University of Bristol Law School
The University of Bristol Law School is one of the leading centres of legal study in the UK with an international reputation for high quality undergraduate and postgraduate teaching and research. Our academic staff are leaders in their respective fields, which include the law of obligations, property, family law, criminal law and justice, employment law, legal theory, international law, human rights, socio-legal methods, human rights, and public law. We are lucky to be located in the iconic Wills Memorial Building, a well known Bristol landmark, and to have easy access not only to the rest of the University but also to the many cafes and shops in the Park Street area.
http://www.bris.ac.uk/law/videos/
The University of Bristol Law School is one of the leading centres of legal study in the UK with an international reputation for high quality undergraduate and postgraduate teaching and research. Our academic staff are leaders in their respective fields, which include the law of obligations, property, family law, criminal law and justice, employment law, legal theory, international law, human rights, socio-legal methods, human rights, and public law. We are lucky to be located in the iconic Wills Memorial Building, a well known Bristol landmark, and to have easy access not only to the rest of the University but also to the many cafes and shops in the Park Street area.
http://www.bris.ac.uk/law/videos/
Human Rights Implementation Centre
The Centre, based in the Law School, provides an international focus for developing expertise, advice and scholarship on the role of institutions, whether those are at the national, regional or international levels, in the implementation of human rights. These institutions include national governments and non-governmental organisations, but also statutory and constitutional bodies such as national human rights institutions, as well as regional bodies, such as the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights, the Council of Europe, the Organisation on Security and Co-operation in Europe, as well as those under the UN, both treaty bodies, the Special Procedures and the OHCHR. Since September 2013 the Human Rights Implementation Centre has been admitted as a member of the Association of Human Rights Institutes.
The Centre, based in the Law School, provides an international focus for developing expertise, advice and scholarship on the role of institutions, whether those are at the national, regional or international levels, in the implementation of human rights. These institutions include national governments and non-governmental organisations, but also statutory and constitutional bodies such as national human rights institutions, as well as regional bodies, such as the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights, the Council of Europe, the Organisation on Security and Co-operation in Europe, as well as those under the UN, both treaty bodies, the Special Procedures and the OHCHR. Since September 2013 the Human Rights Implementation Centre has been admitted as a member of the Association of Human Rights Institutes.
Keynote Speaker: Professor Malcolm Evans OBE
Professor Malcolm Evans OBE was Head of the School from 2003-2005 and Dean of the Faculty of Social Sciences and Law at the University of Bristol from 2005-2009. He is currently Chair of the United Nations Sub Committee for the Prevention of Torture and is a member of the UK Foreign Secretary's Advisory Group on Human Rights. He is also a member of the Organisation on Security and Cooperation in Europe's Advisory Council of Freedom of Religion and Belief and has worked extensively with numerous international organisations on a broad range of human rights issues. As Deputy Director of the Human Rights Implementation Centre (HRiC) within the School of Law he is involved in a wide variety of its funded research projects, in particular those in Eastern Europe and Central Asia and in Africa. He has published widely in public international law and human rights, he is an editor of the International and Comparative Law Quarterly and also of the journal Religion and Human Rights as well as being editor and co-editor of numerous other collections of essays.
Professor Malcolm Evans OBE was Head of the School from 2003-2005 and Dean of the Faculty of Social Sciences and Law at the University of Bristol from 2005-2009. He is currently Chair of the United Nations Sub Committee for the Prevention of Torture and is a member of the UK Foreign Secretary's Advisory Group on Human Rights. He is also a member of the Organisation on Security and Cooperation in Europe's Advisory Council of Freedom of Religion and Belief and has worked extensively with numerous international organisations on a broad range of human rights issues. As Deputy Director of the Human Rights Implementation Centre (HRiC) within the School of Law he is involved in a wide variety of its funded research projects, in particular those in Eastern Europe and Central Asia and in Africa. He has published widely in public international law and human rights, he is an editor of the International and Comparative Law Quarterly and also of the journal Religion and Human Rights as well as being editor and co-editor of numerous other collections of essays.