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Professor Kevin Boyle and his work: Saturday 11 June 2011 

An international tripartite video-conference between the National University of Ireland Galway, Queen’s University Belfast, and the University of Essex, in honour of the life and work of Professor Kevin Boyle.


Panelists Include:

• Professor Sir Nigel Rodley
• Professor William Schabas 
• Professor Tom Hadden
• Dr. Corinne Lennox 
• Walter Kirwan
• Professor Brice Dickson
  
• Marie McGonagle
  
• Darren Dinsmore
• Tony Fisher              
  

Professor Kevin Boyle, who passed away on 25 December 2010 at the age of 67, was one of Ireland’s greatest human rights lawyers. He began his career at Queen’s University Belfast in the late 1960s. There, he was deeply engaged in the civil rights movement. He moved to the National University of Ireland Galway in the late 1970s where he took the initiative to launch the Irish Centre for Human Rights. The last two decades of his life were spent at the University of Essex, where he directed its human rights centre. In addition to his enormous academic contribution, Kevin Boyle was active with important international NGOS such as Article 19, of which he was the founding director. He served as a special advisor to Mary Robinson when she was High Commissioner for Human Rights. He appeared frequently before the European Court of Human Rights, winning important cases that dealt with a broad range of issues, including freedom of expression, discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation, and torture. The Conference is jointly organized by the three Universities where Kevin Boyle spent his career. It is a tribute to his work and focuses on the big themes in human rights with which he was most engaged. 

Mary Robinson  

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