The Rise of Targeted Assassinations and the Implications for International Law
with
Professor Philip Alston
UN Special Rapporteur on Extrajudicial Killings
This seminar is presently jointly by the Castan Centre for Human Rights Law and
the Human Rights Law Resource Centre.
Time: 6pm to 7pm
Date: Wednesday, 19 May 2010
Venue: Monash University Law Chambers, 472 Bourke Street, Melbourne
RSVP: Free public lecture but registration essential to castan.centre@law.monash.edu.au
or (03) 9905 3327
About Philip Alston
Philip Alston is UN Special Rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions, Special Adviser to the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights on the Millennium Development Goals and the John Norton Pomeroy Professor of Law at New York University. He co-chairs the NYU Center for Human Rights and Global Justice.
Professor Alston’s other UN appointments have included stints as a member of the Group of Experts on Darfur appointed in 2007, Chair of the UN Committee on Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights from 1991 until 1998 and UNICEF’s legal adviser during the drafting of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child. He has held appointments at Harvard Law School, the Australian National University and the European University Institute. Professor Alston teaches, researches and publishes primarily in international law and international human rights law. He received degrees in Law and in Economics in Australia and a JSD from Berkeley.
