When: 1-2 November 2014
Where: London
In conjunction with UCL Faculty of Law, the UCL Science, Medicine, and Society Network is offering a two-day symposium designed to merge pro bono legal work with the needs of groups lacking legal representation.
This two-day course is aimed at legal practitioners representing or intending to represent the rights of 4th world peoples being individuals or groups belonging to indigenous and traditional cultures, and disenfranchised migrant groups in local and global settings such as asylum-seekers and refugees. The conference is also intended to assist legal practitioners engaged in pro bono work in forming a professional support and knowledge-sharing network, including collaborative research relationships with law students.
Attendees will understand the rights of individuals and groups belonging to indigenous and traditional cultures; the legal status groups must possess to benefit from legal protection; methods in place by which group rights can be protected; and the issues relating to the protection and management of those rights.
For more information please visit the website or contact Dr Aarathi Prasad, UCL Science, Medicine, and Society Network (Phone: 07507 195 665).