HRLC welcomes Summer School participants

As HRLC’s Summer School on the Rights of the Child kicks off,  we would like to extend a warm welcome to all our participants and guests speakers. 

Throughout the programme participants will be examining international and regional child rights law, including the work of the international courts and treaty monitoring bodies mandated to consider violations of the rights of the child. 

The programme’s faculty consists of leading scholars and experts in children’s rights and includes: 

• Professor Aoife Nolan, Professor of International Human Rights Law and Head of HRLC’s ESR Unit, University of Nottingham
• Professor Kirsten Sandberg, Rapporteur of the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child and Professor in the Department of Public International Law at the University of Oslo
• Professor Helen Stalford, Director of the European Children’s Rights Unit, Liverpool Law School, University of Liverpool
• Dr Jason Pobjoy, Research Associate, Refugee Law Centre, University of Oxford, and Barrister, Blackstone Chambers, London
• Professor Laura Lundy, Director of the Children's Rights Centre, Queen's University, Belfast
• Lisa Myers, Consultant, former Director of Child Rights Connect
• Professor Matthew Happold, Professor of Public International Law, University of Luxembourg
• Dr Najat M’jid, former UN Special Rapporteur on the sale of children, child prostitution and child pornography and International child rights expert
• Patrick Geary, Children's Rights & Business Specialist, United Nations (UNICEF) Geneva
• Professor Ralph Sandland, Professor of Law and Difference, University of Nottingham
• Professor Helen Stalford, Professor of Law, Liverpool Law School
• Veronica Yates, Director, Child Rights International Network (CRIN) 

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