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Speakers

 

Chris Sidoti
 

The International Human Rights Law Short Course programme speakers are carefully selected to include a balance of experts, practitioners and academics or researchers, many of whom work in practice and in academia, providing insight, practitioner experience and theoretical insight into the subjects they teach: their hands-on experience provides a unique environment for exchange and dialogue.

Human Rights Law Centre Trainers

  • Professor David Harris, HRLC Co-Chair
  • Professor Michael O'Flaherty, HRLC Co-Chair
  • Carla Buckley, Research Associate
  • Daria Davitti, PhD Candidate and former UNAMA Human Rights Officer.
 

 

School of Law Trainers

  • Professor Peter Bartlett, Professor of Mental Health Law and Project Director, Lesotho
  • Professor Alastair Mowbray, Professor of Public Law
  • Professor Therese Murphy, Professor of Law and Critical Theory
  • Professor Paul Roberts, Professor of Criminal Jurisprudence
  • Professor Dirk Van Zyl Smit, Professor of Comparative and International Penal Law
  • Professor Jeff Kenner, Professor of European Law
  • Professor Vanessa Munro, Professor of Socio-Legal Studies
  • Professor Noel Whitty, Professor of Human Rights Law

 

  • Professor Mary Footer, Professor of International Economic Law
  • Professor Nigel White, Professor of Public International Law
  • Dino Kritsiotis, Chair in Public International Law
  • Dr Olympia Bekou, Associate Professor and Head of International Criminal Justice Unit
  • Ralph Sandland, Associate Professor
  • Sandesh Sivakumaran, Lecturer in Law 
  • Sangeeta Shah, Lecturer in Law.

 

 

 

 

Guest Speakers

In addition to regular Short Course speakers and trainers, a number of high profile, international experts and practitioners will hold seminars and workshops. In recent programmes guest speakers have included:

  • Daniel Carey, Public Interest Lawyers, London
  • Professor Brice Dickson, Queens University, Belfast
  • Helen Duffy, INTERIGHTS
  • Hina Jilani, Special Representative for Human Rights Defenders
  • Morten Kjaerum, Director, FRA, Vienna
  • Manfred Nowak, UN Special Rapporteur on Torture
  • Bertie Ramcharan, former Acting UN Human Rights Commissioner

 

  • Dan Saxon, Senior Prosecuting Attorney, ICTY
  • Professor William Schabas, Director of Irish Centre for Human Rights, University of Galway
  • Rabinder Singh QC
  • Mervat Rishmawi, Amnesty International
  • Professor George Ulrich, Rector, Riga Graduate School of Law, Lativa
  • Chris Sidoti, Former Director of International Service for Human Rights, Geneva and Australian Human Rights Commissioner (pictured above)

 

 

 

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