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Centre Co-Director, Dr. James Harrison will be speaking at an event in Edinburgh entitled "Equality and Human Rights Impact Assessments: making them work for you" on 1 October in Edinburgh. The event is designed to explore how Equality and Human Rights Impact Assessments (EQHRIA) can be used as tools that can help any organisation, whether public, voluntary or private to improve the lives of the people of Scotland. For more inormation about the event click here.

Dr. Harrison will be talking about the The 10 Good Practice Building Blocks which he designed to assist public authorities and those carrying out public functions in Scotland to undertake equality and human rights impact assessments (EQHRIAs) that will lead to better outcomes for the individuals and communities they serve. You can find out more about those building blocks here.

Ten law students from the University of Warwick are travelling to the United States as part of Warwick’s Death Penalty Project. The internship, which is now in its 10th year, is run through the Centre for Human Rights in Practice.

Centre co-director Prof Andrew Williams (Warwick Law School), has published a new collection of essays on ‘Europe's Justice Deficit?’ (Hart) co-edited with Prof Gráinne de Búrca (NYU Law School) and Prof Dimitry Kochenov (Groningen Faculty of Law). The book explores the place to be occupied by the underlying substantive ideal of justice in the EU between the market-oriented foundation of the Union and the contemporary essence of its constitutional system. A launch event was held at LSE on June 4^th which also hosted a debate between Justice Giuliano Amato (former Prime Minister of Italy and Constitutional Judge) and Professor Christian Joerges (Hertie School of Governance, Berlin). More info on the debate can be found on eutopia and on verfassungsblog.