Conference papers and presentations
Available conference papers
Speaker biographical notes and paper abstractsFurther papers will be added as they become available
- Professor David Feldman, Miegunyah Public Lecture – ‘The roles of parliaments in protecting human rights: a view from the UK’
- NEW Professor David Feldman, Miegunyah Public Lecture - Audio Recording
- Professor George Williams, ‘ ‘Who best protects rights: legislatures or the courts? Implications for the bill of rights debate - The case for a role for the judiciary’
- Professor Paul Rishworth, ‘The New Zealand Parliament and the protection of rights: praxis and pitfalls’
- Satya Prateek, ‘“Achieving” by enacting: Locating the Indian Parliament in the human rights discourse’
- Dr John Dinan, ‘The United States Congress and the protection of rights’
- Senator Andrew Murray, ‘Parliamentary Committees and the protection of rights: a partial evaluation’
- Allan Shearan MP, ‘The role of the Legislation Review Committee’
- NEW Gabrielle McKinnon, ‘Giving meaning to a culture of human rights' (slides) (word format)
- Professor David Kinley, ‘Does the globalizing economy help or hinder human rights compliance?’
- Hafid Abbas, ‘Decentralization and local elites’ role in promotion of human rights’
- Dr James Kelly, ‘The commonwealth model and bills of rights: comparing legislative activism in
- Joanna Davidson, ‘The role and impact of the government lawyer in pre-legislative scrutiny’
- Professor Janet Hiebert, ‘Governing under a Bill of Rights: What does a compliance culture entail?’
- Dr Carolyn Evans and Dr Simon Evans, ‘The effectiveness of Australian parliaments in the protection of rights’
- NEW Professor John McMillan, The Role of the Ombudsman in Protecting Human Rights
- See also the Carolyn Evans' and Simon Evans' other publications and working papers from the Legislatures and Human Rights Project
Related material
- See also Commonwealth Human Rights Initiative and Commonwealth Parliamentary Association's Human Rights Module for Parliamentarians