HRLC Summer School on the Rights of the Child

Date(s)
Monday 23rd (09:00) - Friday 27th June 2014 (17:00)
Description

The HRLC Summer School on the Rights of the Child is an exciting programme which considers issues concerning the rights of the child that are a matter of current legal, political and societal attention, both internationally and comparatively. These include violence against children, child participation, child poverty, and child rights monitoring and advocacy. There will be devoted sessions to international and regional child rights law, including the work of the international courts and treaty monitoring bodies mandated to consider violations of the rights of the child.

The Summer School faculty are all highly experienced international experts on child rights, with backgrounds in advocacy, research and practice.

The Summer School faculty for 2014 includes:

  •  Professor Michael Freeman, Emeritus Professor of Law, University College London and Editor of International Journal of Children’s Right;
  •  Professor Matthew Happold, Professor in International Public Law, University of Luxembourg;
  •  Professor Ursula Kilkelly, Head of the department of Law and Director of the Child Law Clinic, University College Cork;
  •  Professor Laura Lundy, Director of the Children’s Rights Centre, Queen’s University, Belfast;
  •  Dr Benyam Dawit Mezmur, Chairperson of the African Committee of Experts on the Rights and Welfare of the Child of the African Union, and member of the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child;
  •  Dr Najat Maalla M’jid, former UN Special Rapporteur on the Sale of Children, Child Prostitution and Child Pornography;  
  •  Lisa Myers, Director of the NGO Group for the Convention on the Rights of the Child, Geneva.

For further information please visit the HRLC Summer School homepage or contact Miss Kobie Neita - +44 (0)115 84 66309.

 

Human Rights Law Centre

School of Law
University of Nottingham
University Park
Nottingham, NG7 2RD

+44 (0)115 846 8506
hrlc@nottingham.ac.uk