The Lunchtime Seminar Series plays host to prominent visiting academics and practitioners in the human rights field. These guests deliver one hour seminars addressing specific topical, current and cutting edge issues relevant to their areas of expertise. The seminars take place over the lunch hour and are open to the public.
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31 March,
Ziya Meral, University of Cambridge "Politics and Ethics of Acknowledgment of Historical Atrocities; a multi-disciplinary approach with specific reference to Armenian-Turkish disputes over 1915".
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15 March, Matt Pollard, Legal Advisor, Amnesty International
"Detention by International Forces: Legal Frameworks from the Copenhagen Process"
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12 March, Bill Oberly, Executive Director, The Alaska Innocence Project
'Exonerating the Wrongfully convicted through DNA Testing'
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4 March, Her Excellency Catherine Muigai Mwangi, Ambassador of Kenya to Ireland: ’
Does the Bill of Rights in the Draft Kenyan Constitution Reflect both African and International Best Practice?’
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1 February, 1300-1400, Rick Lines, Human Rights & Drug Policy ’
A vehicle for indirect penal reform’? – Article 3 of the European Convention on Human Rights.’
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29 January, 1300-1400, Colm O'Cuanachain, Policy Director, Amnesty International ’
Human Rights Education’