2007 Press Releases
Conference on Criminal Justice and Human Rights at UCC, 3 May
The Centre for Criminal Justice and Human Rights, Faculty of Law, UCC
will host the first postgraduate conference on criminal justice and
human rights in UCC on Thursday, 3 May 2007.
This one-day international conference will attract postgraduate
research scholars whose work pertains to criminal justice and human
rights. In addition to exploring topics specific to the scholarship of
criminal justice or human rights, the conference aims to consider the
intersections of both fields. The conference will serve as a forum for
discussion and debate among researchers within both fields and between the two fields of study themselves.
The keynote speaker for the event is Mr Mark Kelly, Director, Irish Council for Civil Liberties.
Papers will be presented by over 30 scholars in areas such as:
- Discourses of rights and crime
- New directions in human rights enforcement
- Human Rights, Criminal Justice and the War on Terror
- Transitional justice
- ECHR and domestic law
- Asylum and immigration law
- Multiculturalism, minority rights and human rights
- New trends in International criminal justice
- Gender and Human Rights
- Policing
- Victimology
- Juvenile justice
- Punishment and penal policy
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