{"id":2920,"date":"2015-04-27T07:18:53","date_gmt":"2015-04-27T06:18:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theologyphilosophycentre.co.uk\/?p=2920"},"modified":"2015-04-27T07:21:49","modified_gmt":"2015-04-27T06:21:49","slug":"conference-whats-wrong-with-rights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/theologyphilosophycentre.co.uk\/2015\/04\/27\/conference-whats-wrong-with-rights\/","title":{"rendered":"Conference: What&#8217;s Wrong with Rights?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/theologyphilosophycentre.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/McDonaldCentre.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"\" style=\"border: none;\" src=\"http:\/\/theologyphilosophycentre.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/McDonaldCentre.png\" alt=\"McDonaldCentre\" width=\"464\" height=\"98\" \/><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>WHAT\u2019S WRONG WITH RIGHTS?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A McDonald Centre conference<br \/>\nChrist Church, Oxford<br \/>\nThursday 21 May &#8211; Friday 22 May 2015<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>How absolute are rights?<\/li>\n<li>Do rights trump other moral considerations?<\/li>\n<li>What is the difference between natural rights and legally recognised rights?<\/li>\n<li>Do rights do justice to proper claims of the common good?<\/li>\n<li>What is the status of rights in a society&#8217;s transition from conflict to peace?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Speakers:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Professor Nigel Biggar<\/strong>, moral theologian, University of Oxford; author of <em>In Defence of War <\/em>and \u201cIndividual Rights versus Common Security? Christian Moral Reasoning about Torture\u201d<\/li>\n<li><strong>Lord (Simon) Brown of Eaton-under-Heywood<\/strong>, former Justice of the Supreme Court<\/li>\n<li><strong>Dr Pierre Hazan<\/strong>, Centre d&#8217;Enseignement et de Recherche en Action Humanitaire de Gen\u00e8ve;\u00a0author of <em>Juger La Guerre, Juger L&#8217;Histoire<\/em><\/li>\n<li><strong>Rev. Nicholas Mercer<\/strong>, former Lt.-Col.; the British Army\u2019s chief legal adviser in Iraq; and\u00a0Liberty Human Rights Lawyer of 2011-12<\/li>\n<li><strong>Professor John Milbank<\/strong>, theologian, University of Nottingham; author of \u201cAgainst\u00a0Human Rights: Liberty in the Western Tradition\u201d<\/li>\n<li><strong>Baroness (Onora) O&#8217;Neill<\/strong>, philosopher and chair of the Equality and Human Rights Commission;\u00a0former President of the British Academy; \u00a0author of \u201cThe Dark Side of Human Rights\u201d<\/li>\n<li><strong>Professor Esther Reed<\/strong>, theologian, University of Exeter; author of <em>The Ethics of Human Rights<\/em>:\u00a0<em>Contested Doctrinal and Moral Issues<\/em><\/li>\n<li><strong>Professor Julian Rivers<\/strong>, lawyer, University of Bristol<\/li>\n<li><strong>Professor David Tombs<\/strong>, theologian and scholar of peace studies, University of Otago, New\u00a0Zealand; author of <em>Rights and Righteousness: Religious Pluralism and Human Rights<\/em><\/li>\n<li><strong>Lt.-Col. (ret&#8217;d) Tom Tugendhat<\/strong>, former Principal Adviser to the Chief of the Defence Staff;\u00a0author of <em>The Fog of Law;<\/em><\/li>\n<li><strong>Professor Paul Yowell<\/strong>, lawyer, University of Oxford; former postdoctoral fellow with the\u00a0Oxford Law Faculty for the AHRC project Parliaments and Human Rights.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Please visit <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mcdonaldcentre.org.uk\/events\">www.mcdonaldcentre.org.uk\/events<\/a><\/strong> for details and registration. The conference will run from 10:30am on Thursday 21 May to 1pm on Friday 22 May. Cost: \u00a360 full rate \/ \u00a330 student rate.<\/p>\n<p>Download the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/theologyphilosophycentre.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/McDonald-2015-Poster.pdf\">conference flyer<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Download the <a href=\"http:\/\/theologyphilosophycentre.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/programme-march-2015.docx\">conference programme<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WHAT\u2019S WRONG WITH RIGHTS? A McDonald Centre conference Christ Church, Oxford Thursday 21 May &#8211; Friday 22 May 2015 How absolute are rights? Do rights trump other moral considerations? What is the difference between natural rights and legally recognised rights? Do rights do justice to proper claims of the common good? 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