Pacific McGeorge School of Law Invites Public to Lecture on Counter Terrorism by Ireland's Judge John Hedigan
March 29, 2005For Immediate Release - March 29, 2005 - Sacramento, CA
Contact: Janet Konttinen, 916.739.7047, cell 916.216.6362
Judge John Hedigan, the fourth speaker in Pacific McGeorge’s Distinguished International Jurist Series, will address the public on Wednesday, April 6 at 4:00pm in the law school’s Gordon D. Schaber Law Library, California Reading Room. The topic of his lecture will be, “Counter Terrorism and Civil Liberties: 50 Years of Judicial Supervision in the European Court of Human Rights”.
A distinguished lawyer and judge from Ireland, he was elected to the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) in January 1998, and was re-elected in 2004. The ECHR sits in Strasbourg, France and hears cases raising a wide range of issues from member countries of the Council of Europe.
Judge Hedigan helped found the Trinity College Dublin branch of Amnesty International (AI) and has represented the branch on the National Executive Committee for AI for eight years. Judge Hedigan has also served as the National Coordinator for AI’s Campaign Against Torture.
Called to the Bar of Ireland in 1976, Judge Hedigan practiced as a barrister for 22 years before being called to the Inner Bar of Ireland in 1990 as Senior Counsel, the English Bar in 1983, and the Bar of the New South Wales in 1993.
Judge Hedigan’s public lecture tops a four-day agenda of meetings with Pacific McGeorge faculty, staff, students and alums. For more information on Judge Hedigan’s lecture, please call 916-739-7141 or visit the Pacific McGeorge website at www.mcgeorge.edu.
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