To celebrate the 10th Anniversary of the Master of Laws in Human Rights Programme, the Faculty of Law is organizing the following activities:
Public Lecture "Re-thinking Foundations of Human Rights in a Fragmented World"
Mr Denis Chang, SC
Date: 12 March 2010 (Friday)
Time: 6:30 - 7:30 pm (Cocktail Reception starts at 5:30pm)
Venue: Council Chamber, 8/F Meng Wah Complex, The University of Hong Kong
Symposium "Alternative Visions of Human Rights"
Date: 13 March 2010 (Saturday)
Time: 9:30 am - 5:30 pm
Venue: Council Chamber, 8/F Meng Wah Complex, The University of Hong Kong
Speakers:
"Human Rights, Private Conscience and the Role of the United Nations" - Professor Anne Orford, Melbourne Law School
"Is Dignity a Fundamental Constitutional Right?" - Professor Otto Pfersmann, University of Paris I Pantheon-Sorbonne.
"From Governance of Others to Care of the Self - Spirituality Opposed to Knowledge in Foucault's Later Thought, Implications for Visions of Human Rights" - Professor Tony Carty, The University of Hong Kong
"Responsibility for Patterned Human Rights Violations" - Professor Brooke Ackerly, Political Science at Vanderbilt University
Dinner and Keynote address "The Human Condition and the Role of Law"
Professor Philip Allott, Cambridge University
Date: 13 March 2010 (Saturday)
Time: 7:00 p.m.
Venue: Club Lusitano, 27/F (Dinning Room), 16 Ice House Street, Central
Members of the media are cordially invited to attend. For enquiries, please contact Ms Lydia Bute (Tel: 2219 4323; Email: lbute@hku.hk ) of the Faculty of Law.
