Events during the past year

OxHRH hosts a termly seminar series and an annual conference. We also publicise other human rights events in Oxford. Click here for photographs from our events.

Audio recordings of a number of our seminars are available.
A download link is shown in the listing for the item below, and on the media files page.

[As this is a list of events which have already happened, some links may no longer work as expected.]

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May 2013

Friday 24 May 2013

Public Law Discussion Group A Panel on Dignity in Law: Postponed
Speaker: Dr Justine Pila, Dr Alan Bogg, and Dr Tarun Khaitan, Oxford Law Faculty
Oxford Law Faculty Senior Common Room at 12:30

Monday 20 May

Public Law Discussion Group Selective Conscientious Objection: Philosophical and Conceptual Doubts in Light of Israeli Case Law: Cancelled
Speaker: Dr Yossi Nehushtan, Haim Striks Law School, Keele Law School
Oxford Law Faculty Senior Common Room at 12:30

Wednesday 15 May

Oxford Human Rights Hub Seminar Series South Africa's Constitutional Court: Battling populist political pressure: Speaker: Hugh Corder, Professor of Public Law, University of Cape Town
Oxford Law Faculty The Cube at 13:00
A podcast of this talk is available.

Friday 3 May

Oxford Human Rights Hub Seminar Series Migration detention policies as an obstacle to the realisation of migrants’ human rights: Speaker: Professor Francois Crepeau, United Nations Special Rapporteur on the Human Rights of Migrant, Hans & Tamar Oppenheimer Professor in Public International Law Faculty of Law, McGill University
Oxford Law Faculty SCR at 13:00

Migration Law Discussion Group Migration detention policies as an obstacle to the realisation of migrants’ human rights: Speaker: Professor Francois Crepeau, United Nations Special Rapporteur on the Human Rights of Migrant
Oxford Law Faculty Law Faculty SCR at 13:00

April 2013

Friday 26 April

Oxford Human Rights Hub Seminar Series Responses to collective religious hatred: Elements of a human rights-based coping strategy: Speaker: Professor Heiner Bielefeldt, Professor of Human Rights and Human Rights Policy at the University of Erlangen and United Nations Special Rapporteur on Freedom of Religion or Belief
Oxford Law Faculty Law Faculty SCR at 13:00
A podcast of this talk is available.

March 2013

Wednesday 13 March

Oxford Human Rights Hub Religion, Equality and Discrimination: Change of date
Speaker: Aileen McColgan, King's College London and Matrix Chambers
Oxford Law Faculty The Cube at 13:00
A podcast of this talk is available.

Thursday 7 March

International Migration and Human Rights: Critical Research and Policy Perspectives Security of Residence as a Human Right, or How Courts Should Regularise those Migrants Who are Here to Stay: Speaker: Cathryn Costello, University of Oxford
Pauling Centre Seminar Room at 14:00

February 2013

Sunday 31 February

International Migration and Human Rights: Critical Research and Policy Perspectives Integrating the human rights of migrants into the global governance of migration: the 2013 High-Level Dialogue and beyond: Speaker: Pia Oberoi, UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights
Pauling Centre Seminar Room at 14:00

Thursday 28 February

International Migration and Human Rights: Critical Research and Policy Perspectives The Price of Rights. Labour immigration policy and the rights of migrant workers: Speaker: Martin Ruhs, CONTED and COMPAS, University of Oxford
Pauling Centre Seminar Room at 14:00

Monday 25 February

Oxford Humanitarian Group Negotiating Humanitarian Agreements with Everybody: Geneva Call's Experience with Armed Non-State Actors: Speaker: Elisabeth Decrey-Warner, President, Geneva Call
Manor Road Social Sciences Building Lecture Theatre at 17:00

Thursday 21 February

International Migration and Human Rights: Critical Research and Policy Perspectives The Right to Work of Irregular Migrants: Speaker: Virginia Mantouvalou, UCL
Pauling Centre Seminar Room at 14:00

Wednesday 20 February

Oxford Human Rights Hub Placing Filipino Caregivers in Canadian Homes: Regulating Transnational Employment Agencies: Speaker: Judy Fudge, Lansdowne Chair in Law at the University of Victoria, Canada; Visiting Senior Fellow at the European Institute in Florence and Leverhulme Visiting Professor at Kent Law School
Oxford Law Faculty The Cube at 13:00
A podcast of this talk is available.

Thursday 14 February

International Migration and Human Rights: Critical Research and Policy Perspectives Do Human Rights Treaties Help or Hurt Asylum-Seekers?: The U.K. Case: Speaker: Stephen Meili, University of Minnesota
Pauling Centre Seminar Room at 14:00

Monday 11 February

Migration Law Discussion Group The Culture of Rights Protection in Canadian Refugee Law: Examining the Domestic Violence Cases: Speaker: Dr Efrat Arbel, The University of British Columbia
Oxford Law Faculty SCR at 12:30

Thursday 7 February

International Migration and Human Rights: Critical Research and Policy Perspectives Border Regimes and Human Rights: Speaker: David Miller, University of Oxford
Pauling Centre Seminar Room at 14:00

Wednesday 6 February

Oxford Human Rights Hub International Human Rights Law and National Equality Legislation: Mapping the Gaps: Speaker: Dimitrina Petrova, Executive Director of the Equal Rights Trust
Oxford Law Faculty The Cube at 13:00

Migration Law Discussion Group Towards a Human Rights-Based Paradigm of Integration? Assessing the Contribution of International Human Rights Law: Speaker: Dr Cliodhna Murphy, Dublin City University
Oxford University English Seminar Room A (Meyerstein Room), St. Cross Building, Manor Road Bldg, Oxford OX1 3UQ at 17:30

January 2013

Thursday 24 January

International Migration and Human Rights: Critical Research and Policy Perspectives Trafficking and the protection of human rights. Full of sound and fury, but what does it signify?: Speaker: Bridget Anderson, COMPAS, University of Oxford
Pauling Centre Seminar Room at 14:00

Thursday 17 January

Oxford Human Rights Hub Interpreting Human Rights in New Zealand and the UK: Expansive but Narrow, Narrow but Expansive: Speaker: Kris Gledhill, University of Auckland; Inaugural Director of the New Zealand Centre for Human Rights Law, Policy and Practice
Oxford Law Faculty Senior Common Room at 13:00
A podcast of this talk is available.

