Irish Centre for Human Rights
National University of Ireland Galway
14th Annual Doctoral Seminar
27 April – 1 May 2015
Program
Monday, 27 April
9:30
Welcoming Remarks, Professor Michael O’Flaherty, Director, Irish Centre for
Human Rights
Opening Remarks, Professor Donncha O'Connell, Head, School of Law
9:45
Expert Presentation, Professor William Schabas, Irish Centre for Human Rights /
Middlesex University, The Customary International Law of Human Rights
11:00
*One minute’s silence for victims from Garissa University College, Kenya*
Coffee Break
11:30
Andrew Forde, Kosovo under International Human Rights Law Post-2008: A
Socio-Legal Reflection
12:00
Bochao Yang, Challenges to Chinese Peacekeeping Initiatives
12:30
Sally Anne Corcoran, The Impact of Women on the Protection of Human Rights in
Peacekeeping
13:00
Lunch
14:15
Caroline Sweeney, A Historic Overview of External Involvement in Syria Prior to
the 2011 Unrest
14:45
Cian Moran, Humanitarian Intervention and the 1971 India-Pakistan War
15:15
Gene Carolan, Maynooth University, Mightier than the Sword: Peace Agreement
Design and the Law
15:45
Coffee break
16:00
Academic Workshop, Professor William Schabas, Irish Centre for Human Rights /
Middlesex University, “Research Methodology”
19:00
Dinner at Cooke’s Restaurant, 28 Abbeygate Street
Tuesday, 28 April
9:30
Expert Presentation, Professor Yutaka Arai, Takahashi, University of Kent at
Brussels, The Relationship between IHL and International Criminal Law - Salutary
Osmosis
11:00
Coffee Break
11:30
Leonard Taylor, Catholicism and the Structure of International Law
12:00
Mesenbet Assefa, The State of Democracy and Freedom of Expression in
Ethiopia: Contemporary Challenges
12:30
Nicholas McMurry, A History of the Principle of Participation in Human Rights
13:00
Lunch
14:15
Niloufar Omidi, The Methodology for Establishing the “Right” to “Peace”
14:45
Okeremute O. Okeregha, Women’s Right in the Context of Business and
Human Rights Agenda
15:15
Tanja Florath, The International Legal Regime on Enforced Disappearance: A
Critical Approach
15:45
Coffee break
16:00
Academic Workshop, Dr Shane Darcy, “Publishing & Conference Participation”
Wednesday, 29 April
9:30
Expert Presentation, Dr. Annyssa Bellal, Legal Adviser Geneva Call, Legal
Challenges for Compliance by Non-State Armed Groups
11:00
Coffee Break
11:30
Bethany Alhaidari, Political and Religious Dissent in Saudi Arabia
12:00
Sarah Creedon, Rape and the Principle of Personal Culpability in International
Criminal Law
12:30
Silvia Gagliardi, Post-2011 Morocco: More or Less Rights for Minority and
Indigenous Women?
13:00
Lunch
14:15
Peter Gallagher, Lethal Autonomous Weapons Systems: Can Their Use be
Amenable to International Law?
14:45
Thamil Ananthavinayagan, Sri Lanka – a Post-war Society and Laboratory for the
United Nations Human Rights Council
15:15
Galway Walking Tour
Thursday, 30 April
9: 30
Expert Presentation, Professor Jeroen Temperman, Erasmus University
Rotterdam, Religious Hatred in International Law
10:45
Coffee Break
11:15
Charlotte May-Simera, Centre for Disability Law and Policy: What Theory for a
Study on the Employment of People with Intellectual Disability
11:45
Séan Ó Duibhir, Department of History, NUIG, Vindicating the rights of suspects
or ensuring State security?: The reaction of the Irish Government to the Garda
‘Heavy Gang’ allegations, 1977-1978
12:15
Academic Workshop, Dr. Kathleen Cavanaugh, “Conducting Field Work:
Qualitative and Quantitative Methods”
13:00
Lunch
14:15
Individual GRC Meetings: Alexis Bushnell (14:15); Bethany Alhaidari (14:30);
Sarah Creedon (14:45); Silvia Gagliardi (15:00); Caroline Sweeney (15:15); Amina
Adanan (15:30); Leonard Taylor (15:45); Nicholas McMurry (16:00); Okeremute
O. Okeregha (16:15); Elisabeth Koek (16:30); Reem Mujadedi (16:45); Andrew
Forde (17:00)
Friday, 1 May
10:00
Individual GRC Meetings: Mesenbet Assefa (10:00); Niloufar Omidi (10:15); Sally
Anne Corcoran(10:30); Cian Moran (10:45); Bochao Yang (11:00);Tanja Florath
(11:15); Thamil Ananthavinayagan (11:30); Peter Gallagher(11.45); Hadeel Abu
Hussein (12:00).
Close of Seminar