Schedule
9.00 – 9.15 Registration
9.15 – 9.30 Welcome by Professor Toni Hilton
9.30 – 10.15 Keynote address Professor Helen Fenwick
10.15 – 10.30 Coffee Break
10.30 – 11.30 Parallel Session 1
11.30 – 12.45 Parallel Session 2
12.45 -1.30 Lunch
1.30 – 2.30 Parallel Session 3
2.45 – 4.00 Parallel Session 4
4.00 – 4.15 Coffee Break
4.15 – 5.00 Keynote Address Professor Paul Hunt
5.00 Closing, Presentation of Best PhD Paper and Wine Reception
9.30 – 10.15 Keynote address:
Professor Helen Fenwick, University of Durham
Title: Terrorism and the Control Orders / TPIMs saga as a vindication of the Human Rights Act.
10.15 – 10.30 Coffee Break
10.30 – 11.30 Parallel Session 1
Group A: Realising Human Rights: Actors and Roles
Room:
Chair: Dr Darren McStravick
Dr David Barrett, University of Exeter: Creating a Futile Environment for the Growth of New Modes of Human Rights Enforcement
Dr Azadeh Chalabi, University of Liverpool: Four Value Orientations Inhibiting the Realisation of Human Rights
Richard Heald, BPP University: A Future for Common Law Constitutional Rights
Dr Claire-Michelle Smyth, University of Brighton: Repealed the Eighth: Women’s Battle for Bodily Autonomy in Ireland and the power of the grass roots movement
Group B: Socio Economic Rights: Health, Housing and Family Rights
Room:
Chair: Dr Jack Thompson
Luke Graham, Lancaster University: Using a Human Rights Framework to Tackle Destitution.
Dr Claire Lougarre, University of Southampton: Refugees’ and asylum seekers’ access to mental healthcare in the UK: From Human rights monitoring to human rights implementation
Dr Katya Alkhateeb, University of Essex: Human Enhancement Drugs in the Military and Protection of Soldier’s Rights in Armed Conflict
Mary O’Connor, Queens University Belfast: Article 8, Family Life and International Surrogacy
11.30 – 12.45 Parallel Session 2
Group C:Human Rights, Criminal Law and Criminal Justice
Room:
Chair:
Sara Birch, University of Brighton: Stripped of Citizenship and Facing the Death Penalty: The Legitimacy of Executive Measures in post 9/11 UK.
Lewis Graham, University of Cambridge: Closed Trials and secret evidence in the United Kingdom: Three worrying trends for human rights
Dr Darren McStravick, Kingston University: Victim’s rights and victim’s wrongs: how police led restorative justice processes are tackling the problem of victim disengagement
Sarah Field, University of Brighton: Corporate Manslaughter and Human Rights: Plus ca change?
Dr Kay Vaughan, Swansea University: Terrorism, the law, and the potential new ‘normal’ diminished rights protection
Group D: Theoretical and Philosophical Approaches to Human Rights
Room:
Chair: Dr Richard Lang
Dr Mark Devenney, University of Brighton: Human Rights after Personhood
Chris Griffin, University of Brighton: The right not to have rights, dispossession in fiction and philosophy
Viktoria Huegel, University of Brighton: Appropriating Human Rights, Arendt and Ranciere
Dr Clare Woodford, University of Brighton: The Language of the Birds: human rights, authority and democratic law
Pam Laidman, University of Brighton: Human Rights and protective paternalism for those on the fringes
12.45 -1.30 Lunch
1.30 – 2.30 Parallel Session 3
Group E:
Human Rights in the Domestic Context
Room:
Chair:
Preethi Lolaksha Nagaveni, Lancaster University: A Livelihood with No Life
Anit Anand, Lancaster University: Honour Killings and Structural Violence in India
Hasret Cetinkaya, NUI Galway: Human Rights at its Limits: Sexual Property in Kurdish Culture
Gift Sotonye-Frank, Queens University Belfast: Gender stereotyping under Article 10(c) CEDAW and the Challenges of Exclusion policies and practices against Adolescent Pregnant School Girls in Sub Saharan Africa
Group F: Human Rights, Business and Technology
Room:
Chair: Dr Claire-Michelle Smyth
Luis F Yanes, University of Essex: Investment and Human Rights: Mutually Supportive or Equally Destructive
Steven S Nam J.D, University of Stanford: The Decentralisation of Human Rights
Mary Cosgrove, NUI Galway: Tax Sovereignty v Economic, Social and Cultural Rights: A new battleground for an old conflict.
Sinead Hall, In House-Lawyer: The Evolving Role of Business in Human Rights and Human Rights in Business
2.45 – 4.00 Parallel Session 4
Group G: Enforcement of Human Rights: Compliance with International and Regional Bodies
Room:
Chair: Dr David Barrett
Clarissa Valli Buttow, University of Lausanne: Human Rights, Due Diligence and the Exercise of Extraterritorial Jurisdiction
Maria Delia Sanchez del Angel, University of Essex: International Human Rights Adjudication: Are we facing the challenges but sacrificing justice?
Dr Patricia Palacios Zuloaga, University of Essex: Judging Human Rights: The Riddle of Compliance with the Inter-American Court of Human Rights
Samira Allioui, University of Strasbourg: New Public Management Within Regional Human Rights Courts: A Response to Budgetary Challenges?
Dr Narissa Ramsundar, Canterbury Christ Church: Human Rights in the Context of International Criminal Justice: The ICC Case Study
Group H: Human Rights and The European Union
Room:
Chair: Sarah Field
Dr Johanna Hoekstra and Dr Olga Martin Ortega, University of Greenwich: Non Financial Reporting and Human Rights: Assessing the EU and National Normative Developments
Aleydis Nissen, Cardiff University: The European Union as a manager of global ‘Business and Human Rights’ regulation: County by Country Reporting Rules
Dr Michelle Coleman, Middlesex University: Stretching the Golden Thread: The Impact of Brexit on the Presumption of Innocence
Dr Ozgur H Cinar, BPP University: A journey into the unknown: Brexit and the implications for the freedom of religion and belief in the UK
Dr Richard Lang, University of Brighton: People get ready! The European Union (Withdrawal) Act and the incorporation of EU Law into UK Law
4.00-4.15 Coffee Break
4.15-5.00 Keynote Address
Professor Paul Hunt, University of Essex
Title: Refreshing human rights for the modern times: the role of emancipatory social rights
5.00 Conference closing: Wine reception
