Eleventh Annual Student Human Rights Conference 2010
New Technologies: Your Life? Your Health? Your
Privacy? Our Human Rights.
Saturday, 20 March 2010
Law and Social Sciences Building, University of Nottingham
Programme
09.00
Welcome Refreshments and Registration
Atrium/Room B63
09.30
Conference Opening
Room B63
09.35
Morning Session
Room B63
New Technologies and Human Rights: An Overview
Thérèse Murphy, Professor of Law & Critical Theory, University of Nottingham
Can International Human Rights be a Lingua Franca for Bioethics?
Richard Ashcroft, Professor of Bioethics, Queen Mary, University of London
10.45
Refreshments
11.15
Delegates choose between two student-led discussion groups, which will run simultaneously:
Panel 1: Big Brother in Europe?
Chaired by Helen McNally
Atrium
Room B1
New Technologies and the EU as an Emerging ‘Surveillance Society’: What about our Privacy?
Maria Tzanou, European University Institute, Italy
The Implications of Copyright Infringement on the Right to Data Protection in European Union Law
in the Context of Peer-to-Peer Technology
Orla Lynskey, University of Cambridge, UK
Are the Proposed Legislative Changes Regarding DNA Databases in the UK and Ireland Compliant
with the European Convention on Human Rights?
Maria Murphy, University College Cork, Ireland
Panel 2: Global Justice 2.0
Chaired by Ciana-Marie Pegus
Room A4
Human Rights Defenders and New Technologies: The Challenging Impact of Information and
Communications Technology on Human Rights Protection
Tara O’Leary, London School of Economics & Political Science, UK
Between Clicks and Mortals: Mapping Open Case Files of Grave Human Rights Violations in Bosnia
and Herzegovina
Emilie Hunter, European University Institute, Italy
12.30
Lunch
13.30
Afternoon Session
Atrium
Room B63
Chaired by Professor David Harris, Co-Director of the Human Rights Law Centre, University
of Nottingham
Human Rights: A GPS for Internet Governance
Lee Hibbard, Media & Information Society Division, Council of Europe
New Media, New Challenges
Dave Banisar, Senior Legal Counsel, ARTICLE 19
14.45
Refreshments
15.00
Delegates choose between two student-led discussion groups, which will run simultaneously:
Panel 3: Freedom of Expression and the Internet
Chaired by Meredith Schwane
Atrium
Room B1
The Internet and Rationale for Free Expression
Angela Daly, European University Institute, Italy
Indonesia, Human Rights and the New Media: The Legal Battle of Freedom of Expression
R. Herlambang Perdana Wiratraman, University of Leiden
The Untapped Digital Potential of the Convention on the Rights of the Child
Stefan Kulk, University of Amsterdam
Panel 4: Tools to Advance Human Rights
Chaired by Adam Qureshi
Room A4
The ICC’s Legal Tools: Human Rights Implications of New Technologies in Field of International
Criminal Justice
Annika Jones, University of Nottingham, UK
Documenting Human Rights Abuse and Crowd-Sourcing the Problem
John Lannon, Leeds Metropolitan University, UK
16.15
Closing Remarks from Professor David Harris, Co-Director of the Human Rights
Law Centre, University of Nottingham
Room B63
The Human Rights Law Centre wishes to acknowledge the support of LexisNexis for this conference.