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Lunch Hour Lectures - Autumn 2009 - Episode 9: Why the courts are as important as hospitals to the nation's health
Professor Genn will focus on the critical ways in which courts support society and the economy and on how they have directly improved standards of medicine practice and healthcare. She will also discuss new evidence about the link between access to justice and health and consider whether much of what turns up in doctors’ surgeries (including requests for anti-depressants) are in fact the results of an inability to access the courts.
Vintage Podcasts - Lunch Hour Lectures
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7/25/2023
This week we ask: if the international community can’t make states abide by their human rights obligations, what’s the point of invoking human rights?
EPISODE NOTES
Human rights atrocities make headlines around the world and are usually followed by a national and international debate over how the perpetrators should be punished, and how these events might be prevented in the future.
The government of the country where such human rights violations take place often comes under intense criticism and is pressured into creating processes of enquiry or passing legislation. And yet, often, little seems to change on the ground, and victims of human rights violations are rarely, if ever, are satisfied with the outcome. This begs the question: what is the point of these international calls for justice, if justice is rarely forthcoming?
A new book dealing with these questions and the contradictions in the international human rights order was released this year. Its author is Dr Kate Croni
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1/9/2023
Professor Thomas explains the findings of her research into the behaviour of juries and their implications for the criminal justice system.
UCL_News_Podcast_Are_juries_fair-audio
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5/19/2021
"To be or not to be: a decision for the individual or
the state?"
The UCL & Bindman debate 2009 centered on the legal, medical and ethical arguments surrounding the topical issue of assisted suicide in Britain. A packed auditorium heard both sides to the argument of whether the current law should change to allow people to help terminally ill patients to travel to a country in which assisted suicide is lawful, without fear of being prosecuted.
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5/7/2021
"To be or not to be: a decision for the individual or
the state?"
The UCL & Bindman debate 2009 centered on the legal, medical and ethical arguments surrounding the topical issue of assisted suicide in Britain. A packed auditorium heard both sides to the argument of whether the current law should change to allow people to help terminally ill patients to travel to a country in which assisted suicide is lawful, without fear of being prosecuted.
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5/7/2021
Renowned South African judge and freedom fighter Albie Sachs launched his book 'The Strange Alchemy of Life and Law' with a public lecture in the UCL Bloomsbury Theatre on 26 October 2009.
Justice Sachs as twice a refugee from South Africa to the UK. The first occasion, in 1966, followed his detention without charge or trial under the 90-day rule of the apartheid era. After his release, he was immediately rearrested and confined for a further 90 days in solitary confinement.
The second time was after the South African secret service placed a bomb in his car in Mozambique in 1988, leading to the loss of an arm and the sight of one eye.
In the 1990s he was appointed Judge of the South African Constitutional Court by the then President Mandela.
In this podcast, Albie Sachs discusses why he wrote his latest book, the democratic purpose of laughter, and the role universities can play in protecting human rights.
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2/19/2021
Renowned South African judge and freedom fighter Albie Sachs launched his book 'The Strange Alchemy of Life and Law' with a public lecture in the UCL Bloomsbury Theatre on 26 October 2009.
Justice Sachs as twice a refugee from South Africa to the UK. The first occasion, in 1966, followed his detention without charge or trial under the 90-day rule of the apartheid era. After his release, he was immediately rearrested and confined for a further 90 days in solitary confinement.
The second time was after the South African secret service placed a bomb in his car in Mozambique in 1988, leading to the loss of an arm and the sight of one eye.
In the 1990s he was appointed Judge of the South African Constitutional Court by the then President Mandela.
In this podcast, Albie Sachs discusses why he wrote his latest book, the democratic purpose of laughter, and the role universities can play in protecting human rights.
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2/19/2021
Comparative design research strategies across Beirut, Bologna, Quito and Wuwei prepared by BUDD students Alejandra Arellano, Lorenzo Balugani, Tong Chen and Dina Mneimneh for DEVP04 module.
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12/18/2020