ANNUAL REPORT

2017-18 OPENING DAY 2018 WELCOME FROM THE DIRECTOR

The establishment of the That uncertainty is generated The Bonavero Institute’s We shall support world- Bonavero Institute would in part because the post-war link with the Faculty of Law class research in the field not have happened without commitments to fostering provides great advantages of human rights law and the generosity of our many peace, human rights, the to the Institute. It enables promote public engagement benefactors. It would also rule of law and international the Institute to collaborate in, and understanding of never have been realised institutions today are with the outstanding legal human rights law. In this, our without the extraordinary under threat from many scholars in the Faculty, many first Annual Report, you will drive and vision of Baroness quarters. The establishment of whom are leaders in learn about the programmes, Helena Kennedy QC, the of an institute dedicated to human rights and public projects and research that we Principal of Mansfield human rights research at the law research. have begun in our first year College, and the support is thus of operation, as well as about of the Fellows of Mansfield both timely and auspicious, The Bonavero Institute seeks our growing community. and the Faculty of Law at for it reminds us that our to bring those engaged the University of Oxford. world is made and shaped by in human rights research Kate O’Regan, Director We are grateful to them for human beings. The founders and human rights practice all their contributions and of this Institute have acted together to establish a commitment to building to support and strengthen creative conversation that a new Institute dedicated the commitment to human will foster the promotion and to human rights in our rights, peace and the rule protection of human rights uncertain world. of law. for the next century.

A new Institute dedicated to human rights in our uncertain world.

11 22 INSTITUTIONAL STRUCTURE

Universal Declaration of Human Rights Recognition of the inherent dignity and of the equal and inalienable rights of all members of the human family is the foundation of freedom, justice and peace in the world.

The Bonavero Institute of Human Rights is a research institute within the Faculty of Law at the University of Oxford. Unlike the other research centres in the Faculty of Law that are housed in the Law Faculty building in St Cross Rd, the Bonavero Institute is housed in Mansfield College.

The governance and structure of the It is chaired by Professor Les The termly Director’s Report as well Bonavero Institute is governed in Green and, in addition to three as the minutes of the termly meetings terms of a Constitution approved by representatives of staff of the of the Management Committee the Law Board, the managing body Bonavero, includes within its are tabled at Law Board termly. The of the Faculty of Law, which reports members the Principal of Mansfield Advisory Council is established in to the Board of the Division of Social College, Professor Hugh Collins, terms of the Constitution to provide Sciences within the University. The Professor Sandra Fredman, Mr advice to the Director. The Director Director of the Institute reports to the Nicholas Bamforth, Professor Helen proposes that the Advisory Council Dean of the Faculty of Law and to a Margetts, Professor Ian Loader and will meet annually. Management Committee, established (until October 2018) Professor in terms of the Constitution, which David Levy. meets termly.

The Bonavero Institute has a website on the Faculty of Law website, as well as a Facebook page and a twitter account @BonaveroIHR. Please follow us. It is the best way to keep in touch with what is going on at the Bonavero Institute. www.law.ox.ac.uk/bonaveroihr We also have a mailing list for termly information on the Bonavero Institute. 3 Those who wish to subscribe should send a blank email to the following address: [email protected] @BonaveroIHR STAFFING ADVISORY COUNCILWELCOME

The Bonavero Institute Alejandra Ancheita currently has the Is founder and Executive Director of the following posts: Mexico City-based ProDESC (The Economic, Social and Cultural Rights Project). She leads the fight for the rights of the migrants, Professor Kate O’Regan workers, and indigenous communities of her Director native country. Dr Annelen Micus Head of Programmes Dame Mary Arden Ms Zoe Davis-Heaney Is a judge of the Court of Appeal of England Administrator and Wales, a position she has held since 2000. She is also the Head of International Judicial Ms Sarah Norman Relations for England and Wales. Price Media Moot Programme Administrator Yves Bonavero Dr Stefan Theil Together with his wife Anne, Yves Bonavero Bonavero Post-Doctoral Fellow established the A B Charitable Trust. The Trust supports charities that defend human Mr Michael Molavi The Legal Education Foundation rights and promote respect for vulnerable Post-Doctoral Fellow individuals whatever their circumstances. Mr Oliver Butler Dame Linda Dobbs DBE Post-Doctoral Fellow Was the first non-white high court judge in Ms Emma Pruszewicz the UK, having been appointed a Deputy High Events and Communications Officer Court Judge in 2003.

