Imaginative Law: Advocacy and Peace Building seminar with Dr Rebecca Dudley
| Date: | Thursday 13 May, 12pm - 1:30pm |
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| Location: | AUT City Campus WF Building, WF710 Auckland New Zealand |
| Contact: | natalia.szablewska@aut.ac.nz |
Following World War II there was a burgeoning of international law to address the urgent humanitarian and human rights challenges of the age. This lecture shares the story of two key projects, in humanitarian and human rights law, and the ways they provided imaginative and purposeful responses to enormous global challenges.
About the speaker
Dr Rebecca Dudley has been the International Humanitarian Law Adviser to New Zealand Red Cross since 2016. Prior to that, between 2009 and 2015, she was in charge of human rights training for the Police Service of Northern Ireland as part of the peace process there. She has also worked in areas relating to international development, community development, transitional justice, human rights advocacy, and reducing sexual and gender-based harms. She has a BA in History from Yale University in the US and received a LLM and PhD in international law from Queen’s University Belfast.