November Conference
During the Autumn term, the Human Rights Law Centre hosts a conference which brings together leading practitioners, academics, researchers and civil society, to consider a key contemporary challenge facing the practice of human rights law or criminal justice, within national, regional or international systems.
The November conference will not be held in 2009.
2008 - The European Convention on Human Rights: Current Issues
2007 – The International Criminal Court and the State
2006 - The European Convention on Human Rights: Current Issues
In November 2008, with the generous support of the Council of Europe, the Human Rights Law Centre European Human Rights Law Unit hosted a one-day conference on current issues relating to the European Convention on Human Rights. More than 100 scholars, experts and students from 15 institutions came together to discuss current challenges to the European Convention system.
The event covered issues such as terrorism, Russia and Islam in relation to the European Convention on Human Rights as well as questions relating to the jurisdiction of the Court and its approach to overruling its own precedents.
Speakers
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Egbert Myjer, Judge of the European Court of Human Rights - Terrorism and the European Convention on Human Rights
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Marko Milanovic, University of Cambridge and formerly Associate, Belgrade Centre for Human Rights - The Behrami Case: Questions of Jurisdiction and Attribution for UN Action in Kosovo
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Sergei Golubok, Lawyer, European Court of Human Rights Registry - Russian Cases before the European Court of Human Rights
The Conference programme is available as Word or PDF.
Profiles of speakers are available here.
In collaboration with the University of Nottingham Methods and Data Institute, the International Criminal Justice Unit organised an international conference 'The International Criminal Court and the State’. The Conference brought together 150 students, academics, and other interested parties from around Europe.
HRLC is the Outsourcing Partner of the International Criminal Court Legal Tools Project with responsibility for the design, creation and maintenance of the National Implementing Legislation Database (NILD). Through NILD, we work to provide electronic legal services to aid the investigation, prosecution and defence of core international crimes by developing a dynamic, fully searchable database of national implementing legislation of the ICC Rome Statute.
The conference set the Legal Tools Project in the context of the role of the State in the ICC system, bringing together each of the Legal Tools Outsourcing Partners. It was the concluding event of International Criminal Justice Week (5th-9th November), a campus-based festival which aimed to bring attention to the practice of international criminal justice.
A range of panel sessions addressed these issues:
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The ICC in Practice: Challenges and Prospects
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Justice on the Ground: The ICC, the State and the use of new technologies
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Future Focus: The ICC Legal Tools Project
Speakers
Following the conference, a meeting of the Legal Tools Outsourcing Partners was held, where the Legal Tools Outsourcing Partners Network was formed.
The conference programme is available here. The conference poster is available here.
In November 2006, with the generous support of the Council of Europe, the Centre hosted a one-day conference on current issues facing the European Convention System. The Conference was well attended by over 100 academics, practitioners and students, highlighting and addressing new challenges facing the European Convention system.
Speakers
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Judge Lech Garlicki, Judge of the European Court of Human Rights - Reform of the European Court of Human Rights: Latest Developments
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Professor Conor Gearty, Rausing Director of the Centre for Study of Human Rights and Professor of Human Rights Law, London School of Economics - Terrorism and the European Court of Human Rights
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Catherine Costello, Senior Research Fellow, Worcester College, University of Oxford - State Responsibility under the ECHR: the Bosphorus Case
The conference programme is available as word or pdf file.