Child Rights Strategic Litigation Workshop

HRLC was awarded Interdisciplinary Research Clusters Flexible Funding for a workshop to be held on 2-3 March 2020 at the University of Nottingham. Led by Professor Aoife Nolan (HRLC) and Professor Manfred Nowak (Global Campus for Human Rights), the workshop will bring together academic and other experts (practitioner, advocacy, policymaker) in order to develop an interdisciplinary proposal (law, political science, education, child development, sociology) on a series of different aspects of child rights-specific strategic litigation-related work, i.e. litigation premised on child rights that seeks to bring about legal and social change in terms of children's enjoyment of their rights. 

Confirmed participants at this point include:

• Joana Abrisketa (Assistant Professor of Public International Law at the University of Deusto, Bilbao)
• Neha Desai (Director of Immigration, National Centre for Youth Law, USA)
• Colin Gonsalves (Founder, Human Rights Law Network, India; RLF Laureate)
• Manu Krishan (Assistant to the Independent Expert leading the UN Global Study on Children Deprived of Liberty, Ludwig Boltzmann Institute of Human Rights, Vienna)
• Shauneen Lambe (Founder, Just for Kids Law and Impact Law for Social Justice, UK)
• Reina-Marie Loader (Children’s Rights Project Manager, Global Campus for Human Rights)
• Aoife Nolan (Member, Council of Europe, European Committee of Social Rights; Professor of International Human Rights Law, University of Nottingham)
• Conor O’Mahony (Director, UCC Child Law Clinic, Ireland; Irish Government Special Rapporteur on Child Protection).
• Karabo Ozah (Director, Centre for Child Law, Pretoria)
• Manfred Nowak (Independent Expert for the United Nations Global Study on Children Deprived of Liberty; Secretary General, Global Campus of Human Rights)
• Claire Tixiere (European Centre for Constitutional and Human Rights, Germany)

Attendance is by invitation only.