2009 PROTECTING HUMAN RIGHTS CONFERENCE

 2 October 2009

 Art Gallery of NSW, Sydney

The Centre for Comparative Constitutional Studies, the Gilbert+Tobin Centre for Public Law and RegNet invite you to attend the 2009 Protecting Human Rights Conference, to be held at the Art Gallery of NSW in Sydney on Friday, 2 October 2009. 

We invite you to register for this one day event that will discuss developments in the legislative protection of human rights in Australia. The conference will consider the National Human Rights Consultation, and provide an update of developments in the Victorian Charter of Human Rights and Responsibilities, the ACT Human Rights Act and in NSW human rights law. Leading Australian and international speakers will consider the National Consultation process, and what reforms it might lead to in Australia. The conference will also address the constitutional dialogue model that is a feature of the human rights statutes in many countries of the British Commonwealth. Finally, the conference will consider some crucial further challenges in relation to human rights protection, including: the rights of Indigenous people; the protection of economic, social and cultural rights; and the intersection between human rights and religion.

Confirmed speakers include:
 

• Professor Larissa Behrendt, Jumbunna Indigenous House of Learning (UTS)
• The Hon Catherine Branson QC, President, Australian Human Rights Commission
• Professor Andrew Byrnes, University of New South Wales
• Professor Hilary Charlesworth AM and Renuka Thilagaratnam, Australian National University
• Associate Professor Andrea Durbach, University of New South Wales
• Associate Professor Simon Evans, Melbourne Law School
• Professor Stephen A Gardbaum, University of California, Los Angeles
• Mary Kostakidis, National Human Rights Consultation committee member
• The Hon Keith Mason AC, Visiting Professorial Fellow, University of New South Wales
• Phil Lynch, Human Rights Law Resource Centre
• Dr John Tobin, Melbourne Law School
• Associate Professor Kristen Walker, University of Melbourne

**VICTORIAN BAR MEMBERS PLEASE NOTE: The Victorian Bar will accredit the conference so that Victorian Bar members receive one CDP point per hour up to 5 points.**

Please click here for the conference brochure with program and registration details.

Please note that registration is online at www.gtcentre.unsw.edu.au

If you have any queries, please contact Belinda McDonald (gtcentre@unsw.edu.au or (02) 9385 2257).