Colonialism, Slavery, Trade, Reparations
Remedying the 'Past'?
Conference 10 November 2008
Audio Notes
Speeches to conference can be accessed as sound files by clicking on the
speaker’s name below.
The first speaker was Professor Rhoda
Howard-Hassmann from Wilfred Laurier University in Canada, whose keynote
address was followed by a Q&A session which starts 27 minutes into this
recording.
The second speaker was Professor Dinah Shelton,
Manatt/Ahn Professor of International Law, The George Washington University Law
School.
Professor Shelton was followed by Clemens Nathan
of the Conference on Jewish Material Claims; the last 19 minutes of this
recording are taken up by Professor Shelton’s reply to some of the questions
raised by Clemens Nathan.
The afternoon session was opened by Dr. Sheila
Dziobon, Senior Lecturer in Law, School of Law & Social Science,
University of Plymouth; she was followed by Dr. Paul
McHugh, Reader in Law, University of
Cambridge, Madge Dresser, Reader in
History, University of the West of England, and
Marika Sherwood, Hon. Senior Research Fellow, Institute of Commonwealth
Studies, University of London.
John Packer then introduced His Excellency
Ambassador de Alba, Permanent Representative of Mexico at the UN who
gave the plenary address. The Q&A session that followed the ambassador’s address
starts 27 minutes into this recording.
Fernne introduced the next panel. His Excellency
Kwesi Quartey, Ghana ambassador to
Ethiopia and Permanent Representative to the African Union,
Esther Stanford, juris consult and
representative of the Pan-African Reparations Coalition,
Kate Bracegirdle, Solicitor and Senior
Lecturer at the School of Law of the University of Sheffield. Responding to the
discussions Rohan Kariyawasam, Senior
Lecturer, Solicitor, Cardiff Law School, Cardiff University, and Professor
Steve Peers, School of Law, Essex University.
The recording of professor Theo van Boven’s plenary address was unfortunately
cut short through technical problems. The first part of the address can be heard
by clicking here, while notes of the
unrecorded part of the address can be read in the rapporteur notes which can be
accessed here.
Professor Peter Muchlinski, School of Law, SOAS, Professor of International
Commercial Law chaired the day’s last panel, on which Marcus Goffe, Kirsteen
Shields and Darren Calley briefly spoke as
discussants.