5 6 ADVISORY COUNCIL

Lord John Dyson Jennifer Robinson Was Master of the Rolls (President of the Is a and created the Bertha Justice Court of Appeal of England and Wales and Initiative, a global programme and network Head of Civil Justice) for four years until he to support emerging lawyers into public retired in October 2016. interest law, providing support and advice to lawyers conducting strategic public law and Professor Christof Heyns human rights litigation. Is a member of the UN Human Rights Dr Miriam Saage-Maaß Committee (2017-2020). He is recognized internationally as a leading expert in the field Is a German trained lawyer and Vice Legal of international human rights law. Director at the Berlin-based European Center of Constitutional and Human Rights Baroness Helena Kennedy QC (ECCHR). Is one of the United Kingdom’s most Sir Stephen Sedley distinguished human rights lawyers. She has practised at the Bar for 40 years in the field of Was a judge on the Court of Appeal for criminal law and has conducted many of the England and Wales from 1999 to 2011. He is leading cases in those years. a Bencher of the Honourable Society of the . Eric Lewis Chris Stone Has been a leading figure in international human rights. He has represented Is an independent advisor on justice reform, Guantánamo detainees and has also acted on organisational strategy, and innovation in the behalf of Afghan prisoners held by the U.S. social sector. In 2005, he received an honorary military in Afghanistan. OBE for his contributions to criminal justice reform in the United Kingdom.

7 8 ADVISORY COUNCIL MANAGEMENT COMMITTEE

Dr Anup Surendranath Professor Les Green (Chair) Is the Director of the Centre on the Death Penalty and an Assistant Professor of Law at Is the Professor of the Philosophy of Law and National Law University (NLU), Delhi. Fellow of Balliol College. He also holds a part- time appointment as Professor of Law and Professor Rodrigo Uprimny Yepes Distinguished University Fellow at Queen’s University in Canada. Is a lawyer and is now Professor Emeritus at the National University of Colombia, Baroness Helena Kennedy QC and has been a visiting professor at several universities. Is one of the United Kingdom’s most distinguished human rights lawyers. She has Vincent Warren practiced at the Bar for 40 years in the field of Is the Executive Director of the Center for criminal law and has conducted many of the Constitutional Rights (CCR) in New York. He leading cases in those years. oversees CCR’s groundbreaking litigation and Nicholas Bamforth advocacy work. Is a Fellow in Law at The Queen’s College, Oxford. He works in the areas of Constitutional and Administrative Law, Human Rights Law and Sexuality and Law.

Professor Hugh Collins (Faculty of Law) became the Vinerian Professor of English Law in 2013. He has been a Visiting Professor at New York University Law School and Boston University Law School. He was elected a Fellow of the British Academy in 2006.

9 10 MANAGEMENT COMMITTEE

Professor Sandy Fredman Annelen Micus (Faculty of Law) Sandra Fredman is (Bonavero Institute, Faculty of Law) is the Head Rhodes Professor of the Laws of the British of Programmes of the Bonavero Institute of Commonwealth and the USA at Oxford University. Human Rights. Previously, Annelen worked She was elected a Fellow of the British Academy in for two years with a Colombian human rights 2005 and became a QC (honoris causa) in 2012. organisation, the Lawyers’ Collective “José Alvear Restrepo” (CAJAR), as international Professor Ian Loader advisor on transitional justice and business and (Faculty of Law) is Professor of Criminology and human rights issues. Professorial Fellow of All Souls College. He is an Associate Fellow of the Institute for Public Dr David Levy Policy Research. Has been the Director of the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism since 2008. He Professor Helen Margetts has particular expertise in public service (Oxford Internet Institute) is the Director of the broadcasting, media regulation and the OII, and Professor of Society and the Internet. interaction between digital technology and She is a political scientist specialising in digital media regulation within the UK and Europe. era governance and politics, investigating Professor Kate O’Regan political behaviour and political institutions in the age of the internet, social media and big data. (Bonavero Institute, Faculty of Law) is the inaugural Director of the Bonavero Institute of Human Rights and Professor of Human Rights Law at Oxford University. She served as a judge of the South African Constitutional Court from 1994 – 2009.

