International Law and Politics

Professor Hilary Charlesworth

Professor of International Law and Director of the Centre for International and Public Law in the Faculty of Law, ANU

“Is the War on Terror Compatible with Human Rights?: An International Law Perspective” [View paper (PDF, 180KB)]

 

Abstract: The paper will consider the particular challenges raised for the international human rights system by the 'war on terror' declared in the wake of the events of 11 September 2001. 

 

Taking an international focus, it will argue that a human rights framework is critical for the success of such an enterprise and will examine the practical and legal implications of acting otherwise.

 

Bio: Hilary Charlesworth is Professor and Director of the Centre for International and Public Law at the Australian National University. She was educated at the University of Melbourne and Harvard Law School. 

 

She has taught at the universities of Melbourne and Adelaide and has been a visiting professor at Washington & Lee School of Law, Harvard Law School and the Global Law Faculty at New York University.

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