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Venue
Australian Centre for China in the World Lecture Theatre, Building 188, Fellows Lane, Acton
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Event description
This public lecture by Professor Peter Danchin (University of Maryland) and Professor Shruti Rana (Indiana University) with commentary from Professor Philip Alston (New York University) seeks to address the fundamental problem of how to reconceive engagement by states with the international legal order in the face of a sustained populist backlash. The ARC funded project ‘Reconceiving Engagement with International Law in a Populist Era’ based at the ANU College of Law and led by Chief Investigators Professor Jeremy Farrall, Professor Jolyon Ford and Associate Professor Imogen Saunders will also be launched at this event.
Refreshments from 5.30pm with the lecture to start at 6pm.
Speakers
Featured Speakers
Professor Peter Danchin is Associate Dean for Research and Faculty Development, Jacob A. France Professor of Law and co-director of the International and Comparative Law Program at the University of Maryland Francis King Carey School of Law. His areas of interest include international law, human rights, comparative constitutional law and legal theory.
Professor Shruti Rana is a professor of law at Indiana University. Her research focuses on international and comparative law, specifically in the areas of corporate governance and social responsibility, gender and human rights, business and technology policy, and immigration and refugee law.
Professor Philip Alston AO teaches at New York University Law School. He was the UN Special Rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights (2014-20) and on extrajudicial executions (2004-10), as well as the Chair of the UN Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (1991-98).