11 12 PROGRAMMES AND NETWORKS The Monroe Price Media Moot programme Fiction and Human Rights Network (hosted) In its first year of operation, the Institute both hosts and Children’s Rights Network (hosted) has established a range of programmes, some of which Business and Human Rights Research Network (hosted) came to the Institute as fully-fledged programmes. Research Visitor Programme Programmes include the following... Non-stipendiary Post-Doctoral Programme Bonavero Student Summer Fellowship Programme Graduate Research Student Residency Programme Strategising Human Rights Seminar for Students Human Rights Research Practical Training Programmes

13 14 BENEFACTORS FOUNDING PRINCIPLES

The Bonavero Institute of There are many Human Rights would like to people and thank all its Founding Donors: organisations working in the field The AB Charitable Trust – the Bonavero Family of human rights The Abunahl Family The Institute law both in Oxford The Leventis Family acknowledges and welcomes debates and beyond. The Sir Joseph Hotung The Institute studies about the content, Institute will seek The Hands family and supports all foundation, and best to ensure that we The Potter Foundation fundamental human forms of protection work openly and The Open Society Foundation rights as they have for human rights. It collaboratively with The Legal Education Foundation been, or should be, supports vigorous others working in Eric L. Lewis protected in law, and diverse scholarly the field of human Donald Glascoff for example, those discussion of all rights wherever The McBain Family Trust rights in the UDHR. these issues. possible. The Lisbet Rausing Foundation

With thanks also to the many alumni and friends who have supported and continue to support, and to those who wish to remain anonymous.

15 16 FOUR STRATEGIC GOALS

The Institute will seek to establish a The Institute will expose students at the vibrant, collegial, global forum of human University to current issues in human rights scholars and practitioners to foster rights. It will also enhance the experience of collaboration between scholars and human graduate research students working in the rights lawyers in practice, including judges. broad field of human rights in the Faculty In so doing, the Institute will widen the of Law by providing them with a collegial University’s engagement with society on working space, access to Institute events and human rights issues. The establishment of a exposure to a range of opportunities that will global forum of scholars and practitioners enable graduate students to think about the will be achieved in part by the use of application of human rights law in practice. modern information and communications The Institute will provide opportunities technology, including Facebook and Twitter. to students who wish to develop careers in human rights law. The Institute will also promote the teaching of human rights law within the Faculty of Law at the University.

The Institute will foster collaborative, The Institute will seek to be recognised as a rigorous, multidisciplinary and innovative host (and co-host) that organises engaging world class research on human rights issues intellectual events of both global and local and share the fruits of its research in a clear importance relating to human rights law, and accessible way with policy-makers, including lectures, conversations, discussions, practitioners and the broader public. conferences and symposia, both in Oxford and elsewhere.

17 18 19 20 Building a Human Rights Community

The Institute has welcomed fifteen Research Visitors during 2017/2018.

Dr Aline Albuquerque (Summer 2018) Dr Thompson Chengeta (Hilary Term 2018) Judge Kriangsak Kittichaisaree Dr Vladislava Stoyanova (Hilary and Trinity Term 2018) (Hilary and Trinity Term 2018) Professor and Researcher of Postgraduate and Graduates Fellow at the South African Research Chair in International of Faculty of Law, University Centre of Brasilia. Area of Law, University of Johannesburg, Adjunct Senior Lecturer at Judge of the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea. Lecturer and Postdoctoral Fellow, Faculty of Law, Lund research: Legal Capacity under the perspective of human MSU, Non-Resident Fellow at the Institute of International and Area of research: The Diplomacy of International Human University, Sweden. Area of research: Positive Human Rights rights framework. Comparative Law in Africa, UP. Area of research: Populism, Rights Law. Obligations in Europe. constitutionalism, rule of law, elections and democracy. Professor Diane Amann (Trinity Term 2018) Dr Natasa Mavronicola (Trinity Term 2018) Judge Malcolm Wallis (Michaelmas Term 2017) Dr Johanna Gusman (Michaelmas Term 2017) Associate Dean for International Programs and Strategic Senior Lecturer of Law, University of Birmingham. Judge of Appeal, Supreme Court of Appeal, Honorary Initiatives, University of Georgia School of Law. Area of Gates Public Service Law Scholar, Technical Officer, World Area of research: The significance of certainty in Professor, University of KwaZulu-Natal. Area of research: research: Women at Nuremburg. Diane is the holder of the Health Organisation. Area of research: Framework supranational human rights adjudication Patrolling Judicial Boundaries – The Search for Principle. Emily and Ernest Woodruff Chair in International Law at the Convention on Tobacco Control Project (WHO). University of Georgia School of Law. Professor Tuomas Mylly (2017/2018 academic year) Professor Bob Watt(2017/2018 academic year) Professor Hurst Hannum (Michaelmas Term 2017) Sir Nicholas Blake (Trinity Term 2018) University of Turku. Area of research: the copyright case law Professor of Law, University of Buckingham (retd.) Professor of International Law, Fletcher School, Tufts of the EU Court from a human rights perspective. Area of research: Towards an Electoral Act 202x. Retired judge of the High Court of England and Wales. Area University. Area of research: The Lasting Utopia: A Human of research: the origin of the case law that interprets Article 3 Rights Agenda for the Twenty-first Century Dr Noam Schimmel (Hilary and Trinity Term 2018) of the European Convention Human Rights as incorporating an absolute obligation to expel a person to a place where Dr Melanie Klinkner (Trinity Term 2018) Visiting Fellow, Kellogg College & Associate Fellow, there is a real risk of exposure to torture or inhuman or Centre for Human Rights and Legal Pluralism, McGill degrading treatment. Principal Academic in Law at Bournemouth University. University Faculty of Law. Area of research: The Politics of Area of research: ‘the right to the truth in international Human Rights Law at the United Nations: Holding the UN law’ (co-authored with Dr. Howard Davis, to be published Accountable to the Laws it Codifies. as part of Routledge’s Human Rights Series) Additionally, development of mass grave protection guidelines. 21 22 Building a Human Rights Community

