human rights lawyers association


previous events

Event Date

A Bill of Rights for the UK

2nd November 2011

A Vulgar Necessity: Making Sense of Human Rights and Global Finance

17 October 2011

Al Skeini & Al Jedda: Bringing Rights Overseas?

20 July 2011

Baroness Hale of Richmond, Common Law and Convention Law: The Limits to Interpretation

28 June 2011

Sanctions in the UN / EU and the role of the Ombudsperson

8 June 2011

The Memory of Justice: The unexpected place of Lviv in International Law - A personal history

10 May 2011

Careers Day London

5 May 2011

Litigating Human Dignity: Does it Add Value?

15 March 2011

Careers Day Leeds

16 February 2011

Forced Marriage Two Years On

23 November 2010

HRLA Seminar - Litigating Human Rights Claims

27 October 2010

Happiness Pursued: After Ten Years of the Human Rights Act, Are Brits More Humane Than Yanks? 

20 October 2010

Remedies & Human Rights Damages

12 October 2010

Equality Between Woman & Men; 30 Years Later is CEDAW Working?

5 October 2010

Human Rights and Access to Information

8 July 2010

Careers Day - London

4 May 2010

Conflicts and Inquiries:
Lessons from the Bloody Sunday Inquiry, the Hutton Inquiry and the Mousa Inquiry

4 May 2010

Everything You Have Ever Needed to Know Abour Equality Duties

20 April 2010

Introducing the Lisbon Treaty & EU Charter

30 March 2010

THE STATE OF HUMAN RIGHTS: HOW WILL HUMAN RIGHTS BE PROTECTED IN THE UK AFTER THE GENERAL ELECTION?

17 March 2010
24 March 2010

Leeds Career Day

8 March 2010

Introducing the Lisbon Treaty & The EU Charter: A Guide for Lawyers

8 March 2010

Access to Justice As a Human Right

10 February 2010

Celebrating 50 Years of the European Court of Human Rights

10 December 2009

Liberty & Detention

7 December 2009

The future of children's rights in the United Kingdom: what is the role for the UN convention on the Rights of the Child?

30 November 2009

Complicity with Apartheid

18 November 2009

What Next for the 'Torture Team'? Philippe Sands in interview with Jon Snow

22 June 2009

How to Build a Career In Human Rights?

29 April 2009

Protected & Fulfilled by Human Rights? The UK in the 21st Century

22 April 2009

Opening the Family Courts - the challenges for practitioners, court users and the press

26 March 2009

The State of Privacy: DNA, Databases and the Right to Be Let Alone
Understanding the Scope of the Right to Respect for Private Life post Marper v UK

12 March 2009

Celebrating 10 years of the Human Rights Act 1998

25 November 2008

Tim Otty QC on Guantanamo

3 July 2008

Fair Comment and Libel Law

24 June 2008

The Counter-Terrorism Bill: Secruity, Liberty, 42 days and all that

10 June 2008

Human Rights During 60 Years of the Israeli- Palestinian Conflict

20 May 2008

TORTURE TEAM - the people who brought cruelty and criminality to Guantanamo

18 May 2008

Symposium: A Hippocratic Oath for Lawyers?

12 May 2008

D.H v Czech Republic case and beyond

6 May 2008

Torture Team: the lawyers who authorised tortured

1 May 2008

Constitution and Accountability - Some lessons from South Africa

22 April 2008

Intervention Training

7 April 2008

The Moral Responsibility of Lawyers

1 April 2008

Speaker Meeting on Malaysia

27 March 2008

Sexaul Apartheid, Political Islam and Women's Rights

10 March 2008

Law and Peace

10 March 2008

Human Rights Law: Today's issues for tomorrow's lawyers

8 March 2008

Environment Public Law Challenges 2008: Who are the winners?

6 March 2008

The Interpretive Authority of Legal and Quasi Legal Human Rights Bodies

20 February 2008

The UK's detention policy in Iraq: state, responsibility for torture, mutilation and killing

12 February 2008

International Criminal Accountability, Transitional Justice and State Consent: Emerging Problems in a World of Transitional and Regional Crimes

6 February 2008

Dame Ann Ebsworth Third Memorial Lecture - Judging Under a Bill of Rights: A different view

5 February 2008

Can Human Rights be Guaranteed within a Conflict? Lessons from Basra, Belfast and the ending of the British Empire

24 January 2008

Optional Protocol to the UN Convention against Torture: Role of Nationalo Preventive Mechanisms

23 January 2008

The Counter-Terrorism and Human Rights Conference 2007 - New Policy, New Practice?

12 December 2007

Contracting Out of Human Rights? The meaning of 'public authority' in the Human Rights Act after YL

5 December 2007

The Humanisation of General International Law

5 December 2007

A British Bill of Human Rights - Informing the Debate

19 November 2007

Towards a Written Constitution

15 November 2007

Self-determination: The hidden Histrory of Population Transfer

14 November 2007

Enhancing Freedom through Human Rights Law: Developments at the European Court of Human Rights

31 October 2007

The Human Rights Law Conference 2007 - (9th Annual Conference)

30 October 2007

Forced Marriage - An abuse of Human Rights

25 October 2007

Self regulation at a crossroads: attacks on the legal profession in Zimbabwe

24 October 2007

Judging Human Rights in South Africa: A conversation with Judge Kate O'Regan of the South African Constitutional Court

22 October 2007

Peace Brigades International - "Do victims have rights too?"

