2010 Justice KT Desai Memorial Lecture: Prof Paul R. Dubinsky
PROF. PAUL R. DUBINSKY, Professor of Comparative and
International Law at the Wayne State University USA will deliver the 2010
Justice K.T. Desai Memorial Lecture 2010 on “The Human Rights Law
Confronts National Security Law: The Battle for Procedural Norms” from
5:30 pm on Thursday, 11 March 2010, in the Central Court Room (No. 46),
2nd Floor, High Court, Bombay
The lecture is arranged by the Justice K.T. Desai Centenary Committee
and is open to the public.
The Hon’ble the Chief Justice of the Bombay High Court, Mr. Justice
A. R. Dave will preside.
Program
Introductory Remarks Mr. Rohit
Kapadia President, Bombay Bar Association
Welcome Address Mrs. Sujata
Manohar Former Judge, Supreme Court of India
Justice K.T. Desai Memorial
Lecture PROF. PAUL R.
DUBINSKY
Presidential Remarks Mr. Justice Anil R.
Dave Chief Justice, Bombay High Court
Vote of Thanks Mr. Ashok
Mundargi President, Advocates Association Of Western
India
Prof Paul R. Dubinsky
Professor of Comparative and International Law at the Wayne State
University, USA, Paul R. Dubinsky has a distinguished academic career.
He was an associate professor at New York Law School and an adjunct
professor at Georgetown University Law Center. From 1996-97, he served as
associate director of the Allard K. Lowenstein International Human Rights
Clinic and associate director of the Orville H. Schell, Jr. Center for
International Human Rights. As an International Affairs Fellow of the
Council on Foreign Relations, Professor Dubinsky served as a member of the
U.S. delegation to the Hague Conference on Private International Law
during negotiations that culminated in the Hague Choice-of-Court
Convention. Before beginning his career in teaching and scholarship, he
was an associate at Wilmer, Cutler & Pickering and a law clerk to the
Honorable Jon O. Newman of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second
Circuit. He is a graduate of Yale College (summa cum laude), Harvard Law
School (magna cum laude), and the Universiteit Katholieke of Leuven,
Belgium (magna cum laude).
Professor Dubinsky serves on the Executive Committee of the American
branch of the International Law Association, the Executive Editorial Board
of the American Journal of Comparative Law, and the U.S. Secretary of
State’s Advisory Committee on Private International Law. He is also a
reporter for the 2010 International Congress of Comparative Law.
His work reflects a deep concern about the way advocacy for human
rights is dealt with by courts, particularly when the spectre of
transborder ‘terrorism’ leads to a governmental erosion of fundamental
freedoms in the name of security. These concerns are of global relevance.
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