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

  1. Justice A.K. Sikri, former Judge-Supreme Court of India

  2. Justice Richard H. Bernstein, American Lawyer and Michigan Supreme Court Justice

  3. Judge Ronald Gould (U.S. Court of Appeals, 9th Circuit)

  4. 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)

Keynote : Mr. Danlami Umaru BASHARU-Executive Director, ANWAB;

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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