ESRAN-UKI/ANESC-RACSE WORKSHOP
Transitional Justice Institute, Dalriada House
Ulster University
16th March 2017
PROGRAMME
10.00-10.30 Arrival
10.30-10.45 Welcome by Rory O’Connell
10.45-12.00 Panel 1: ‘ESR in Times of Crisis’
Chair: Anne Smith
Thomas Murray (An Cosán Virtual Community College Dublin), ‘Social Innovation and the Right to Education’
Claire Lougarre (Southampton), ‘The protection of non-nationals in human rights treaties: the case of economic, social and cultural rights treaties’
Mark Simpson (Ulster University), ‘Social rights, child rights, discrimination and devolution: untangling the web’
12.00-13.00 Lunch
13.00-14.15 Panel 2: International Law and Domestic Law
Chair: Khanyisela Moyo
Evelyne Schmid (Switzerland), ‘International Law and Domestic Law-Making’
Azadeh Chalabi (Ulster University, Belfast ), ‘Refining “Appropriate Measures” to Implement Human Rights: An Alternative Model of Discretion’
14.15-14.30 Break
14.30-15.45 Panel 3: ‘ESR, Europe and Brexit’ Chair: Thomas Hansen
Katie Boyle (Roehampton), ‘Constitutional referendums, socio-economic rights and deliberative democracy’
Amrei Müller (Queen’s University Belfast), ‘The Influence of the ICESCR in Europe – Broad Trends and Challenges’
16.00-16.45: Guest Talk
Colm O’Cinniede (London)
‘Defining a “European Minimum Core” of Social Rights: The Case-law of the European Committee on Social Rights’?
19.00 Dinner