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International Symposia on Freedom of Association: Call for Participants

5 Oct 2022

The virtual symposium will be held in March 2023 followed by an in-person hybrid symposium at University College Cork in June 2023.

The right to freedom of association is recognised as a human right in constitutions and international human rights treaties throughout the world. Yet caselaw and scholarship on this fundamental right is relatively sparse. Perhaps this is because the right to freedom of association is so unusual: it recognises and protects individuals, but in their sociality rather than their individuality. It thereby transcends the individual-state paradigm by relying on the existence and flourishing of private associations.

SOCIETAS is a four-year funded project led by Maria Cahill (School of Law, UCC) exploring the potential of freedom of association, beginning with a comparative doctrinal analysis of the ways in which this right is understood and vindicated across multiple jurisdictions.

The research team will host a virtual symposium on the right to freedom of association in March 2023 followed by an in-person hybrid symposium at University College Cork in June 2023. The events will sketch out the legal nature, scope and potential of the right to freedom of association in legal systems around the world. We are eager to hear from lawyers in as many different jurisdictions as possible and particularly from lawyers in Africa, Asia, Oceania, and South America.

“Mapping the Legal Landscape of Freedom of Association”

Virtual Symposium

Friday 31st March 2023

“The Purpose and Potential of Freedom of Association”

In-Person Hybrid Symposium

June 2023, date to be confirmed in December 2022

The purpose of these events is to build collaboration among a network of scholars who are working on freedom of association and to explore this right from a comparative perspective. These events will lead to an edited comparative study of the right to freedom of association in legal systems around the world.

Full details of the symposia can be found in the following document: Freedom of Association Symposia - Call for Participants

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