IHR & UCLSHRP: Human Right Review - Launch Event

UCL Institute for Human Rights & UCL Human Rights Review

The Interpretation of Convention Rights:

Universal Standards or National Application?

Friday 19^th March 2010, 6 – 9pm

Gustave Tuck Lecture Theatre, Wilkins Building

Chair:
Dr George Letsas, Director, UCL Institute for Human Rights

Speakers include:

• Judge Christos Rozakis, Vice President of the European Court of Human Rights
• Professor Steven Greer, Professor of Human Rights, University of Bristol
• Judge Hugo Storey, Senior Immigration Judge

About this event:

The UCL Human Rights Review spearheads the academic facet of our culture of human rights and invigorates human rights academia by publishing original contributions by students and human rights professionals together in one journal.  The entirely student-led editorial team, supported by an academic Advisory Board, are proud to launch the second edition of this review, which includes articles from Shami Chakrabarti, Director of Liberty, and the European Court of Human Rights Vice-President, Judge Christos Rozakis.

The evening will begin with a brief introduction to the edition by our chair Dr George Letsas, followed by a panel discussion of a few key articles on the subject of the interpretation of Convention Rights within a national legal system, especially those of Judge Rozakis and Eric Metcalfe that engage with Lord Hoffmann’s infamous speech to the Judicial Studies Board, ‘The Universality of Human Rights,’ concerning the national application of the judgement of the European Court of Human Rights.  Panelists include Judge Rozakis, Vice President of the European Court of Human Rights, as well as Professor Steven Greer, professor of Human Rights Law University of Bristol.

We greatly hope that you will attend what should prove to be an enjoyable and thought provoking evening.