaping of the European Court of Human Rights?
Group E: Family, Women’s and Children’s Rights
Chair: Ms Gilliane Williams
Jo Wilding, University of Brighton
Title: The Business of Asylum
Lisa Hartigan, Voice for Choice and Mara Clarke, Abortion Support Network
Title: Abortion Rights are Human Rights
Mary O’Connor, Queens University Belfast
Title: In Legal Limbo – The Cross Border Surrogate Child
Niall Williams, Birkeck University of London
Title: Vulnerable Parents: In Times of Austerity should the State Hold Parents Responsible?
Group F: Employment Rights
Chair: Dr Richard Lang
Philipa Collins, University of Oxford
Title: How Can Legal Mechanisms Best Protect the Human Rights Of Workers against Interference by the Employer?
Dr David Mangan, City University London
Title: The Freedom of Speech in Employment
Charles Barrow, University of Brighton
Title: The Trade Union Act 2016 and Balloting for Industrial Action: is the further restriction of the Right to Strike a flagrant violation of European Convention Standards?
2.45 – 3.45 Plenary Session 2: State Control and Counter Terrorism
Chair: Prof Fiona de Londras
Dr Alan Greene, Durham Law School
Title: The Future of Human Rights in a Culture of Control
Dr Lindsey Bell, Royal Holloway University of London and Steven Greer, University of Bristol
Title: Human Rights and Counter Terrorism in British Universities
Dr David Barrett, Nottingham Law School
Title: The Anti-Radicalisation Prevention Duty and the Right to Education: Reconciling the Irreconcilable.
3.45 – 4.00 Coffee Break
4.00 – 4.45 Keynote Address: Professor Fiona de Londras
Is there a Rule of Law Crisis in Europe?
4.45 – 5.00 Closing and Presentation of Prize for best PhD Student Paper by Professor Marie-Benedicte Dembour