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Social harmony and religious diversity: is conciliation possible?
10 February 2015, 1:15 pm–2:00 pm
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UCL Lunch Hour Lectures
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UCL Darwin Lecture Theatre, Malet Place, Bloomsbury, Gower Street, London, WC1E 6BT
UCL Lunch Hour Lectures
Speakers: Dr Myriam Hunter-Henin (UCL Laws)
Accreditation: This event is not accredited for CPD
About this event
Can Law tell us when social harmony should legitimately trump individual rights of dissenters and when individual rights to express minority religious beliefs should on the other hand triumph?
Watch the lecture live from 13:15
About the speaker
Myriam Hunter-Henin joined UCL Laws in September 2003. She was formerly a researcher and lecturer at Paris I (Pantheon-Sorbonne). Her main interests are Comparative Law, Family Law, Law and Religion, Private International Law and Bioethics. Her work addresses the implications of human rights in the private sphere, especially the challenges posed to the legal theory of Conflict of Laws and to traditional concepts of family law such as marriage and motherhood. It also addresses the interaction and tensions between law and religion in the sphere of education and family law in a comparative perspective. On 15th April 2013, Myriam Hunter-Henin delivered the 2013 annual ICLQ lecture on religion, human rights and comparative law in the context of burqa bans.
She is currently co-Director of the Institute of Global law, Director of the Faculty’s European Double Degree Programmes and External Examiner for Exeter University.
She is also a Fellow of the Comité français de droit international privé in Paris, France, of the British Association of Comparative Law, of the Société de législation compare, Paris, France and of the Franco-British Lawyers’ Association.
About UCL lunch hour lectures
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