The Human Rights Programme of the Faculty of Laws, University of Malta, will be hosting its first symposium on Human Rights Day, 10 December. The topic selected for study and discussion is Human Rights Protection under Modern Constitutional Law, as an academic contribution to the current national debate on constitutional reform.
The day will be made up of contributions relating to specific issues under human rights protection, including workshops and a panel led general discussion. Professor Jim Murdoch from the University of Glasgow has been invited to deliver a keynote address. Professor Murdoch is an internationally renowned scholar in the field of human rights and has a particular interest in non-judicial human rights enforcement mechanisms.