Warwick Law School-Centre for Globalisation and Regionalisation

29 -31 March 2006

Scarman House, University of Warwick, UK

Programme of Events

Wednesday, 29 March 2006

3.30pm - 4.30pm

5.00pm - 7.00pm

Chair: Upendra Baxi, Professor of Law, University of Warwick

Boaventura de Sousa Santos (Keynote Speaker), Professor of Sociology at the School of Economics, University of Coimbra and Legal Scholar, University of Wisconsin-Madison Law School
Shirin Rai, Professor of Politics and UInternational relations, University of Warwick
Jane Kelsey, Professor of Law, University of Auckland
Patrick Bond, Director, Centre for Civil Society, University of Kwazulu-Natal

7.00pm - 8.00pm

Thursday, 30 March 2006

9.30am -11.00am

Upendra Baxi: Amartya Sen and Human Rights
Peter Fitzpatrick: Is Humanity Enough? The Secular Theology of Human Rights
Robert Fine: Cosmopolitanism and Human Rights

Lecture Room 8, Scarman House
Chair: Julio Faundez

Jane Kelsey: Development, Coherence of Global Economic Policy Making and Privatisation of Services
Sol Picciotto: The WTO as a Node of Global Governance: Economic Regulation and Human Rights Discourses
Shirin Rai: Feminising Global Governance
Peter Muchlinski: Discussant

Lecture Room 8, Scarman House
Chair: Ralf Rogowski

Alan Norrie: Crime and the Failure of Law: Arendt, Jaspers and the Ontology of Guilt
Istvan Pogany: Poets, Revolutionaries and Shoemakers: Law and the Construction of National Identity in Central Europe during the Long Nineteenth Century
John Harrington:Law, Globalization and the NHS: Producing the Space of Medical Law

Lecture Room 8, Scarman House
Chair: George Meszaros

Sundhya Pahuja: Development and the Rule of Law
Dwijen Rangnekar: A Shrinking of the Public Domain in Agriculture: A Cartography of Contemporary Developments in Intellectual Property Rights in Plant Material
Abdul Paliwala: Free Culture, Global Commons and Social Justice in Information Technology Diffusion

Syndicate Room 25, Scarman House
Chair: Ann Stewart

Samia Bano: Muslim Family Justice and Human Rights: The Experience of British Muslim Women
Shraddha Chigateri: The Recognition-Redistribution Debate and Articulations of Injustice: Insights from Dalit Feminist Politics in India
Ayesha Shahid: Domestic Household Workers in Pakistan

3.30pm - 4.00pm

Syndicate Room 24, Scarman House
Chair: Abdul Paliwala

Patrick McAuslan: High Theory, Low Practice: Where's the Social Justice?
William Twining: Human Rights, Southern Voices
Andrew Williams: Human Rights and Law: Between Sufferance and Insufferability

Friday, 31 March 2006

Lecture Room 8, Scarman House
Chair: Sammy Adelman

Anthony Woodiwiss: What Might it Mean to Take Human Rights Seriously
Obiora Okafor: Assessing Baxi’s Thesis on the Emergence of the Emergence of a Trade-Related Market-Friendly Human Rights Paradigm: Recent Evidence from the Nigerian Labor Rights Context
Patrick Bond: Water Commodification in South Africa: Debating Rights, the Market and ‘Free Basic Water’

10.30am - 11.00am

Lecture Room 8, Scarman House
Chair: Jayan Nayar

Koen De Feyter: Localizing Human Rights
Phil Shiner: Human Rights Action Through the Courts
Balakrishnan Rajagopal: Rights Talk and Justice Talk: What is at Stake?

12.30pm - 1.30pm

Franklyn Lisk: A Rights-based Approach to Addressing HIV/AIDS in the Workplace: The Role and Contribution of the ILO and its Constituents
Reena Patel: Women’s Work, Perceived Contribution and Access To Land In India

Madhu Mehra: Women's Equality and Culture in the context of identity politics
Manjit Bhatia NGOs' Interventions As A Conduit Between Police and Judiciary To Deliver Justice to Women Victims of Violence in the State of Rajasthan, India.

Garton Kamchedzera: New Global Development Assistance Modalities and the Rights of the Orphaned Child
Amy Shee & Bernard Kao: Impact of Globalisation on the Family Law of Taiwan

Terry Lovell: Reflections on the Recognition Redistribution Debate: Bourdieu dnd Fraser?
Ann Stewart: Who Can We Care About? Reflections on Gender and Trade Chains
Julie Stewart: What Do You Want Me To Do Next?: A View from the Village

Additional Papers to Be Tabled for Discussion

Jon Yorke: Towards a European Ideology of the Worldwide Abolition of the Death Penalty: A Fusion of Juridical Discourse and Political Action