{"id":6354,"date":"2021-05-19T14:31:42","date_gmt":"2021-05-19T13:31:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/law-news\/?p=6354"},"modified":"2021-05-26T07:32:39","modified_gmt":"2021-05-26T06:32:39","slug":"2020-21-cecil-annual-lecture-a-global-human-rights-litigation-agenda-by-the-global-legal-action-network-glan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/law-news\/2020-21-cecil-annual-lecture-a-global-human-rights-litigation-agenda-by-the-global-legal-action-network-glan\/","title":{"rendered":"2020-21 CeCIL Annual Lecture: A global human rights litigation agenda by the Global Legal Action Network (GLAN)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"lead\">Kent Law School\u2019s Centre for Critical International Law (CeCIL) will showcase the groundbreaking work of the Global Legal Action Network (GLAN) for this year\u2019s Annual Lecture.<\/p>\n<p>The Lecture will be delivered online from 19.00 \u2013 20.00 BST on Wednesday 23 June by GLAN co-founders Dr Gear\u00f3id \u00d3 Cuinn and Dr Ioannis Kalpouzos. It will be hosted in partnership with KMTV, the county\u2019s dedicated television channel.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.glanlaw.org\/\">GLAN<\/a> is a non-profit organisation comprising a unique collaboration of academics, practitioners and investigative journalists. It is dedicated to fighting structural global inequality and injustice in the areas of climate change, migration and supply chains, amongst others, through international human rights legal actions. GLAN pursues innovative legal actions across borders, challenging states and other powerful actors involved with human rights violations.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.glanlaw.org\/executive-members\">Dr \u00d3 Cuinn<\/a> currently serves as Director of GLAN and is responsible for GLAN\u2019s legal actions and strategic growth. He is also a Visiting Fellow at the Transnational Law Institute at Kings College London and an adjunct lecturer at the Irish Centre for Human Rights. His academic research focuses on public international law, human rights and public health governance.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.glanlaw.org\/legal-action-committee\">Dr Kalpouzos<\/a> is a Member of the Legal Action Committee at GLAN which is responsible for advising and providing technical expertise on GLAN\u2019s legal actions. He is a scholar and practitioner in public international law, international criminal law, the law of war and human rights law. He is also a faculty member at City Law School, University of London, and a professor at Boston University School of Law, and Harvard Law School.<\/p>\n<p>In their talk for CeCiL, Dr Gear\u00f3id and Dr Ioannis will cover:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>GLAN\u2019s work on global climate justice<\/li>\n<li>open-source intelligence and aerial bombardment<\/li>\n<li>the exploitation of conflict affected territories by corporations<\/li>\n<li>the violence against migrants in Europe and Australia<\/li>\n<li>and accountability and supply chains, including China\u2019s treatment of its Uyghur population.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>CeCIL\u2019s Annual Lecture is free and open to all: <a href=\"https:\/\/cecilannuallecture2021.eventbrite.co.uk\/\">Register on Eventbrite<\/a>.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/research.kent.ac.uk\/cecil\/\">CeCIL<\/a> is an innovative research centre which aims to foster critical approaches to the field of international law, and other areas of law that touch upon global legal problems. In addition to an annual lecture, CeCIL offers a busy programme of activities for Kent Law School students, including a speaker and films series and workshops for students keen to develop their employability and international law skills. CeCIL also strives to engage students, scholars and practitioners interested in the critical study of international law around the world through developing collaborations and joint research efforts.<\/p>\n<p><em>Image credit: Nelson Sierra G, El Espectador.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/law-news\/files\/2021\/05\/Screenshot-2021-05-19-at-14.19.39.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-6356\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/law-news\/files\/2021\/05\/Screenshot-2021-05-19-at-14.19.39.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1256\" height=\"1790\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Image credit: <a href=\"https:\/\/flickr.com\/photos\/26344495@N05\/51058381908\">\u2018Protester holding a sign with &#8220;Climate Justice Now&#8221; message at a Global Climate Strike\u2019<\/a> by Ivan Radic CC BY 2.0<\/em><\/p>\n<ul class=\"kent-social-links\"><li><a href='http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/law-news\/2020-21-cecil-annual-lecture-a-global-human-rights-litigation-agenda-by-the-global-legal-action-network-glan\/&amp;t=2020-21 CeCIL Annual Lecture: A global human rights litigation agenda by the Global Legal Action Network (GLAN)' target='_blank'><i class='ksocial-facebook' title='Share via Facebook'><\/i><\/a><\/li><li><a href='http:\/\/twitter.com\/home?status=2020-21 CeCIL Annual Lecture: A global human rights litigation agenda by the Global Legal Action Network (GLAN)%20https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/law-news\/2020-21-cecil-annual-lecture-a-global-human-rights-litigation-agenda-by-the-global-legal-action-network-glan\/' target='_blank'><i class='ksocial-twitter' title='Share via Twitter'><\/i><\/a><\/li><li><a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/share?url=https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/law-news\/2020-21-cecil-annual-lecture-a-global-human-rights-litigation-agenda-by-the-global-legal-action-network-glan\/' target='_blank'><i class='ksocial-google-plus' title='Share via Google Plus'><\/i><\/a><\/li><li><a href='http:\/\/linkedin.com\/shareArticle?mini=true&amp;url=https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/law-news\/2020-21-cecil-annual-lecture-a-global-human-rights-litigation-agenda-by-the-global-legal-action-network-glan\/&amp;title=2020-21 CeCIL Annual Lecture: A global human rights litigation agenda by the Global Legal Action Network (GLAN)' target='_blank'><i class='ksocial-linkedin' title='Share via Linked In'><\/i><\/a><\/li><li><a href='mailto:content=https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/law-news\/2020-21-cecil-annual-lecture-a-global-human-rights-litigation-agenda-by-the-global-legal-action-network-glan\/&amp;title=2020-21 CeCIL Annual Lecture: A global human rights litigation agenda by the Global Legal Action Network (GLAN)' target='_blank'><i class='ksocial-email' title='Share via Email'><\/i><\/a><\/li><\/ul>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kent Law School\u2019s Centre for Critical International Law (CeCIL) will showcase the groundbreaking work of the Global Legal Action Network (GLAN) for this year\u2019s Annual &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/law-news\/2020-21-cecil-annual-lecture-a-global-human-rights-litigation-agenda-by-the-global-legal-action-network-glan\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":38005,"featured_media":6355,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[146423,124,92931],"tags":[146423,220076,252470],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/law-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6354"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/law-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/law-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/law-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/38005"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/law-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6354"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/law-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6354\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6364,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/law-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6354\/revisions\/6364"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/law-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6355"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/law-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6354"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/law-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6354"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/law-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6354"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}