Date: 28Oct 2021 EXPORTING VIRTUE?: CHINA’S INTERNATIONAL HUMAN RIGHTS ACTIVISM IN THE AGE OF XI JINPING (UBC PRESS, 2021) with the author – Pitman B. Potter 12:00...
Tag - Human Rights
Public and Comparative
Remedies For Human Rights Violations: A Two-Track Approach To Supra-National And National Law
Date: 16Sep 2021 REMEDIES FOR HUMAN RIGHTS VIOLATIONS: A TWO-TRACK APPROACH TO SUPRA-NATIONAL AND NATIONAL LAW (CUP, 2021) with the author – Kent Roach (THU)...
Equality and Discrimination, Rights Talk
The 3rd Asia-Pacific Summit on Gender-based Violence 第三屆亞太地區性別暴力防治高峰論壇
Date: 16-18Jun 2021 In June 2021, the Equality Rights Project of the Faculty of Law, the University of Hong Kong, Taiwan Coalition Against Violence and Association...
Chinese Law, Human Rights, Rights Talk
MAKING HONG KONG CHINA －The Rollback of Human Rights and the Rule of Law
Date: 07Nov 2020 (Saturday)Time: 9:30am – 11:00am ABOUT THE AUTHORPROFESSOR MICHAEL C. DAVIS is in the Fall of 2020 a Visiting Professor in the Faculty of Law at...
Court and Judiciary, Human Rights, International and Comparative law
Alec Stone Sweet : A Cosmopolitan Legal Order : Kant, Constitutional Justice, and the European Convention on Human Rights
Date: 24Sep 2019 Kant famously elaborated a blueprint for the achievement of Perpetual Peace. But eliminating war among states was just one step toward the construction...
Human Rights, Public and Comparative, Rights Talk
Human Rights Seminar Series Hong Kong: Children’s Right to Asylum
SYNOPSIS: Kay McArdle, CEO, PathFinders Limited, Hong Kong, joined PathFinders as its first CEO in October 2013. PathFinders is a Hong Kong-charity that works to fill...
Human Rights, Public and Comparative, Rule of Law
Professor Edwin Rekosh: The Global Regulatory Challenge to Foreign Funding of NGOs: Asphyxia or Opportunity?
Date: 26Feb 2016 SYNOPSIS: Prof. Rekosh will outline the growing trend for governments to use their regulatory powers to restrict foreign donor support to local NGOs...
Conference and Seminars, Human Rights, International and Comparative law, Public and Comparative, Rights Talk
Lynette J. Chua: Singapore’s Gay Rights Movement: Past, Present, and Future
Date: 12May 2014 SYNOPSIS: From private meetings in living rooms in the early 1990s to the emergence of annual rallies and decriminalization campaigns in the past seven...
Human Rights, Jurisprudence, Law and Technology and Intellectual Property, Peter Allan Memorial Lecture
Prof Lawrence Friedman: The Level Playing Field-Human Rights and Modern Legal Culture
Date: 13Feb 2014 SYNOPSIS: Peter Allan Memorial Lecture Legal culture is a crucial concept in the study of law and society. Three aspects of modern legal culture are...
Conference and Seminars, Human Rights, Public and Constitutional Law
Hoi Kong: Deliberative Democracy and the Law
Date: 23Jan 2014 SYNOPSIS: In this presentation, I will argue that central tenets of theories of deliberative democracy are pertinent to jurisprudential issues and...