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Executive LLM at LSE Released on 11 May 2012 Contributors: Professor David Kershaw, Professor Conor Gearty, Professor Niamh Moloney, Dr Kristen Rundle, Ms Elina Zlatanska This film has been produced to promote the new Executive Master of Laws Programme being offered by the Law Department at the ...
Conversations - Conor Gearty, Professor of Human Rights Law
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In the second Policy and practitioner Conversation Professor of Human Rights Law Conor Gearty talks extensively about human rights, enforcement and national sovereignty. In particular he discusses the 'fit' between human rights and the challenges posed by the need to manage climate change and ...
The Burning Issue: The DNA of Human Rights
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'What are human rights and where do they come from?', asks Professor Conor Gearty in the latest Burning Issue lecture from the London School of Economics and Political Science. Gearty, a professor of human rights law and a practising barrister, looks at the history of human rights and ideas that ...
The Burning Issue: Right to Die
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In a humane society, should it be legal to help those who are suffering terribly to end their lives? Emily Jackson, professor of law at LSE, tackles this provocative issue in a public lecture entitled 'Right to Die'. Professor Jackson looks at how the law deals with the issue of assisted dying. ...
The Burning Issue: Parasites - enemy of the poor
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For millions of the world's poor, parasitic infections can be debilitating or even lethal. There are high hopes for new mass medication programmes but treatment has not always proceeded as planned, and in some cases there has been fierce local resistance. In this Burning Issue public lecture, Tim ...
Climate Change needs Climate Justice
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Speaker: Mary Robinson Chair: Professor Conor Gearty This event was recorded on 10 March 2011 in Old Theatre, Old Building The debate on climate change is moving from stopping it to how best to manage its effects. Climate justice links human rights and development to achieve a human-centered ...
Literary Festival 2011 - This House Believes that the Future of Rights is Left not Right
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Speakers: David Davis MP, Professor Conor Gearty Chair: Professor Francesca Klug This event was recorded on 17 February 2011 in Wolfson Theatre, New Academic Building For the past twenty weeks Conor Gearty has been writing a collaborative book online, at www.therightsfuture.com, with an essay ...
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In the first of an initial series of three videos, Professor Conor Gearty|, professor of law and head of human rights at LSE, talks of his passion for teaching -- and what makes teaching at LSE so special. 'One of the remarkable features of a successful institution such as LSE's Department of Law ...
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Speakers: Professor Costas Douzinas, Professor Conor Gearty, Professor Francesca Klug, David Lammy This event was recorded on 6 October 2010 in Sheikh Zayed Theatre, New Academic Building Conor Gearty joins invited guests to initiate The Rights' Future a collaborative writing project aimed at the ...
Human Rights after Darwin: is a general theory of human rights now possible?
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Speaker: Professor Conor Gearty Chair: Dr Sigrid Rausing This event was recorded on 7 May 2009 in Old Theatre, Old Building Conor Gearty speculates about the ongoing search for truth in human rights and reflects on his seven years as director of the Centre for the Study of Human Rights at LSE.