The 2005-06 Wright Lecture

Philip G. Alston
Professor of Law
Director, Center for Human Rights and Global Justice
New York University School of Law

"The UN's 'Reformed' Human Rights Regime: Three Challenges"

October 6, 2005
4:00 pm
Bennett Lecture Hall
Flavelle House - Faculty of Law
78 Queen's Park

Philip Alston is Professor of Law and Faculty Director of the Center for Human Rights and Global Justice at New York University School of Law. He is currently UN Special Rapporteur on Extrajudicial, Summary or Arbitrary Executions, as well as being Special Adviser to the UN High Commissioner on Human Rights in relation to the Millennium Development Goals.  For 2005-06 he is Chairperson of the Coordinating Committee of Human Rights Special Procedures of the UN Commission on Human Rights.  He previously chaired the UN Committee on Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights for eight years until 1998. He was UNICEF's legal adviser throughout the period of the drafting of the U.N. Convention on the Rights of the Child, and was director of a major project commissioned by the European Commission, which resulted in the publication of a Human Rights Agenda for the European Union for the Year 2000 and led to major changes in EU human rights policy. Alston has been editor-in-chief of the European Journal of International Law since 1996.