UNE’s Law School invites you to the
Annual Sir Frank Kitto Public Lecture 2020
Presented by

Laureate Professor
Hilary Charlesworth AM

Melbourne Law School, Distinguished Professor, ANU College of Law and member, Permanent Court of Arbitration

Human Rights in the Time of COVID-19

This lecture will discuss the impact and implications of human rights during the Covid-19 era. It will examine the global human rights framework and identify the guidance it offers in times of a public health emergency, as well as its silences. It will also address the complex ways in which the language of human rights has been deployed in the context of this pandemic.

Hilary Charlesworth is a Melbourne Laureate Professor at Melbourne Law School. She is also a Distinguished Professor at the Australian National University. Her research includes the structure of the international legal system, peacebuilding, human rights law and international humanitarian law, international legal theory, particularly feminist approaches to international law and the art of international law.

Hilary received the American Society of International Law’s award for creative legal scholarship for her book, co-authored with Christine Chinkin, The Boundaries of International Law. She was awarded, with Christine Chinkin, the American Society of International Law’s Goler T. Butcher award for ‘outstanding contributions to the development or effective realization of international human rights law’. Hilary has held both an Australian Research Council Federation Fellowship (2005-2010) and an ARC Laureate Fellowship (2010-2015).

Hilary has been a visiting professor at various institutions including Harvard Law School, New York University Global Law School, UCLA, Paris I and the London School of Economics. She is a member of the Executive Council of the Asian Society of International Law and a past President of the Australian and New Zealand Society of International Law.
Hilary is a member of the Permanent Court of Arbitration. In 2016, Hilary received an Honorary Doctorate from the Université Catholique de Louvain in Belgium. She delivered the General Course in Public International Law at the Hague Academy in 2019. She is an associate member of the Institut de Droit International and served as Judge ad hoc in the International Court of Justice in the Whaling in the Antarctic case
(Australia v Japan) (2011-2014) and is currently Judge ad hoc in the Arbitral Award of 3 October 1899 case (Guyana v Venezuela).

Was held at 1pm Wednesday 18 November 2020
Via Zoom Webinar