10th Anniversary of the Master of Laws in Human Rights Programme
1. Cocktail Reception and Talk by Denis Chang, SC, JP, on “Re-thinking Foundations of Human Rights in a Fragmented World”,
Friday, 12 March, 5:30-7:30pm,
Council Chamber, 8/F Meng Wah Complex, The University of Hong Kong
2. Symposium on “Alternative Visions of Human Rights”,
Saturday, 13 March, 9:30am – 5:30pm,
Council Chamber, 8/F Meng Wah Complex, The University of Hong Kong
Session 1 Public lecture by Mr Denis Chang, SC, JP
Re-thinking Foundations of Human Rights in a Fragmented World
Speaker: Mr. Denis Chang, SC, JP Mr. Denis Chang, SC, JP, chairman of the Board of Directors and of the Editorial Committee of the Hong Kong Law Journal, formerly chairman of the Hong Kong Bar Association, member of the Executive Committee of the Consultative Committee of the Basic Law of Hong Kong, and member of the Executive Council of the Hong Kong Government. Cocktail Reception and Public Lecture
Date: Friday, 12 March 2010
Time: 5:30-7:30 pm(Presentation beginning at 6:30 pm)
Venue: Council Chamber, 8/F Meng Wah Complex, The University of Hong Kong
RSVP: Lydia Bute by email at [email protected]
Session 2 Symposium
Symposium on “Alternative Visions of Human Rights
Speakers: Professor Anne Orford, Michael D Kirby Professor of International Law and an Australian Research Council Professorial Fellow at Melbourne Law School, Director of the Institute for International Law and the Humanities, speaking on “Human Rights, Private Conscience and the Role of the United Nations” Professor Otto Pfersmann, PhD (Philosophy), LLD, Chair in Comparative Constitutional Law and Legal Theory, University of Paris I Pantheon-Sorbonne, speaking on “Is Dignity a Fundamental Constitutional Right?” Professor Tony Carty, Sir YK Pao Chair in Public Law, Faculty of Law, The University of Hong Kong, speaking on “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 Brooke Ackerly, Associate Professor of Political Science at Vanderbilt University, author of Universal Human Rights in a World of Difference, speaking on “Responsibility for Patterned Human Rights Violations”
Date: Saturday, 13 March 2010
Time: 9:30am – 5:30pm
Venue: Council Chamber, 8/F Meng Wah Complex, The University of Hong Kong
RSVP: Lydia Bute by email at [email protected]