We have more than thirty academic affiliates, from both within the Faculty of Law and beyond. Current academic affiliates are: Abi Adams (Economics); Dapo Akande (Blavatnik School of • Graduate Research Student Residency Government); Nick Barber (Law); Nicholas Bamforth (Law); Programme Hugh Collins (Law); Cathryn Costello (Law); Paul Craig (Law); Timothy Endicott (Law); Pavlos Eleftheriadis (Law); Sandy The Bonavero Institute has established a graduate student Fredman (Law); Timothy Garton Ash (St Antony’s); Nazila residency programme which permits graduate students to Ghanea (Law); Ezequiel Gonzalez Ocantos (Politics and be appointed as student residents for six-month periods. International Relations); Imogen Goold (Law); Leslie Green Student residents are permitted to use the Helena Kennedy (Law); Barbara Havelkova (Law); Jonathan Herring (Law); Reading Room for reading and research purposes. Andrew Higgins (Law); Hayley Hooper (Law); Laura Hoyano (Law); Miles Jackson (Law); Aileen Kavanagh (Law); Tarunabh • Helena Kennedy Reading Room “hot seat” Khaitan (Law); Liora Lazarus (Law); Theodor Meron (Law); programme Rasmus Nielsen (Reuters School for the Study of Journalism); Leigh Payne (Latin American Centre); Jeremias Prassl (Law); Graduate research students are permitted to use the Jake Rowbottom (Law); Tessa Roynon (English); Andrew Helena Kennedy Reading Room daily on a first-come Shacknove (Law). first-served basis.

• Bonavero Institute monthly Tea Time • Bonavero Perspectives seminar series We host a monthly Tea Time during term-time on the Our post-doctoral fellows have instituted a by-invitation first Thursday of every month for all our staff members, discussion group called Bonavero Perspectives to discuss Research Visitors, Graduate Research Student Residents and some of the most difficult human rights issues of the day. Academic Affiliates.

23 24 Fostering Collaborative Research

The Institute is seeking to foster collaborative world-class research initiatives between scholars at Oxford and others in the broad field of human rights:

