Conference Was Opened By The Conference Coordinator: Mrs. Michelle W. Eriksson (BA-Advanced) (MSc), LLM Candidate

Session 1, "Economic Goods or Fundamental Rights?", was chaired by Ms Emily Polack (BA), LLM Candidate

The Speakers Were:

• Fletcher Tembo (PhD), Senior Economic Justice Policy Adviser, WorldVision UK
  Session Topic: "Zambia, Economic Goods and Fundamental rights: towards poverty reduction"
• Julie Stewart, Professor of Law & Director, Southern and Eastern African Centre for Women's Rights, University of Zimbabwe
  Session Topic: "What do you want me to do next? A View from the Village"
• Jacob John, LLM Candidate
  Session Topic: Modernity, the Poor, Human Rights and the Experience of the Greater Bangalore Water Supply Programme

Session 2, "Law in Activist Contexts", was chaired by Ms Shivakami RaviChandran (LLB), LLM Candidate

The Speakers Were:

• Shreyas Jayasimha, Lawyer, Bangalore, India
  Session Topic: "Reflexive Litigation"
• Goh Chien Yen, Third World Network (TWN)
  Session Topic: "WTO and the Activities of TWN"
• Kenny Wan (LLB), LLM Candidate
  Session Topic: "The Doha Round in Hong Kong: A first-hand Account"

Session 3, "Law from Below", was co-chaired by Richard Bowyer (LLB) and Richard Goulet (LLB) (MA); LLM Candidates

The Speakers Were:

• Balakrishnan Rajagopal, Professor of Law & Director, MIT Program on Human Rights and Justice; Author, International Law from Below
  Session Topic: "Can human rights be Anti-Imperial?"
• Obiora Okafor, Professor of Law, Osgoode Hall, York University (Toronto)
  Session Topic: "Reconceiving 'Third World' Legitimate Governance Struggles"

Following the three IDLHR Sessions, an Open Panel & Plenary Session on Human Rights and Global Justice was held.
Chaired by Professor Upendra Baxi from the University of Warwick, there were four distinguished speakers.
See the Rights and Justice Page for more information.

In Cooperation With:
Human Rights and
Global Justice Conference

Information about the
LLM in IDLHR

The School of Law and the IDLHR Programme would like to thank the Speakers and all those students who attended for making the 1st Annual Conference an outstanding success.

We hope the tradition can continue with next year's IDLHR programme.