Marriage Equality, Relationship Recognition and Non-Discrimination: Securing Equality and Rights? 28/03/2014

Speakers include:
• Professor Robert Wintemute, School of Law, King’s College London (Keynote address)
• Prof Fiona de Londras, School of Law, Durham University
• Boris Dittrich, Advocacy Director, LGBT program, Human Rights Watch
• Nicholas Bamforth, School of Law, Oxford University
• Kieran Rose, Gay Lesbian Equality Network (GLEN) and Member Designate of the Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission
• Dr Louise Crowley, Faculty of Law, UCC
• Dr Conor O’Mahony, Faculty of Law UCC
• Prof Siobhán Mullally, Faculty of Law, UCC
• Dr Fergus Ryan, NUI Maynooth
• Hon Mr Justice John Hedigan, (High Court), Chair (afternoon session).

Setting the Agenda: http://www.ucc.ie/en/ccjhr/news/fullstory-419302-en.html

A referendum on same sex marriage will be held in Ireland in 2015. Securing marriage equality has been described as the ‘civil rights issue of our generation’. The proposed constitutional reform follows on from significant legislative reforms in Ireland on civil partnerships, equality law, and further pending reform on children’s rights and family relationships. Across Europe and internationally, constitutional and legislative reforms are taking place addressing rights to same sex marriage, and sexual orientation and gender identity discrimination in areas such as adoption, guardianship and custody of children and more broadly in the field of relationship recognition. International human rights bodies, including the European and Inter-American Courts of Human Rights, are developing a significant body of jurisprudence on the scope and limits of anti-discrimination norms. This conference brings together leading human rights advocates, lawyers and academics to address the many pressing questions that now face Ireland and other jurisdictions engaging in comprehensive reforms of family, constitutional, equality and human rights law.

Conference Convenors: Prof Siobhán Mullally and Dr Claire Murray, Centre for Criminal Justice and Human Rights, Faculty of Law, U.C.C.

This conference is supported by the Irish Research Council, the College of Business and Law, and the Gender Law and Sexuality research initiative at UCC Law Faculty.

Venue: Brookfield Health Sciences, BHSC Room GO1
Time: 11 am to 5pm

Brookfield Health Sciences Complex (BHSC) is located on the western side of the main UCC campus. http://www.ucc.ie/en/visitors/maps/

A full programme will be available shortly at http://www.ucc.ie/en/ccjhr/news/fullstory-419302-en.html

Biographies of speakers are available at the following link

Registration Fees:
Full Rate: €60
Reduced Rate: €30
The reduced fee is available to NGOs, barristers in their first five years in practice, trainee solicitors and solicitors with up to three years post qualification experience.
Student Registration: €20. Available to full-time students with valid ID

6 CPD Group points available

Contact: Ms. Noreen Delea, Department of Law, UCC
Email:
Tel: 021 4903220