• Freedom of Expression, Media and Relations. In the morning, Jeremias Prassl and Abi Adams • Business and Human Rights: presented on their research that was used in the reasoning Information Technology in contemporary The Bonavero Institute, with Professor Hugh Collins, of the Supreme Court in the UNISON case. Jeremias and hosted a well-attended roundtable on Business and democracies: Abi explained the manner in which the research was done, Human Rights on 5 June at All Souls. This is a key Timothy Garton-Ash and Kate O’Regan have established a and explored possibilities for the use of similar research research focus of our Head of Programmes, Annelen conversation series on these issues. Invitees included David in other access to justice cases. In the afternoon, there was Micus. Two panel discussions were held: the first Levy (a Management Committee member) and Rasmus a presentation on a new Artificial Intelligence programme addressed the effectiveness of corporate reporting Nielsen, both of the Reuters Institute, Helen Margett in development in Latin America, Prometea, which seeks requirements and new legislative initiatives, such as the and other members of the Oxford Internet Institute, to assist in the determination of simple cases. The Inter- Modern Slavery Act 2015 in the UK and the new French (Principal of Lady Margaret Hall), Mark American Court of Human Rights is apparently also law on the duty of vigilance; and the second discussed Damazer (Principal of St Peter’s), Ken Macdonald (Principal investigating using the software. Participants included the civil liability of corporate actors for human rights of Wadham College) and others. Five events were held practitioners from NGOs such as Liberty, Justice, the Public related harms, including a consideration of the legal during the year addressing a range of issues including Law Project, and the Bingham Centre for the Rule of Law, mechanisms for securing compliance in supply chains online speech and internet platforms, journalistic representatives from the Law Society and scholars such as with human rights and labour standards, and the responses to fake news, the GDPR, and free speech in the Andrew Higgins. liability of companies for harms caused by subsidiaries, university. It is proposed that this series continue on a contractors and suppliers. The participants included termly basis next year. • Illiberal Democracies: legal practitioners from leading firms, representatives The Bonavero Institute proposes to initiate a research of NGOs working in the field as well as scholars. • Access to Civil Justice: programme to investigate the techniques of illiberal Michael Molavi is developing a research project in this field. democracies, as well as successful initiatives to protect and • Freedom of Speech and the Internet: We held a successful round table discussion on Access to promote human rights within illiberal democracies. Oliver Butler is organising a one-day seminar on the Justice issues at the Bonavero in May together with Ezequiel A major conference is planned for Autunm 2018. regulation of speech on the internet in the Autumn. Ocantos from the Department of Politics and International A range of speakers have accepted invitations to attend and we look forward to an interesting discussion. 25 26 • Oxford participation in Human Rights moots: Injection method of imposing the Death Penalty amongst others. The course was open to Masters in Public Policy The Bonavero Institute promotes the participation of Oxford students at the Blavatnik School of Government as well students in human rights moots. I am delighted to say that as to graduate and undergraduate law students. We had more the Oxford team that the Institute sponsored with the Law than 60 applications for a course we had planned to have Faculty to take part in the Nelson Mandela World Human about 15 or 20 students. In the end we accepted 32 students Rights Moot Court competition 2017 did very well. They 0nto the course. Enhancing the qualified for the finals in Geneva in July and one speaker, Weiran Zhang, placed third overall and our other speaker, • Use of Force Research Training programme: Student Experience Tsvetelina van Benthem, placed sixth. In 2017/2018 we supported the student organisation Lawyers without Borders We conducted two research training programmes in the to run a local round for the Nelson Mandela moot in January. field of human rights in partnership with Professor Christof Our Director was also one of the judges in the final of the Heyns (member of the Human Rights Committee) and the Enriching the exposure of Oxford students to human rights, as well as promoting human rights annual Disability Moot in Oxford, and the Bonavero Institute Centre for Human Rights at the University of Pretoria. The conversations amongst law students globally during Michaelmas Term: will host the Moot next year. long-term goal of the project is to produce a database of legislation and jurisprudence on the use of force by security • Bonavero Student Summer Fellowship • Price Media Law Moot Court competition: • Support to student-led human rights services in every country in the world, which is to be made available on a website. The website is now up and running programme: The Bonavero Institute took over responsibility for running organisations: and may be visited at policinglaw.info. In the first exercise, this global moot programme from the Programme for With the generous support of Eric Lewis, the Bonavero a group of ten students worked under the supervision of Comparative Media Law and Policy in 2017/2018, which has The Bonavero Institute seeks to provide support to student- Institute has awarded a series of student fellowships Stuart Maslen (an expert in the field), Liora Lazarus and existed for more than ten years. Eight regional rounds were led human rights organisations at the University of Oxford for students in summer 2017 and 2018. Student fellows Annelen Micus to produce ten country studies relating to held in Afghanistan, the Asia-Pacific (Beijing), North-East in many ways, including by providing them with a venue to have been appointed to work at a range of organisations countries due to the report to the Human Rights Committee Europe (Kyiv), South-East Europe (Zagreb), Middle East meet and hold events as well as by hosting regular Human including Reprieve UK, the Public Law Project, Liberty, the this year on their compliance with their treaty obligations (Beirut), Americas (New York), Africa (Johannesburg) and Rights Fairs where they can showcase their work. Student-led Bingham Centre for the Rule of Law (BIICL), the Namibian under the International Covenant on Civil and Political South Asia (Delhi) in the run up to the final round which human rights organisations include Oxford Legal Assistance Supreme Court, local immigration law firm Turpin and Rights. In the second exercise seven students participated. was held in Oxford in the week of 13 April 2018. For the first (OLA), Oxford Pro Bono Publico (OPBP), Oxford Lawyers Miller and the European Center for Constitutional and We were fortunate to draw students with a remarkable array time an all-judge final panel was appointed. A range of Without Borders, Amnesty International, Oxford Human Human Rights in Berlin. The Institute also administers of languages, including Russian, Indonesian, Portuguese, events exploring contemporary freedom of speech issues Rights Hub amongst others. the Samuel Pisar Travelling Fellowship and the Oxford Pro Arabic and Spanish that benefited the programme greatly. Bono Publico internship programme. We are delighted with were run in association with the Moot. the success of this programme and hope it will grow and • Bonavero Institute/Oxfam/Oxford Human prosper in the years ahead. Rights Hub Seminar Series on Strategic • Clinic at HMP Huntercombe: Human Rights litigation and policy-making: We are in the process of establishing a regular advice clinic with a focus on immigration law at HMP Huntercombe During the year, we developed and ran a six-seminar, non- Prison. The clinic will be run in partnership with Mary credit course on Human Rights Strategy run in partnership Bosworth of the Institute of Criminology and Tom Giles with Oxfam and the Oxford Human Rights Hub. Our head of Turpin and Miller. Graduate students in the Institute of of programmes, Annelen Micus, is the co-ordinator of the Criminology and perhaps other graduate law students programme. The seminars were on Litigating the Right will participate. to Education, protecting the interests of refugees who are unaccompanied minors, the Campaign against the Lethal