International Migration and Human Rights: Critical Research and Policy Perspectives In Defense of the Migrant Workers Convention: Standard Setting for Contemporary Migration: Speaker: Bernard Ryan, University of Kent
Pauling Centre Seminar Room at 14:00

November 2012

Tuesday 20 November 2012

Oxford Human Rights Hub Seminar Series An Agenda for the Prevention of Human Trafficking: Non-Discrimination and Empowerment: Speaker: Maria Grazia Giammarinaro, Special Representative and Co-ordinator for Combating Trafficking in Human Beings for the Organisation for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE)
Oxford Law Faculty Law Board Room at 13:00
A podcast of this talk is available.

Friday 16 November

Public Law Discussion Group Judging Social Rights: Speaker: Dr Jeff King, Senior Lecturer in Law, UCL
Oxford Law Faculty The Cube at 17:00

Thursday 8 November

Oxford Pro Bono Publico Lunch in Celebration of National Pro Bono Week: Oxford Law Faculty Senior Common Room at 13:00

Tuesday 6 November

Oxford Human Rights Hub Seminar Series State Sovereignty v Migrants' Rights: Who wins before the European and Inter-American Courts of Human Rights?: Speaker: Marie-Benedicte Dembour, Professor of Law and Anthropology, University of Sussex
Oxford Law Faculty Law Board Room at 13:00

October 2012

Tuesday 16 October

Oxford Human Rights Hub Seminar Series Taking Direct Discrimination Cases out of the Straightjacket of Crude Comparator Analysis: A Shift to a Stronger Principle of Equality: Speaker: Justice Kevin Bell, Justice of the Supreme Court of Victoria
Oxford Law Faculty The Cube at 13:00
A podcast of this talk is available.

Monday 8 October

Oxford Human Rights Hub Seminar Series The Progress Narrative in the New Historiography of the International Human Rights Regime: Speaker: Philip Alston, NYU School of Law
Oxford Law Faculty The Cube at 13:00
A podcast of this talk is available.

Oxford Human Rights Hub Seminar Series The European Court of Justice's treatment of the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights: Speaker: Gráinne De Búrca, NYU School of Law
Oxford Law Faculty SCR at 17:00
A podcast of this talk is available.

July 2012

Thursday 26 July

International Human Rights Law Seminars Entry Level Careers Discussion Panel: Speaker: Associate Dean Susan Karamanian (moderator), Ms. Meghna Abraham, Professor Erika De Wet and Professor Chip Pitts
Manor Road Social Sciences Building Lecture Theatre at 15:20

International Human Rights Law Series Mid-level Careers Discussion Panel: Speaker: Dr Andrew Shacknove (moderator), Professor Margaret Bedggood, Dr Patricia Sellers and Mr Ian Park
Manor Road Social Sciences Building Lecture Theatre at 17:00

Tuesday 24 July

International Human Rights Law Series Joan Fitzpatrick Memorial Lecture: Poverty and the Right to Equality: Speaker: Professor Sandy Fredman, Oxford Faculty of Law
Manor Road Social Sciences Building Lecture Theatre at 17:00

Thursday 19 July

International Human Rights Law Series Ben Gupta Memorial Lecture: The Relations between Freedom of Expression and Freedom of Religion in the Case Law of the European Court of Human Rights: Speaker: Honourable Jean Paul Costa, Former President of the European Court of Human Rights
Manor Road Social Sciences Building Lecture Theatre at 17:00

Thursday 12 July

International Human Rights Law Seminars Humanitarian Ethics: Rights, Laws and Moral Dilemmas in War and Disaster: Speaker: Dr Hugo Slim, Oxford Institute for Ethics, Law and Armed Conflict
Manor Road Social Sciences Building Lecture Theatre at 17:00

Tuesday 10 July

International Human Rights Law Seminars Corporate Accountability for Human Rights Abuses: A panel discussion: Speaker: Professor Douglas Cassell (moderator), Professor Chip Pitts and Professor Paul Hoffman
Manor Road Social Sciences Building Lecture Theatre at 15:30

June 2012

Wednesday 20 June

Oxford Human Rights Hub Implications of America's Desegregation Landmark in the World: Speaker: Martha Minow
Oxford Law Faculty The Cube at 12:00
A podcast of this talk is available.

Tuesday 12 June

Realising Human Rights People and the Courts: Speaker: Geoff Budlender
Oxford Law Faculty The Cube at 12:00

Thursday 7 June

Oxford Human Rights Hub Discussion Group: Speaker: Liora Lazarus and Nick Friedman
Oxford Law Faculty Law Board Room at 12:00

May 2012

Thursday 31 May

Public Law Discussion Group Inventing the "Traditional Concept" of Sex Discrimination: Speaker: Professor Cary Franklin, Assistant Professor, The University of Texas School of Law at The University of Texas at Austin
Oxford Law Faculty Senior Common Room at 12:30

Oxford Human Rights Hub Litigating the Public Sector Equality Duty: a view from the Front: Change of time
Speaker: Helen Mountfield
Oxford Law Faculty The Cube at 17:00

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