Gratuit.
Le Centre sur les droits de la personne et le pluralisme juridique a le plaisir d’accueillir le professeur Obiora C. Okafor, titulaire de la Chaire de recherche York en droit international et transnational à Osgoode Hall, pour la Conférence annuelle John Humphrey en droits de la personne, organisée cette année en collaboration avec le Bicentenaire de McGill.
Le conférencier
[En anglais seulement] Professor Obiora Chinedu Okafor is the Inaugural York Research Chair in International and Transnational Legal Studies. He joined Osgoode Hall Law School after holding faculty positions at the University of Nigeria, Enugu Campus, Nigeria, and at Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada. Professor Okafor has published extensively in the fields of international human rights law and immigration/refugee law, as well as general public international law (especially with regard to third world approaches to international law). His most recent book is titled Refugee Law after 9/11: Sanctuary and Security in Canada and the United States (UBC Press, 2020). He is currently leading a major SSHRC-funded partnership development, research and dissemination project covering six countries relating to Canadian/African human rights engagements, and another project on the dissemination of the African Human Rights Action Plan. Since August 2017, Professor Okafor has served as the UN Independent Expert on Human Rights and International Solidarity and a former Chairperson of the UN Human Rights Council Advisory Committee in Geneva.
Les conférences Humphrey
La Conférence annuelle John Peters Humphrey en droits de la personne a été créée en 1988 afin de souligner le 40e anniversaire de la Déclaration universelle des droits de l’homme des Nations Unies, dont la première ébauche fut rédigée par John Humphrey (BCL 1928), professeur de droit à McGill.