Event on "Human Rights & Humanitarian Law: Conflict or Convergence?" - April 7, 2010

INPROL was recently notified of an upcoming lecture at Case Western University by Sir Christopher Greenwood, a judge on the International Court of Justice. The event will take place on Wednesday, April 7, 2010, from 4:30 to 5:30pm. Here's a short description from the Case website:

The decades since the Second World War have been the ‘Age of Human Rights’ and it is one of the proudest achievements of international law that this development has placed the rights and well-being of the individual at the heart of international law and relations in a way which would have been inconceivable not long ago. Yet within international law, human rights law is not alone in having the welfare of the individual as its priority; international humanitarian law has long sought to protect the individual from the worst excesses of war. Are these two bodies of law mutually exclusive ? Do they conflict or are they capable of of playing complementary roles ? Judge Greenwood will draw on his experience both as an academic and a practitioner in addressing these questions.

The event is free, open to the public and will also be webcast live. For more details, please see this page. ()