Centre for International Law Launch Event

7 February 2022, 5.00 PM - 7 February 2022, 7.00 PM

The Great Hall, Wills Memorial Building

University of Bristol staff and students are warmly invited to the Centre for International Law launch event, taking place on Monday 7 February 2022 - if you’re interested in finding out more about a career in human rights, don’t miss this event!

We are delighted to announce that Law School alumna Phillippa Kaufmann QC, renowned human rights barrister, will be joining us as event speaker.

Phillippa will share her experience of working on behalf of Iraqis detained by the British military after the Iraq war was over and the UK remained under UN resolutions – reflecting on using human rights law under the European Convention on Human Rights in our domestic courts, and the interplay of International Humanitarian Law and International Human Rights Law.

Centre members will then present a showcase of current research themes within the Centre, followed by an opportunity to network with staff - from research institutes from across the University as well as all the Law School - over light refreshments.

Please register for this event via Eventbrite.

Further Information

For more information about this event, please contact Paige Spicer.

The Centre for International Law brings together one of the largest and most diverse communities of international lawyers in the UK, providing an interdisciplinary platform for collaboration, engagement with external institutions, and the dissemination of internationally-recognised research tackling some of the most pressing international challenges of our time.

Phillippa Kaufmann, barrister at Matrix Chambers, graduated from the Law School in 1988. She specialises in both public and private law tackling the unlawful use of the coercive machinery of the state against the individual, including in the fields of prisoners’ rights, mental health, inquests and actions against the police. She took silk in 2011. She has been involved in cases challenging ill-treatment by the  UK military abroad – in Kenya during the pre-independence struggle and in Iraq and Afghanistan following 9/11. Phillippa acted for two victims of the black-cab rapist John Worboys case in the Supreme Court against the police for failing effectively to investigate his crimes and in the High Court successfully challenging the Parole Board’s decision to release him. She has acted for the many of the women who were deceived into sexual relationships with police officers. Recently, she has acted for the policing partner of  Yvonne Fletcher, who was shot dead in 1984 from inside the Libyan embassy. She is currently representing TalkTalk customers in a data protection. In 2019 she was awarded 'Human Rights and Public Law Silk of the Year' at the Chambers and Partners Bar Awards - and is identified by them as a 'star practitioner in the fields of Public Law, Civil Liberties and Police Law'.

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