27 28 Hilary Term 2018 Christof Heyns speaking on Restating Adolfo Perez Esquivel on The Struggle socio-legal perspective on employees’ the supreme right: recent events in for Human Rights in Latin America. framing of human rights in British international law on the right to life Research Visitor Thompson Chengeta hospitality businesses’ presented chaired by Dapo Akande. on Populism and Democracy chaired by Dr Samentha Goethals, Oxford Engaging Fiction and Human Rights Network: by Les Green. Brookes Business School. Tom White and Liz Fisher discussing David Oppenheimer on Civil or Oxford Business and Human Rights Intellectual Events Margaret Atwood’s Oryx and Crake. Administrative Enforcement of Anti- Discussion Group: “The Civil Liability Jeremias Prassl on Humans as a Discrimination Law: Why Donald of the Parent Company for the Acts Service: the Promise and Perils of work Trump will fail in his efforts to sabotage or Omissions of Its Subsidiary: The in the Gig Economy. employment discrimination law. Example of the Shell Cases in the UK Adjudicating Rights Judicial Conversation Series: and in the Netherlands” presented Angela Moore on Adaptation of refugee Oxford Business and Human Rights by Dr Claire Bright, London School of This programme hosts judges from a range of jurisdictions in conversation. We have hosted two events during the year, in the status in relation to child applicants. Discussion Group: “What’s going Business and Management. first we welcomed two leading international judges, Judge Joan Donoghue (the US judge on the International Court of Justice) on at the ground-floor? Towards a and Judge Theodor Meron (formerly judge of the International Criminal Tribunal for Yugoslavia and President of the UN Mechanism for Criminal Tribunals); and in the second we welcomed Judge Georgina Wood, former Chief Justice of Ghana, in conversation with Sir Nicholas Blake, our Research Visitor, and former judge of the High Court of England and Wales. Trinity Term 2018 Book launch and Panel Discussion of (No 5 Chambers), Professor Visitor Professor Tuomas Mylly, and Public Lectures: Veronika Fikfak and Hayley Hooper’s Mark Freedland and Gema Fernandez commentators Professor Hugh Collins The Bonavero Institute co-hosted the Annual Global Justice Lecture in the Sir Joseph Hotung Auditorium. The lecture was “Parliament’s Secret War”. (Women’s Link Worldwide). and Professor Roderick Bagshaw. delivered by Ms Fatou Bensouda, the Chief Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court. The lecture was the inaugural event Fiction and Human Rights Network: Shaheed Fatima QC (Blackstone Research Visitor Seminar “A new of the Bonavero institute in its new building and was very well attended. It was followed by a dinner in the Chapel at Mansfield. A discussion of Petina Gappah’s The Chambers) discussing the recent History of the Nuremberg Trials: Book of Memory, with discussants report Children in Armed Conflict Figuring Women and Others into the Bonavero Institute Collaborative Seminar Series: Jonathan Herring (Law) and Nicholas with Research Visitor Professor Diane Narrative” presented by Research Quefferus (African Studies). Amann (Georgia). Visitor Professor Diane Amann in Given our aim at being a collaborative institute, we have established a collaborative seminar series hosted with a range of Oxford Business and Human Rights conversation with Professor different partners including the Oxford Institute for Ethics, Law and Armed Conflict (ELAC), the Oxford Human Rights Hub Book launch Jeremias Prassl’s Humans Discussion Group: “The Business of Dapo Akande. (OxHRH), the Public International Law Discussion Group (PIL), Oxford Transitional Justice Research (OTJR) and the Public Law as a Service: The Promise and Perils Doing Human Rights and Business” Discussion Group and networks hosted by the Bonavero Institute. The following seminars have been held: of the Gig Economy (OUP 2018) Book colloquium co-hosted with presented by John Morrison, Chief with QC (Matrix the Programme for the Foundations Michelmas Term 2017 Executive of the Institute for Human Chambers), Anne Davies (Law), Guy of Law and Constitutional Rights and Business. Standing (SOAS) and Naomi Climber Government Gregoire Webber and Professor Oona Hathaway on her new Anthony Dworkin (European Council Corey Stoughton The Legal Movement Book colloquium on Research (former President, Institution of others Legislated Rights: Securing book The Internationalists: How a on Foreign relations) on Justifying the for Equal Rights for Transgender Visitor Vladislava Stoyanova’s Engineering and Technology). Human Rights through Legislation Radical Plan to Outlaw War remade Use of Force against Terrorist Groups. People. Human Trafficking and Slavery Horizontality of Intellectual Property (Cambridge 2018) with panel the World. Anup Surendranath on Beyond Judge Malcolm Wallis, our Research Reconsidered: Conceptual Limits Rights and the Case Law of the discussion by Professor Timothy Avril Haines (former US Deputy Sentencing Inconsistency: Visitor, on The Role of the Judge in a and State’s Positive Obligations in CJEU (co-hosted with the Oxford Endicott, Professor Aileen Kavanagh National Security Advisor) on The Understanding India’s Death Constitutional Democracy. European Law (Cambridge: 2017) Intellectual Property Research and Professor Kate O’Regan. Intersection of International Law, Penalty Crisis. with discussants Professor Siobhan Centre) and presented by Research 30 Foreign Policy and National Security). Mullally (NUI Galway), Alison Harvey STRATEGIC GOALS

