• Type: Seminar Series
• Series organiser: Bonavero Institute of Human Rights (University of Oxford)
• Timing: Tuesdays at 12.30pm
• Web Address: https://www.law.ox.ac.uk/research-and-subject-groups/bonavero-discussion-group
• Organising department: Faculty of Law

Tuesday 2 February 2021

• 12:30 - Challenging Laws: Progress and Prospects in Overturning 150 Years of Discriminatory Sexual Offence Legislation in the Commonwealth
  Téa Braun (Human Dignity Trust), Edwin Cameron (Retired Judge of the Constitutional Court of South Africa)

Tuesday 9 February 2021

• 12:30 - Academic Freedom as a Human Right?
  Renáta Uitz (Central European University), Stefan Theil (Bonavero Institute of Human Rights)

Tuesday 16 February 2021

• 12:30 - Corporate Human Rights Due Diligence in Practice: The Union Hidalgo Case in France
  Alejandra Ancheita (Proyecto de Derechos Económicos, Sociales y Culturales, AC (ProDESC)), Miriam Saage-Maaß (European Center for Constitutional and Human Rights (ECCHR)), Surya Deva (City University of Hong Kong)

Tuesday 23 February 2021

• 12:30 - The UN Human Rights Committee’s General Comment 37 on the Right of Peaceful Assembly: A Conversation
  Christof Heyns (Former Member, United Nations Human Rights Committee), Marko Milanovic (University of Nottingham)

Tuesday 2 March 2021

• 12:30 - Religion is Secularised Tradition: Jewish and Muslim Circumcisions in Germany
  Lena Salaymeh (Oxford), John Bowers QC (University of Oxford)

Tuesday 9 March 2021

• 12:30 - From Compliance Partners to Gatekeepers? The Role of Domestic Courts in Interpreting and Enforcing IHRL
  Raffaela Kunz (Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law), Alejandro Chehtman (Universidad Torcuato Di Tella (Argentina))

Tuesday 27 April 2021

• 12:30 - The UN CESCR's General Comment 25 on the Right to Enjoy the Benefits of Scientific Progress
  Rodrigo Uprimny (UN Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights), Leah Trueblood (University of Oxford)

Tuesday 4 May 2021

• 12:30 - The Cab Rank Rule in the Commonwealth: Reflections on the Ethical Duties of Lawyers
  Gautam Bhatia (University of Oxford), Geoffrey Budlender SC (South African Advocate), Helen Mountfield, QC (Mansfield College)

Tuesday 11 May 2021

• 12:30 - Do Companies have Human Rights? - The Emerging Jurisprudence in Regional Courts
  Patricia Wiater (University of Erlangen-Nürnberg), Nick Friedman (University of Cambridge)

Tuesday 18 May 2021

• 12:30 - Automated Decision Making and its Impact on Human Rights in a Time of COVID-19
  Eliška Pírková (Access Now), Mathias Vermeulen (AWO)

Tuesday 25 May 2021

• 12:30 - Mapping the Way Forward for Human Rights in Scotland
  Alan Miller (University of Strathclyde), Hayley Hooper (University of Oxford)

Tuesday 12 October 2021

• 12:30 - Towards a Normative Theory of Just Riots
  Jonathan Havercroft (University of Southampton), Dr Nadine El-Enany (Birkbeck)

Tuesday 26 October 2021

• 12:30 - Assam Citizenship Verification Process and India's Citizenship Amendment Act
  This event will run as a Zoom webinar. To attend, register here: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_z2-rIKgNQmyfui-bn_obew
  Rupali Samuel (Parichay), Bronwen Manby (London School of Economics and Political Science)