Castan Centre - Human Rights Law Conference

07/22/2022 09:00 am 07/22/2022 05:00 pm Australia/Melbourne Castan Centre - Human Rights Law Conference

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The annual Castan Centre conference is the leading human rights conference in Australia, providing a vital health check on the state of human rights in Australia and overseas.

Please join us via Zoom Webinar as this year the conference covers a range of topics including:

  • Bills of rights
  • Current issues and challenges in human rights law
  • Human rights in mental health law and services.
  • Intersection of international human rights and international criminal law
  • Feminist perspectives on the law
  • Developments in discrimination law in Australia
  • New developments in the case law of international human rights bodies relating to human rights law

Key Speakers

  • The Hon Pamela Tate SC, former Justice of the Court of Appeal of the Supreme Court of Victoria
  • Professor Yuval Shany, Hersch Lauterpacht Chair in Public International law, Hebrew University, former Chair of the United Nations Human Rights Committee
  • Emeritus Professor Bernadette McSherry, Melbourne Law School and Commissioner of the Victorian Law Reform Commission
  • Professor Beth Gaze, Melbourne Law School

Event Details

Date:
22 July 2022 at 9:00 am – 5:00 pm
Venue:
Online

Description

To watch this past event, click play on the video below:

The annual Castan Centre conference is the leading human rights conference in Australia, providing a vital health check on the state of human rights in Australia and overseas.

Please join us via Zoom Webinar as this year the conference covers a range of topics including:

  • Bills of rights
  • Current issues and challenges in human rights law
  • Human rights in mental health law and services.
  • Intersection of international human rights and international criminal law
  • Feminist perspectives on the law
  • Developments in discrimination law in Australia
  • New developments in the case law of international human rights bodies relating to human rights law

Key Speakers

  • The Hon Pamela Tate SC, former Justice of the Court of Appeal of the Supreme Court of Victoria
  • Professor Yuval Shany, Hersch Lauterpacht Chair in Public International law, Hebrew University, former Chair of the United Nations Human Rights Committee
  • Emeritus Professor Bernadette McSherry, Melbourne Law School and Commissioner of the Victorian Law Reform Commission
  • Professor Beth Gaze, Melbourne Law School

Name
Monash Law Events Team
E-Mail
law-engagement@monash.edu