"Human Rights and Global Challenges" Conference

Monday 10th December 

Opening Address

The Hon Elizabeth Evatt AC
"Making an Effective International System for the Protection of Human Beings"

Session 1

BILL OF RIGHTS

Chair : Felicity Hampel, SC, Melbourne

Associate Professor Jim Allan, Faculty of Law, University of Otago, New Zealand
"Oh that I were made Judge in the Land"

Julie Debeljak, Associate Director, Castan Centre for Human Rights Law, Monash University
"Human Rights as Judicial Politics or Parliamentary Judgements"

Session 2

SELF DETERMINATION

Chair : Melissa Castan, Monash University 

Professor Larissa Behrendt, Director, Jumbunna, Centre for Australian Indigenous Studies, Education and Research,
University of Technology, Sydney
"Indigenous Self determination in the age of Globalisation"

Dr Anne Orford, Faculty of Law, University of Melbourne
"Self Determination in an Age of Intervention"

Session 3

PRIVATISATION OF HUMAN RIGHTS: Conceptual Conundrums

Chair :Professor Tom Campbell, Charles Sturt University, Canberra

Professor Mark Tushnet, Law School, Georgetown University, USA
"The State Action Doctrine in Comparative Constitutional Law"

Professor David Kinley, Director, Castan Centre for Human Rights Law, Monash University 
"The Shrinking State's Growing Responsibilities for Human Rights Protection"

Session 4

PRIVATISATION OF HUMAN RIGHTS: Practical problems

Chair : Professor Bryan Horrigan, University of Canberra

Sarah Joseph, Associate Director, Castan Centre for Human Rights Law, Monash University
"The 'Third Wave' of Corporate Human Rights Accountability : Pharmaceuticals and Human Rights"

Dr Bronwyn Naylor, Faculty of Law, Monash University
"Prisons, Privatisation and Human Rights"

Tuesday, 11 December

Session 5

CULTURAL RELATIVITY OF HUMAN RIGHTS

Chair : Andrea Durbach, Public Interest Advocacy, Sydney

Associate Professor Mail Stivens
Director, Women's Studies, Department of History, University of Melbourne
"Human Rights & Gender Politics in an Asian Context"

Professor Martin Krygier, Faculty of Law, University of New South Wales,
"Transitional Questions About the Rule of Law : Why, What and How?"

Session 6

HUMAN RIGHTS AND COMMUNITY AWARENESS

Chair : Susanna Lobez, ABC Radio National

Chris Sidoti, Human Rights Consultant, Sydney
"Beyond the Elites"

Liz Jackson, ABC journalist, Sydney
"Outside the Comfort Zone - Reporting on Human Rights"

Session 7

ECONOMIC, SOCIAL AND CULTURAL RIGHTS

Chair : Simon Rice, Australian Lawyers for Human Rights

Professor Keith Ewing, School of Law, King's College London, UK
"The Indivisibility of Human Rights - The Constitutional Protection of Social Rights"

Di Otto, Faculty of Law, University of Melbourne
"Resisting the Erosion of Economic and Social Rights : What Role can Legal Discourse Play"

Session 8

THE ROLE OF INTERNATIONAL ORGANISATIONS IN HUMAN RIGHTS PROTECTION

Chair : Professor Gillian Triggs, University of Melbourne

Professor Ivan Shearer, Faculty of Law, University of Sydney
"The UN Human Rights Committee : Impressions of a New Member"

Professor Peter Muchlinski, Faculty of Law, University of Kent at Canterbury, UK
"Human Rights, Social Responsibility and Regulation of International Business: The Development of International Standards by Intergovernmental Organisations"