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Conference Announcement: Human Rights at Sydney

By Lawrence Solum

Human Rights: Old Dichotomies Revisited

25 November 2011 to 26 November 2011
The Julius Stone Institute of Jurisprudence and the Sydney Centre for International Law are pleased to announce a major conference being held in November 2011.

The conference will bring together the leading international and Australian scholars in jurisprudence and in international human-rights law to reflect upon the traditional, 'classical' dilemmas and taxonomies in the philosophy of human rights, in the light of recent developments in theories of rights and in the international law of human rights.
Confirmed speakers include:

Professor Tom Campbell, Centre for Applied Philosophy and Public Ethics (CAPPE)
Professor Leslie Green, Oxford University
Professor David Kinley, University of Sydney
Professor Susan Marks, London School of Economics
Professor Thomas Pogge, Yale University and CAPPE
Professor Jeremy Waldron, New York University & Oxford University
Professor Neil Walker, University of Edinburgh

Registration will open in mid-2011, and program information will be posted here as it becomes available.
To express interest or for further information, please contact:

Professor Wojciech Sadurski or Dr Kevin Walton, Sydney Law School
Email: law.jsi@sydney.edu.au

Time: To be confirmed
Location: Sydney Law School

Full post as published by Legal Theory Blog on August 03, 2010 (boomark / email).