Book launch of The Obligation to and key partners within the University Anti-Discrimination Law in Civil Extradite or Prosecute (OUP 2018) such as Oxford Pro Bono Publico, Jurisdictions (with Dr Barbara by Research Visitor Judge Kriangsak Oxford Legal Assistance, the Oxford Havelkova); Beyond Critique: Kittichaisaree, co-hosted with the Human Rights Hub and the student Celebrating 5 Years of Border Public International Law Discussion branches of Amnesty International Criminologies Conference with the Group. and Lawyers Without Borders. Institute of Criminology a conference on Constitutionalism in Africa with A Glimpse into contested Indigenous Emerging Scholar Workshop and the Programme for the Foundations Peoples’ Rights in Peru: the Forced Conference in India: We hosted of Law and Constitutional Sterilisation of Indigenous Women” our inaugural Emerging Scholar Government on issues concerning with Nusta Carranza Ko. Workshop in India. Our partners were constitutionalism in Africa, in the University of Melbourne Law Book Launch: Dr Alan Greene’s particular Kenya and West Africa. School, the Law School at the National Permanent States of Emergency and University of Singapore and OP Jindal the Rule of Law. Law School in Delhi. Our call for Film screenings Abortion in Northern Ireland Panel papers resulted in a very interesting We have screened several films during Discussion with David Russell array of proposals and an outstanding the year: “It Stays With You: Use of (Chief Executive of NI Human group of senior scholars attended, Force by UN Peacekeepers in Haiti” Rights Commission), Breedagh including Professor Paul Craig from introduced by Professor Siobhan Wills Hughes (Director of Royal College of Oxford, Professor HP Lee from Monash and discussed with Richard Caplan; Midwives, Belfast), Nathalie Lieven QC University in Australia, Professor Cora “No Place for a Rebel” presented chaired by Dr Kate Greasley. Hoexter from the University of the by Maartje Wegdam and Ariadne Witwatersrand, Professor Kevin Tan The Fiction and Human Rights Asimakopoulos; Inxeba – The Wound from NUS and Professor Hugh Corder Network: A discussion of Svetlana (co-hosted with the OxHRH) was from the University of Cape Town. Alexievich’s A Chernobyl Prayer with screened at the Phoenix Picturehouse Catherine Gilbert (English) and Sanja Conferences: The Bonavero Institute and was followed by a panel Bogojevich (Law). also hosted or co-hosted a range of discussion with the Director, Welcome Event: A day-long Welcome conferences in Oxford during the several students and chaired by Event was held to introduce staff and year including Strategic Litigation Jonny Steinberg of African Studies; students at the University to the work in Practice: Sharing experiences, “A Cambodian Spring” was screened at of the Bonavero Institute. A range of identifying opportunities and building the Ultimate Picture Palace, followed events were held throughout the day an international community of by a panel with the director, the which included key partners outside practice (with Oxfam and the Oxford protagonist of the documentary, an of the University such as Reprieve, Human Rights Hub); the inaugural NGO representative and the director Human Rights Watch and Oxfam, Oxford Disability Law and Policy of a different film. Conference (with Dr Marie Tidball);

