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DAY ONE: 2 October 2009 Human Rights, Law and Social Justice

09:00 – 09:05 Welcome

Professor Angelo Pantazis, Head, Wits School of Law

09:05 – 09:30 Opening Remarks

Judge Carole Lewis, Supreme Court of Appeal

09:30 – 10:30 Chair: Professor Raylene Keightley, CALS

Law, Human Rights and Social Justice: From Apartheid to Democracy

Judge Dennis Davis, High Court, Western Cape

Professor Cathi Albertyn, Wits School of Law

10:30 – 11:00 Tea

11:00 – 13:00 Chair: Judge Dennis Davis, High Court, Western Cape

Panel Discussion: CALS, Public Interest Law and the Legacy of John Dugard – Rights, Law and Social Change

Professor Halton Cheadle, University of Cape Town, Faculty of Law

Advocate Gilbert Marcus SC, Johannesburg Bar

Dr Jackie Dugard, CALS

Stuart Wilson, Johannesburg Bar, Wits School of Law

Fatima Hassan, Special Advisor, Minister of Public Enterprises

Jody Kollapen, Previous Chairperson, South African Human Rights Commission

13:00 – 14:00 Lunch

14:00 – 15:00 Chair: Professor Sandra Liebenberg, Faculty of Law, University of Stellenbosch

The Defence of Legality in the United States since 9/11: Lessons from South Africa

Professor Rick Abel, University of California, Los Angeles

15:00 – 15:30 Tea

15:30 – 16:30 Chair: Justice Dikgang Moseneke, Deputy Chief Justice, Constitutional Court

Dugard’s Moral Critique of Apartheid Judges: Lessons for Today

Justice Edwin Cameron, Constitutional Court

DAY TWO: 3 October 2009 Dugard in the International Arena

09:00 – 09:10 Welcome

Professor Mia Swart, Associate Professor, Wits School of Law

09:10 – 10:30 Chair: Professor Mia Swart

Dugard’s Work at Leiden and his Contribution to the International Court of Justice

Professor Marcel Brus, Professor of Public International Law, University of Groningen

John Dugard and the Continuing Struggle for International Human Rights

Professor Max du Plessis, Associate Professor, University of Kwa-Zulu Natal

10:30 – 11:00 Tea

11:00 – 12:30 Chair: Ntombozuko Dyani, Senior Lecturer, Wits School of Law

Dugard’s Work as Special Rapporteur on the Human Rights Situation in the Occupied Palestinian Territories

Professor Vera Gowlland-Debbas, Professor of Public International Law, Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, University of Geneva

The Warning Voice from Heidelberg: Dugard, Radbruch and the Prosecution of State Injustice

Professor Mia Swart

12:30 – 13:30 Lunch

13:30 – 15:15 Chair: Justice Albie Sachs, Judge, Constitutional Court

The South West Africa Cases

Professor Marinus Wiechers, Professor Emeritus, University of South Africa

Panel Discussion: Dugard’s Contribution to Leading South African Cases Involving International Law

Advocate Anton Katz, Member of the Cape Bar and New York Bar

Professor Max du Plessis, Associate Professor, University of KwaZulu-Natal

Professor Kader Asmal, Extraordinary Professor, University of the Western Cape

15:15 – 15:45 Closing Remarks

Professor John Dugard

15:45 Tea