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10th Anniversary of the Master of Laws in Human Rights Programme, Faculty of Law

09 Mar 2010

 

To celebrate the 10th Anniversary of the Master of Laws in Human Rights Programme, the Faculty of Law is organizing the following activities:

Public Lecture "Re-thinking Foundations of Human Rights in a Fragmented World"

Mr Denis Chang, SC

Date:  12 March 2010 (Friday)  

Time:  6:30 - 7:30 pm (Cocktail Reception starts at 5:30pm)

Venue:  Council Chamber, 8/F Meng Wah Complex, The University of Hong Kong

Symposium "Alternative Visions of Human Rights"

Date:  13 March 2010 (Saturday)

Time:  9:30 am - 5:30 pm

Venue:  Council Chamber, 8/F Meng Wah Complex, The University of Hong Kong

Speakers:

"Human Rights, Private Conscience and the Role of the United Nations"  - Professor Anne Orford, Melbourne Law School

"Is Dignity a Fundamental Constitutional Right?" - Professor Otto Pfersmann, University of Paris I Pantheon-Sorbonne.

"From Governance of Others to Care of the Self -  Spirituality Opposed to Knowledge in Foucault's Later Thought, Implications for Visions of Human Rights" - Professor Tony Carty, The University of Hong Kong

"Responsibility for Patterned Human Rights Violations" - Professor Brooke Ackerly, Political Science at Vanderbilt University

Dinner and Keynote address "The Human Condition and the Role of Law"

Professor Philip Allott, Cambridge University

Date:  13 March 2010 (Saturday)          

Time:  7:00 p.m.

Venue:  Club Lusitano, 27/F (Dinning Room), 16 Ice House Street, Central

Members of the media are cordially invited to attend. For enquiries, please contact Ms Lydia Bute (Tel: 2219 4323; Email: lbute@hku.hk ) of the Faculty of Law.