This is the second event in the Corporate Power and Human Rights project event series for 2013-14, exploring the impact of corporate power on politics, society and democracy.
Speaker: Professor David Kinley
Professor David Kinley holds the Chair in Human Rights Law at University of Sydney. He is an Academic Panel member of Doughty Street Chambers in London, and a member of the Australian Council for Human Rights. Previously, he was the Founding Director of the Castan Centre for Human Rights Law at Monash University in Melbourne, and a founding member of Australian Lawyers for Human Rights.
For more than 20 years he has also advised and worked for a range of governments, international agencies, corporations and NGOs in many countries on human rights law and practice. His particular expertise is in human rights and the global economy, in which field his most recent publications include:Civilising Globalisation: Human Rights and the Global Economy (2009) (a Chinese edition of which was published in June this year); The WTO and Human Rights: Interdisciplinary Perspectives (2009); Principled Engagement: Promoting Human Rights in Repressive States (2013); and Human Rights: Old Problems and New Possibilities (2013). He is also author (with Saul and Mowbray) of The International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights: Commentary, Cases and Materials, to be published by OUP in March 2014.
Currently he is working on a new book that focuses on the intersections between global finance and human rights, entitled An Awkward Intimacy: Why Human Rights and Finance must Learn to Love Each Other, and has just embarked on a new research project investigating the profound impact corruption has on the realization of human rights and on that basis mounting an argument for a new human right to freedom from corruption.