DETAILED SCHEDULE
DAY 1 - 01 December 2020–Tuesday - 05.45 pm to 08.20 pm (IST) Session dedicated to Academicians
Keynote : Ms. Maria Soledad Cisternas (video message) UN Special Envoy of the Secretary-General on Disability and Accessibility
Speakers :
1. Professor Michael Ashley Stein, Harvard Law School
2. Professor Peter Blanck, University Professor
Chairman, Burton Blatt Institute, USA.
3. Professor Anna Lawson, School of Law, University of Leeds
Joint Director, Centre for Disability Studies, University of Leeds
4. Dr. Paul Harpur, Associate Professor, University of Queensland Law School;
Academic Fellow, Harvard Law School Project on Disability;
Burton Blatt Institute, Syracuse University, USA;
5. Prof. Shirish Deshpande, Professor, Maharashtra National Law University, Nagpur, India.
6. Dr. Sanjay Jain, Associate Professor; Additional Charge-Principal, ILS Law College, Pune, India
Moderator : Prof. Sandra Fredman-Professor of Law, Oxford University; Director, Oxford Human Rights Hub
DAY 2 - 02 December 2020 – Wednesday - 06.00 pm to 08.15 pm (IST) - Session dedicated to Lawyers
Speakers :
1. ZHANG, Wanhong
Professor, Wuhan University School of Law
Executive Director, Wuhan University Institute for Human Rights Studies (National Human Rights Education and Training Base); Director, Wuhan University Public Interest and Development Law Institute, Wuhan, China
2. Mr. S.K. Rungta, Designated Senior Advocate- Delhi High Court, also practices in Supreme Court of India
General Secretary, National Federation of the Blind of India
3. Ms. Laura Wolk, Advocate, Washington.
4. Ms. Carol Taylor, Advocate, Principal Solicitor, Taylor Law & Conveyancing
5. Mr. David Lepofsky, Advocate, Toronto
Moderator : Adv. Rahul Bajaj
DAY 3 - 03 December 2020 – Thursday- Panel Discussion - 10.00 am to 11.36 am (IST)-Session dedicated to Judges
Justice A.K. Sikri, former Judge-Supreme Court of India
Justice Richard H. Bernstein, American Lawyer and Michigan Supreme Court Justice
Judge Ronald Gould (U.S. Court of Appeals, 9th Circuit)
Mr. H.S. Jaggi, Addl. District Judge, South West District Court, Delhi
Moderator : Justice Madan Lokur, former Judge, Supreme Court of India
Fireside chat: Ms. Haben Girma, American Disability Rights Advocate 11:40 am to 12:10 pm IST
Keynote and Valedictory Session - 06.00 to 07.20 pm (IST)
Chair, UN Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities.
06.50pm to 07.15 pm
Valedictory Session– Hon'ble Justice Dr. D.Y. Chandrachud, Judge, Supreme Court of India
Minute to Minute Schedule
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