Date: 17Mar 2016 The Inter-American Human Rights System faces a crisis, with several countries attacking the Commission and Court. Does the challenge rest on the notions...
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Conference and Seminars, Public and Comparative
Melissa Loja- Status Quo Post Bellum & the Legal Resolution of the Territorial Dispute
Date: 08Apr 2016 The talk will focus on whether Japan’s possession of the Diaoyu/Senkaku Islands has a legal basis. Unlike most analyses focusing on historic titles and...
Conference and Seminars, Public and Comparative
Dr Rebecca Williams- Multiple Doctrines of Legitimate Expectations
Date: 29Mar 2016 Legitimate Expectations arise in a variety of different ways and yet ‘the doctrine of legitimate expectations’ is still regarded as one amorphous...
Conference and Seminars, Public and Comparative
Mr Masatoshi Takeuchi: The 2015 Japanese Security Legislation and Its Implications
Date: 08Mar 2016 The 2014 decision by Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s government to reinterpret Article 9 of the Japanese Constitution and pass security legislation...
Public and Comparative, Seminar
Yoshiaki Normura & Tetsuo Morishita: Use of Principled Negotiation in the Settlement of Disputes
Date: 01Mar 2016 Professor Yoshiaki Nomura Osaka School of International Public Policy In professional life as executives or lawyers, negotiation is everywhere. How one...
Public and Comparative, Seminar
Dr Jackson Katz: Engendering a Culture of Prevention on Campuses: the Bystander Intervention Model
Date: 01Mar 2016 Dr. Jackson Katz is internationally renowned for his pioneering scholarship and activism on issues of gender and violence. He is the founder and...
Conference and Seminars, Public and Comparative
Takahiro Uenishi: Assessing a Reasonable Share Price in Management Buy-outs
Date: 10Mar 2016 How does the Japanese Court assess a reasonable share price in management buy-out (MBO) situations? This talk will consider how Japanese courts...
Conference and Seminars, Public and Comparative
Official Launch of CCPL’s Hong Kong’s Hidden Stories: I am Hong Kong Too
Date: 22Mar 2016 Hong Kong’s Hidden Stories is a CCPL project dedicated to building a collective narrative of Hong Kong’s ethnic minorities. In sharing their...
Public and Comparative, Seminar
3/3 CCPL Dialogue on Hong Kong’s Constitutional Future: the Future of One Country, Two Systems
Date: 14Apr 2016 “One Country Two Systems” have been practiced in in Hong Kong for 18 years. The conflict between “One Country” and “Two Systems” becomes more and more...
Conference and Seminars, Human Rights, International and Comparative law, Public and Constitutional Law, Seminar
The promise of a “Negative Voting” system for Hong Kong elections – Mr. Sam Chang
Date: 21Mar 2016 A “negative vote” is a vote cast against a candidate or a party. Although each voter still has only one vote, (s)he has the option to vote “no” instead...