The Power of One: International Law and the Special Rapporteurs of the UN System

This session is a Special Rapporteurs (SRs) roundtable with existing as well as previous SRs who teach on the MSc and Summer School in IHRL. The SRs will address questions on a range of topics including what happens at handover from one SR to the next, what role jus cogens has in their work (if any), and examples of best practice.

Olivier De Schutter, tutor, MSc International Human Rights Law, University of Oxford; Professor, University of Louvain (UCLouvain) Belgium; UN Special Rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights

Nazila Ghanea, Professor of International Human Rights Law, University of Oxford and Course Director of the MSc in International Human Rights Law; UN Special Rapporteur on freedom of religion or belief

David Kaye, tutor, Summer School in International Human Rights Law, University of Oxford; Clinical Professor of Law, University of California Irvine

John Knox, tutor, MSc International Human Rights Law, University of Oxford; Professor of International Law, Wake Forest University, North Carolina; former UN Special Rapporteur on human rights and the environment

Dino Kritsiotis, tutor, MSc International Human Rights Law, University of Oxford; Professor of Public International Law and Head of the International Humanitarian Law Unit, Human Rights Law Centre, University of Nottingham 

Ahmed Shaheed, tutor, MSc International Human Rights Law, University of Oxford; Lecturer in Human Rights, School of Law and Human Rights Centre, University of Essex

Alexandra Xanthaki, tutor, Summer School in International Human Rights Law, University of Oxford; Professor of Laws & Director of Research at Brunel University, UN Special Rapporteur on cultural rights