CCJHR Annual Conference
Marriage Equality, Relationship Recognition and Non-Discrimination: Securing Equality and Rights? - one-day conference supported by an Irish Research Council New Foundations award, the College of Business and Law and the Gender Law and Sexuality research cluster (GLAS), CCJHR.
- 19 Mar 2014
Marriage Equality, Relationship Recognition and Non-Discrimination: Securing Equality and Rights?
One day conference
March 28th 2014, 11.00 – 5.00pm
CCJHR Annual Conference Programme and Booking Information
Chaired by: The Hon Mr Justice John Hedigan
Address by Minister Kathleen Lynch T.D. Minister of State, Department of Health and Department of Justice, Equality and Defence with responsibility for Disability, Equality, Mental Health and Older People
Speakers include:
- Professor Robert Wintemute, School of Law, King’s College London (Keynote address)
- Prof Fiona de Londras, School of Law, Durham University
- Boris Dittrich, Advocacy Director, LGBT program, Human Rights Watch
- Nicholas Bamforth, School of Law, Oxford University
- Kieran Rose, Gay Lesbian Equality Network (GLEN) and Member Designate of the Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission Kieran Rose Annual Conference 2014
- Dr Louise Crowley, Faculty of Law, UCC Louise Crowley Annual Conference 2014
- Dr Conor O’Mahony, Faculty of Law UCC Conor O'Mahony Annual Conference 2014
- Dr Fergus Ryan, NUIM Fergus Ryan Annual Conference 2014
- Prof Siobhán Mullally, Faculty of Law, UCC
Speakers' Biographies: March 28 2014 Annual Conference Bios
Venue: Brookfield Health Sciences, BHSC Room GO1 , Brookfield Health Sciences Complex (BHSC) is located on the western side of the main UCC campus. http://conferencing.ucc.ie/MapUCC.htm
6 CPD Group points available
- Registration Fee: €60 (full rate)
- Reduced rate: €30 - the reduced fee is available to NGOs, barristers in their first five years in practice, trainee solicitors and solicitors with up to three years post qualification experience).
- Student registration (available to full-time students with valid ID) - €20
Advanced registration is essential. Online booking available at:
Alternatively please post booking fee (cheques made payable to CCJHR, Law Department, UCC) to
CCJHR
Marriage Equality Seminar-2014
Department of Law,
University College Cork
Cork, Ireland
Registration Fees
Full rate: €60
Reduced rate: €30
The reduced fee is available to NGOs, barristers in their first five years in practice, trainee solicitors and solicitors with up to three years post-qualification experience.
Student rate: €20 (available to full-time students with a valid ID card)
Email: ccjhr@ucc.ie
Tel:+353-( 0)21-4903220.
Setting the Agenda: http://www.ucc.ie/en/ccjhr/
Securing marriage equality has been described as the ‘civil rights issue of our generation’. The proposed constitutional reform follows on from significant legislative reforms in Ireland on civil partnerships, and further pending legislative reform on children’s rights and family relationships. Across Europe and internationally, constitutional and legislative reforms are taking place addressing rights to same sex marriage, sexual orientation and gender identity discrimination in areas such as adoption, guardianship and custody of children and more broadly in the field of relationship recognition. International human rights bodies, including the European and Inter-American Courts of Human Rights, and constitutional courts, are developing a significant body of jurisprudence on the scope and limits of anti-discrimination norms, and on the positive obligations arising for states to provide for marriage equality and relationship recognition. This conference brings together leading human rights advocates, lawyers and academics to address the many pressing questions that now face Ireland and other jurisdictions engaging in comprehensive reforms of family, constitutional, equality and human rights law.
Conference convenor: Prof Siobhán Mullally, Director, Centre for Criminal Justice and Human Rights, UCC, email s.mullally@ucc.ie and Dr Claire Murray, CCJHR, c.murray@ucc.ie
This event is supported by an Irish Research Council New Foundations award, the College of Business and Law and the Gender Law and Sexuality research cluster (GLAS), CCJHR.