31 32 “I have no doubt that the “The Bonavero Institute has its scholarship and imagination work cut out. Because human that the Bonavero Institute rights exist principally as laws will stimulate, the exchange of and treaty obligations, research ideas and the outreach to civil into the law of human rights is society that it has put at the crucial. Above all, we must make a heart of its mission will help difference to the men, women and realise the ultimate promise of children for whom human rights human rights: creating a better are a matter of life and death.” world for all humankind.” Yves Bonavero Kofi Annan Networks hosted by Bonavero Fiction and Human Rights Network Oxford Children’s Rights Network (OCRN) Oxford University student-led initiatives Oxford Business and Human Rights Network (OxBHR) Oxford Pro Bono Publico Disability Law and Policy Project Oxford Legal Assistance Amnesty International Oxford University partners Lawyers without Borders Oxford Internet Institute Oxfam Reuters Institute of Journalism Turpin and Miller Oxford Human Rights Hub (OxHRH) HMP Huntercombe The Institute Of Criminology Institute for Ethics, Law and Armed Conflict (ELAC) Partner organisations for Public International Law Discussion Group (PIL) internship programme Oxford Transitional Justice Research (OTJR) UK Reprieve UK Public Law Discussion Group collaborations Liberty Oxford Intellectual Property Research Centre Justice Refugee Studies Centre The Public Law Project Bingham Centre for the Rule of Law at the British Institute of International and Comparative Law

35 36 Partner organisations for internship programme Namibian Supreme Court 8 regional rounds of the Price Moot Court European Center for Constitutional and Competition: Afghanistan, Beijing, Kyiv, Human Rights (ECCHR) in Berlin Zagreb, Beirut, New York, Johannesbug, Delhi Women´s Legal Centre in Cape Town Nelson Mandela World Human Rights Moot Constitutional Court in South Africa Court – finals in Geneva Research visitors from: Thailand, Use of Force Research Training Programme in Brazil, USA, South Africa, Samoa, Sweden, partnership with University of Pretoria Finland as well as the UK Steven Livingstone Memorial Lecture – Global Justice Lecture with Queens University Belfast the Chief Prosecutor of the Welcomed judges from: European Court International Criminal Court of Human Rights, International Court of Emerging Scholar Workshop with Justice, International Criminal Tribunal for Melbourne University, NUS, hosted by Yugoslavia, High Court of England and Wales, GU Jindal, Delhi, April 2018 GLOBAL Chief Justice of Ghana, Court of Appeal Ghana, International Court of Justice, Advisory Council Members from collaborations UN Mechanism for Criminal Tribunals, Colombia, Germany, India, Mexico, International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea South Africa, the UK and the US

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