OxHRH Graduate Research Student Workshop 2021
The Oxford Human Rights Hub is pleased to announce its sixth workshop for human rights MPhil and DPhil students at Oxford University. This workshop will bring together and foster a network of graduate students and academics in various disciplines working in human rights at Oxford. The workshop will be exploring current debates on data protection and self-determination, the intersections between equality and religious freedom in India, same sex protection norms, business and human rights accountability mechanisms, image-based sexual abuse, environmental rights in the corporate anthropocene, the right to education and community values and derogation under human right treaties. It will also have a panel on publishing articles in academic journals.
Hourly Schedule
Day 1 - 26 May
- 02:00pm - 02:05pm
- Opening Remarks
- Sandra Fredman, Director of the Oxford Human Rights Hub
- 02:10pm - 03:30pm
- First panel
- Chair: Mónica Arango Olaya
- 02:10pm - 02:25pm
- Presenter: Lloyd Roughton. Discussant: Stefan Theil
- Towards Informational Self-Determination: Reforming Data Protection Law in the Age of Big Data and Surveillance Capitalism
- 02:25pm - 02:35pm
- Questions
- 02:35pm - 02:50pm
- Presenter: Anjali Rawat. Discussant: Barbara Havelková
- Adjudicating Polygyny in Muslims and Hindus in India- Constitutional Interrelationship between Gender Equality and Religious Freedom
- 02:50pm - 03:00pm
- Questions
- 03:00pm - 03:05pm
- Break
- 03:05pm - 04:00pm
- Second panel
- Chair: Tristan Cummings
- 03:05pm - 03:20pm
- Presenter: Oskar Sherry. Discussant: Sandy Fredman
- Dignity, Equality, Privacy: An examination of three central same-sex protection norms, from a comparative perspective.
- 03:20pm - 03:30pm
- Questions
- 03:35pm - 03:50pm
- Presenter: Danilo Garrido Alves. Discussant: Miles Jackson
- Business, Human Rights, and Multilateral Development Banks’ Accountability Mechanisms: conditions for effectiveness
- 03:50pm - 04:00pm
- Questions
Day 2 - 27 May
- 02:00pm - 02:05pm
- Welcome second day
- Sandra Fredman, Director of the Oxford Human Rights Hub
- 02:05pm - 03:20pm
- Third Panel
- Chair: Gauri Pillai
- 02:05pm - 02:20pm
- Presenter: Marthe Goudsmith. Discussant: Laura Hoyano
- The wrong of image-based sexual abuse: unwanted disclosures as human rights infringements
- 02:20pm - 02:25pm
- Questions
- 02:25pm - 02:40pm
- Presenter: Daniel Bertram. Discussant: Paul Craig
- Environmental Rights in the Corporate Anthropocene – Promise and Peril of Transnational Tort Litigation
- 02:40pm - 02:45pm
- Questions
- 02:45pm - 02:50pm
- Break
- 02:50pm - 03:05pm
- Presenter: Sarah Horsch Carsley. Discussant: Anne Davies
- The right to education and community values
- 03:05pm - 03:10pm
- Questions
- 03:10pm - 03:25pm
- Presenter: Natasha Holcroft-Emmess. Discussant: Meghan Campbell
- Human Rights in Conflicts and Crises: Derogation Under Human Rights Treaties
- 03:25pm - 03:30pm
- Questions
- 03:30pm - 03:35pm
- Break
- 03:35pm - 04:00pm
- Publishing your work
- Chair: Sandy Fredman
- 03:35pm - 03:50pm
- Liora Lazarus
- Professor of Law at the Peter A. Allard School of Law, University of British Columbia; Oxford Journal of Legal Studies
- 03:35pm - 03:50pm
- Meghan Campbell
- Senior Lecturer in Law, Birmingham Law School; Oxford Human Rights Hub Journal
- 03:50pm - 04:00pm
- Question
Organizer
Oxford Human Rights Hub
The Oxford Human Rights Hub (OxHRH) aims to bring together academics, practitioners, and policy-makers from across the globe to advance the understanding and protection of human rights and equality. Through the vigorous exchange of ideas and resources, we strive to facilitate a better understanding of human rights principles, to develop new approaches to policy, and to influence the development of human rights law and practice.