Date: 03Jul 2015
Professor Triggs shares her insights and experiences from Australia and the region in this lunchtime event. Seats are limited and prior registration is required. Opening the session will be Associate Professors at the Faculty of Law, Ms. Puja Kapai and Dr. Marco Wan, speaking on the subject of sexual and ethnic minorities in Hong Kong and the challenges that they face in equal protection under the law in a range of spheres. Emeritus Professor Gillian Triggs is the President of the Australian Human Rights Commission, taking up her appointment by the Commonwealth Attorney-General in 2012. She was Dean of the Faculty of Law and Challis Professor of International Law at the University of Sydney from 2007-12 and Director of the British Institute of International and Comparative Law from 2005-7. She is a former Barrister with Seven Wentworth Chambers and a Governor of the College of Law.