18 October 2007

Human Rights and the Environment

17 October 2007

Anniversary of the Human Rights Act 1998- Minister of Human Rights lecture

1 October 2007

Book launch of Gao Zhisheng's "A China More Just"

19 September 2007

CHRI 20th Anniversary Conference - Human Rights for Human Wrongs: The Continuing Commonwealth Challenge

14 September 2007

Cumberland Lodge -Children's Rights, Children's Lives

6-8 September 2007

Widowhood in Conflict and Post-Conflict Scenarios - A Human Rights Issue

25 July 2007

The Al Skeini Decision on the Extraterritorial Application of Human Rights: A Landmark

18 Jul 2007

Using the law in the AIDS epidemic: Sword or Shield?

28 June 2007

25 June 2007

Britain's New Commission on Equality and Human Rights

15 Jun 2007

LSE Centre for Human Rights Studies: Understanding Women’s Human Rights’  short evening course

4 June - 9 July 2007

Fundamental Rights at the International Court of Justice

17 May 2007

Inquests, Inquiries and the Right to Life

20 Mar 2007

Being v Belief : Denying Human Rights

1 Mar 2007

Celebrating 40 Years of 'Going to Strasbourg'

14 Dec 2006

Contested Rights:Policing Assembly and Protest

5 Dec 2006

Applying Human Rights to Law Affecting Refugees- Employment/Housing/Benefits

04 Oct 2006

Extraterritoriality

03 Oct 2006

A Conversation with the Lord Chancellor

29 Sept 2006

Applying human rights to Law affecting refugees-Family

20 Sept 2006

Applying Human Rights to Law affecting people with Disabilities- Access to Services

19 July 2006

Special Relationship or One-Way Street? Extradition, Human Rights and the US

13 July 2006

Applying Human Rights to Law Affecting People with Disabilities-Employment

21 June 2006

Remedies Under the Human Rights Act 1998

7 June 2006

Privacy in the 21st Century: RIP?

22 Mar 2006

Can God be Offended? Defending Religion in the Age of Human Rights

14 Mar 2006

The Responsibility of the Media to Protect Human Rights: Hobbyhorse or Duty?

8 Mar 2006

The Added Value of Human Rights - HIV/AIDS and Human Rights

2 Mar 2006

Is Civil Partnership Gay Marriage?

27 Feb 2006

Speak Up, Speaking Out: The Right to Protest and Freedom of Expression

22 Feb 2006

The Added Value of Human Rights - Environment and Human Rights

8 Feb 2006

Death on the Rock - Lessons from the 1980s: TV, Investigative Journalism and Protecting Human Rights

2 Feb 2006

The Use of Lethal Force: What is Absolute Necessity - Lessons from Northern Ireland

24 Jan 2006

The Absolute Prohibition on Torture, Inhuman and Degrading Treatment: Application in Practice

19 Jan 2006

The Added Value of Human Rights - International Development and Human Rights

11 Jan 2006

The Added Value of Human Rights - Poverty and Human Rights

30 Nov 2005

Law and (the International Legal) Order: are we living in a Lawless World?

15 Nov 2005

The Added Value of Human Rights - Religion and Human Rights

09 Nov 2005

Reproductive Choices: Con(tra)ception, Intervention and Abortion: the Added Value of Human Rights

6 October 2005

Considering Terrorism: The Role of Human Rights in Fight Against Terror

4 October 2005

Human Rights and Islamic Law

27 September 2005

I'm a Family Lawyer - how is the Human Rights Act helping my practice?

22 June 2005

Translating the Rhetoric of Human Rights into Reality

16 June 2005

I'm an Immigration Lawyer - how is the Human Rights Act helping my practice?

18 May 2005

I'm an Employment Lawyer - how is the Human Rights Act helping my practice?

27 April 2005

I'm a Mental Health Lawyer - how is the Human Rights Act helping my practice?

6 April 2005

Resolving the Fight Against Terrorism: The Human Rights Response

7 March 2005

I'm a Commercial Lawyer - how is the Human Rights Act helping my practice?

2 March 2005

EU Charter of Fundamental Human Rights and Freedoms

21 February 2005

The Role of Unincorporated Treaties in English Law

15 February 2005

I'm a Criminal Lawyer - how is the Human Rights Act helping my practice?

9 February 2005

The Governments Review of its International Human Rights Treaty Obligations - Women Only Need Apply

31 January 2005

Indefinite Detention of Suspected Terrorists without Trial: Can the UK System of Government Protect Human Rights?

17 January 2005

Human Rights and the Fight Against Terrorism. The Terrorism Act 2000, ATCSA 2001, Recent Legislative Proposals and Lessons from Northern Ireland

14 December 2004

Hunting for Human Rights? A Debate about the Proposed Fox Hunting Ban

7 December 2004

Protecting Against Torture, Protecting the Right to Life

21 October 2004

Address by Lord Falconer

17 February 2004

"The Human Rights Act - Five Years On"

25 November 2003

The use of civil standards to regulate criminal conduct - Privacy & Policing

11 June 2003

The Human Rights Act in Tribunals

19 May 2003

Launch Event

27 February 2003