human rights lawyers association


previous events

Event Date
Leeds Career Day 8th March 2010
Introduciing the Lisbon Treaty & The EU Charter: A Guide for Lawyers 8th March 2010
Access to Justice As a Human Right 10th February 2010
Celebrating 50 Years of the European Court of Human Rights 10th December 2009
Liberty & Detention 7th 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? 30th November 2009
Complicity with Apartheid 18th November 2009
What Next for the 'Torture Team'? Philippe Sands in interview with Jon Snow 22nd June 2009
How to Build a Career In Human Rights? 29th April 2009
Protected & Fulfilled by Human Rights? The UK in the 21st Century 22nd April 2009
Opening the Family Courts - the challenges for practitioners, court users and the press 26th 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
12th March 2009
Celebrating 10 years of the Human Rights Act 1998 25th November 2008
Tim Otty QC on Guantanamo 3rd July 2008
Fair Comment and Libel Law 24th June 2008
The Counter-Terrorism Bill: Secruity, Liberty, 42 days and all that 10th June 2008
Human Rights During 60 Years of the Israeli- Palestinian Conflict 20th May 2008
TORTURE TEAM - the people who brought cruelty and criminality to Guantanamo 18th May 2008
Symposium: A Hippocratic Oath for Lawyers? 12th May 2008
D.H v Czech Republic case and beyond 6th May 2008
Torture Team: the lawyers who authorised tortured 1st May 2008
Constitution and Accountability - Some lessons from South Africa 22nd April 2008
Intervention Training 7th April 2008
The Moral Responsibility of Lawyers 1st April 2008
Speaker Meeting on Malaysia 27th March 2008
Sexaul Apartheid, Political Islam and Women's Rights 10th March 2008
Law and Peace 10th March 2008
Human Rights Law: Today's issues for tomorrow's lawyers 8th March 2008
Environment Public Law Challenges 2008: Who are the winners? 6th March 2008
The Interpretive Authority of Legal and Quasi Legal Human Rights Bodies 20th February 2008
The UK's detention policy in Iraq: state, responsibility for torture, mutilation and killing 12th February 2008
International Criminal Accountability, Transitional Justice and State Consent: Emerging Problems in a World of Transitional and Regional Crimes 6th February 2008
Dame Ann Ebsworth Third Memorial Lecture - Judging Under a Bill of Rights: A different view 5th February 2008
Can Human Rights be Guaranteed within a Conflict? Lessons from Basra, Belfast and the ending of the British Empire 24th January 2008
Optional Protocol to the UN Convention against Torture: Role of Nationalo Preventive Mechanisms 23rd January 2008
The Counter-Terrorism and Human Rights Conference 2007 - New Policy, New Practice? 12th December 2007
Contracting Out of Human Rights? The meaning of 'public authority' in the Human Rights Act after YL 5th December 2007
The Humanisation of General International Law 5th December 2007
A British Bill of Human Rights - Informing the Debate 19th November 2007
Towards a Written Constitution 15th November 2007
Self-determination: The hidden Histrory of Population Transfer 14th November 2007
Enhancing Freedom through Human Rights Law: Developments at the European Court of Human Rights 31st October 2007
The Human Rights Law Conference 2007 - (9th Annual Conference) 30th October 2007
Forced Marriage - An abuse of Human Rights 25th October 2007
Self regulation at a crossroads: attacks on the legal profession in Zimbabwe 24th October 2007
Judging Human Rights in South Africa: A conversation with Judge Kate O'Regan of the South African Constitutional Court 22nd October 2007
Peace Brigades International - "Do victims have rights too?" 18th October 2007
Human Rights and the Environment 17th October 2007
Anniversary of the Human Rights Act 1998- Minister of Human Rights lecture 1st October 2007
Book launch of Gao Zhisheng's "A China More Just" 19th September 2007
CHRI 20th Anniversary Conference - Human Rights for Human Wrongs: The Continuing Commonwealth Challenge 14th September 2007
Cumberland Lodge -Children's Rights, Children's Lives 6th-8th 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 18th 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