How should a liberal democracy react to conscientious objection claims? - Online event, 11 Feb
‘How should a liberal democracy react to conscientious objection claims?’
Four panel sessions of an informed debate on conscientious objection from legal, philosophical, theological and religious perspectives, and finally a discussion on how legislators and governments in liberal democracies should react to claims of conscience.
Online event | Thursday, 11 February 2021 | 14:00–18:15 GMT
Certificates of attendance for Law Society of Ireland CPD Scheme will be provided
Places are free - booking is essential - all welcome
More information and booking here
Panels
- Concepts of Conscience
- Conscience in Legal Perspective: Challenges and Controversies
- Theological and Religious Perspectives on Conscience
- Reacting to Conscience Claims in the Public Square
Chairs
- Mr Bryan Dobson, presenter of the RTÉ Radio News at One
- Professor Bert Gordijn, Director of the Institute of Ethics, Dublin City University
- Dr Mary McAleese, Professor of Children, Law and Religion, University of Glasgow
- Professor David Smith, Healthcare Ethics, RCSI University of Medicine and Health Sciences
Panellists
- Dr John Adenitire, Queen Mary, University of London
- Professor Kimberley Brownlee, The University of British Columbia
- Professor Fiona de Londras, University of Birmingham
- Dr Katherine Furman, University of Liverpool
- Advocate General Gerard Hogan, Court of Justice of the European Union
- Professor Linda Hogan, Trinity College Dublin
- Professor David Albert Jones, The Anscombe Bioethics Centre
- Professor Ronan McCrea, University College London
- Senator Michael McDowell, Houses of the Oireachtas
- Dr Regina McQuillan, St Francis Hospice
- Professor David Novak, University of Toronto.
All welcome...
More information and booking here
Certificates of attendance for Law Society of Ireland CPD Scheme will be provided.