Chair and Speakers: Biographical Notes (Abridged)
Equality and Human Rights in the UK and Germany: Priorities for Law Reform – 17 January 2013, King’s College London
Chair and Speakers: Biographical notes (abridged)
Professor Lizzie Barmes
Lizzie Barmes joined the Department of Law at Queen Mary, University of London, in 2007. She previously taught at UCL and was a Government Lawyer in the Common Law Team of the Law Commission of England and Wales. Prior to that, she practised as a solicitor, specialising in employment, equality and personal injury litigation. Her current research, in the field of equality law, concerns positive action, the public sector positive duty and judicial diversity. She is also working on promoting gender diversity in the judiciary, in particular through the Equal Justices Initiative. Lizzie is Co-chair of the EDF Research Network.
Professor Sandra Fredman QC
SandraFredman is Rhodes Professor of the Laws of the British Commonwealth and the USA at Oxford University. She was elected a Fellow of the British Academy in 2005. She is Honorary Professor of Law at the University of Cape Town and a fellow of Pembroke College, Oxford. She has written and published widely on anti-discrimination law, human rights law and labour law. She is South African and holds degrees from the University of Witwatersrand and the University of Oxford. She has acted as an expert adviser on equality law and labour legislation in the EU, Northern Ireland, the UK, India, South Africa, Canada and the UN. Sandra is a barrister practising at Old Square Chambers. She is Co-chair of the EDF Research Network.
Professor Maleiha Malik
Maleiha Malik is a Professor in Law. She studied law at the University of London and University of Oxford. She is a barrister and a member and fellow of the Honourable Society of Gray’s Inn. Maleiha’s research focuses on the theory and practice of discrimination law. She has written extensively on discrimination law, minority protection and feminist theory. She is the co-author of a leading text entitled Discrimination Law: Theory and Practice which was published in 2008. She is joint co-ordinator of the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) project on ‘Traditions in the Present’ which explores the relevance of 'tradition' in contemporary societies. Maleiha's current research focuses on the intersection between sexual and cultural equality. She is a member of the EDF Research Network’s steering group.
Philip Oltermann
Philip Oltermann was born in Schleswig-Holstein but moved to England when he was 16. He has written for several English and German newspapers and magazines, including Süddeutsche Zeitung, Granta and the Guardian, where he now works as deputy editor of ‘Comment is free’. He is author of ‘Keeping Up With the Germans: A History of Anglo-German Encounters’, which interweaves memoir and history to look at ten historical encounters between English and German people from the last 200 years.
Dr Beate Rudolf
Beate Rudolf has been the director of the German Institute for Human Rights, Germany’s National Human Rights Institution, since January 2010. Prior to that, she was a junior professor of public law and equality law at the Free University of Berlin and director of the research project ‘Public International Law Standards for Governance in Weak and Failing States’ within the Research Centre ‘Governance in Areas of Limited Statehood’. Her research focuses on human rights and legal principles in state structures under public international law, European law and German constitutional law, as well as from a comparative law perspective.
Dr Iyiola Solanke
Iyiola Solanke is a Senior Lecturer in Law at the University of Leeds and Visiting Professor at Wake Forest University Law School, USA. She lectures on European Union Law and Anti-Discrimination Law. She is an Academic Fellow of the Inner Temple and was previously a Research Fellow at the European Institute, LSE and Jean Monnet Fellow at the University of Michigan Law School. She has published on judicial independence and diversity, intersectionality and race relations in Britain and Germany. Her monograph, The Evolution of Anti-Racial Discrimination Law, a socio-legal comparison between the emergence of these laws in Britain, Germany and the EU, was published by Routledge in 2011 (paperback). She holds a PhD in Law from the London School of Economics.
Information about the organisations hosting the event
The Dickson Poon School of Law, King’s College London
The Dickson Poon School of Law ranks 4th amongst UK law schools and 18th overall amongst law schools worldwide in the2012 QS World University Rankings by Subject. Internationally renowned and research-led, it has consistently scored amongst the highest student satisfaction ratings in the National Student Survey for Law within the Russell group of top 20 British universities since 2005.
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Equality and Diversity Forum
The Equality and Diversity Forum (EDF) is a network of national organisations committed to equal opportunities, social justice, good community relations, respect for human rights and an end to discrimination based on age, disability, gender and gender identity, race, religion or belief, and sexual orientation.
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Equality and Diversity Forum Research Network
The Equality and Diversity Forum (EDF) Research Network is a multi-disciplinary equality and human rights network bringing together academics, policy makers, NGOs and funders to inform and improve UK policy and legislation.
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