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March 14, 2005 Security and Trade Challenges to Human Rights Fredericton – Professor Wayne MacKay will deliver the 2005 Lodhi Memorial Lecture in Human Rights on Thursday, March 17, 2005, at 4:00 pm, in the Ted Daigle Auditorium, Edmund Casey Hall, St. Thomas University. The lecture will be on “Human Rights in the Global Village: The Challenges of Security and International Trade”. Professor MacKay, Professor of Law at Dalhousie University and Vice-Chair of the International Human Rights and Democracy Board, is former President of Mount Allison University, former Chair of the Nova Scotia Human Rights Commission and recipient of the Walter S. Tarnopolsky National Human Rights Award. He has earned a distinguished reputation as an educator, researcher, public servant and constitutional lawyer. Professor McKay has received many teaching awards, including the 1999 W.P.M. Kennedy Memorial Award as the top law professor in Canada, and has written five books in educational law and more than sixty academic articles in constitutional law and human rights. The annual memorial lecture honours Dr. Abdul Lodhi who taught at St. Thomas from 1984-1991 and was one of the founders of the Atlantic Human Rights Centre. The Atlantic Human Rights Centre was established to promote and develop
multidisciplinary teaching and research in the area of human rights.
The Centre conducts a wide assortment of activities, including the
two annual lectures by distinguished speakers: the Dr. Bernie Vigod
Memorial Lecture in Human Rights in the fall semester and the Dr.
Abdul Lodhi Lecture in the winter semester. It also conducts an intensive
summer course for teachers on teaching human rights. Media Contact – Jeffrey Carleton, St. Thomas University, (506) 452-0522 or carleton@stu.ca. |
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