Courts play a crucial role in upholding commitments to human rights in Australia and elsewhere. But there are also important limits to that role. The question this raises is how they should define and maintain those limits, or when and how they should defer to political actors in this process. In this special seminar, hosted by the Gilbert + Tobin Centre of Public Law and Greater Sydney Law Schools’ Public Law Reading Group, Professor Cora Chan (HKU) explores these questions through the lens of her important new book, Deference in Human Rights Adjudication (OUP 2024), and in conversation with Centre Director Professor Rosalind Dixon.
The session will be chaired by Centre member Harry Hobbs (Associate Professor, UNSW Law & Justice).
The event will be held in a hybrid format at the UNSW Law & Justice (F8), level two, boardroom and online via Teams. For those attending in-person, lunch will be served at 1pm.
The GSPL Series brings together public law academics from across greater Sydney to discuss global books in the field of public law. It is convened by colleagues at UNSW, USyd, UTS, WSU, and Macquarie.