Thursday, November 26, 2009 at 6:00 PM (GMT)
CURRENT LEGAL PROBLEMS LECTURE SERIES 2009-10:
Recalibrating ECHR:
Rights and the Role of the Human Rights Act Post 9/11
Prof. Helen Fenwick
University of Durham
Chaired by
The Rt Hon Lord Justice Sedley
on 26 November 2009, from 6-7pm
Venue:
UCL Law Faculty
Bentham House, Endsleigh Gardens
London WC1H 0EG
About the speaker:
Helen Fenwick is Director of Research and Professor at the University of Durham School of Law. She is also co-Director of the Univ. of Durham Human Rights Centre and is a human rights expect for Doughty Street Chambers. Her research interest lies in the field of civil liberties and human
rights. Within that field her main interests are in counter-terrorist
law and policy, media freedom of expression (in particular contempt
law, obscenity law and privacy law), public protest, and the influence
of the European Convention on Human Rights under the Human Rights Act. She is the author of Civil Liberties and Human Rights (2007, Routledge). Her current research focuses on
counter-terrorist measures, media freedom of expression and judicial
reasoning under the Human Rights Act.
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