Events
1. Being Social: The Human Right Against Social Deprivation
The Castan Centre for Human Rights Law presents:
“Being Social: The Human Right Against Social Deprivation”
Presented by: Associate Professor Kimberley Brownlee, University of Warwick
Date: Wednesday 16 April, 2014
Time: 6-7pm
Venue: Melbourne City Conference Centre Chapel, 333 Swanston Street, (Cnr Little Lonsdale and Swanston Streets), Melbourne
RSVP: castan.centre@monash.edu or telephone 03 9905 3327
Full details available on the website
Public lecture – All welcome
Kimberley Brownlee an Associate Professor of Legal and Moral Philosophy at the University of Warwick. Prior to this, she was a Lecturer and Senior Lecturer at the University of Manchester. Her work focuses on conscience, conviction, civil disobedience, the ethics of sociability, ideals, virtue, practical reason, and human rights. Kimberley holds a BA (First Class Hons.) in Philosophy from McGill University, an MPhil in Philosophy from Cambridge, and a DPhil in Philosophy from Oxford (Rhodes Scholar).
2. Clinics, Professional Competence and Social Responsibility
Presented by: Professor Frank Bloch, Professor of Law Emeritus, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee.
Date: Wednesday 30 April, 2014
Time: 6pm – 7.30pm (including refreshments)
Venue: Courtyard of Monash-Oakleigh Legal Service, 60 Beddoe Avenue, Clayton
Cost: Free
RSVP: Thursday 17 April, 2014 via e-mail law-marketing@monash.edu or call 03 9905 2630
Professor Frank Bloch Frank S Bloch is Professor of Law Emeritus at Vanderbilt University Law School in Nashville, Tennessee, where he served as Director of Clinical Education and as Director of the Social Justice Program. Currently he serves as Executive Secretary of the Global Alliance for Justice Education (GAJE). Professor Bloch is an internationally prominent expert on legal aid and clinical legal education, as well as social security, disability, and other public benefit programs. He is the author or editor of nine books and has published over 35 articles and book chapters, focusing most recently on the global movement in clinical legal education. He was a Fulbright Professor at Delhi University and has served as a consultant to the International Social Security Association, the Administrative Conference of the United States, the Social Security Advisory Board, and the US Agency for International Development. Before joining the faculty at Vanderbilt, he taught at the University of Chicago Law School and practised law with California Rural Legal Assistance. Professor Bloch is a member of the National Academy of Social Insurance. He holds a BA and a PhD (Politics) from Brandeis University and a JD from Columbia University Law School.
3. Hate Speech Laws: What They Should and Shouldn’t Try to Do
The Castan Centre for Human Rights presents:
“Hate Speech Laws: What They Should and Shouldn’t Try to Do”
Presented by: Professor Gavin Phillipson, University of Durham
Date: Wednesday 23 April, 2014
Time: 6pm – 7pm
Venue: Monash University Law Chamber, 555 Lonsdale Street, Melbourne
RSVP: castan.centre@monash.edu or telephone 03 9905 3327
Full details available on the website
Gavin Phillipson has held a Chair in Law at the University of Durham since January 2007 and is a qualified solicitor. His research interests lie in the fields of European and UK human rights law, especially freedom of expression and the interface of those fields with public law and constitutional and political theory. He has written widely in these areas in top UK, US and Canadian journals, including the Modern Law Review, Law Quarterly Review, Current Legal Problems, Cambridge Law Journal, Public Law, McGill Law Journal and Law & Contemporary Problems.
4. Homicide – An Investigator’s Insight
“HOMICIDE AN INVESTIGATOR’S INSIGHT”
What happens behind the scenes as police build their cases to bring criminals to trial?
An insight will be provided by guest speaker, Ron Iddles
Date: Tuesday 15 April, 2014
Time: 7pm for 7.30pm start
Venue: Alexander Theatre, Building 7, Monash University, Wellington Road, Clayton
Tickets $30 per person including light refreshments
For further information see the flyer