Conscientious Objection Workshop
‘HOW SHOULD A LIBERAL DEMOCRACY REACT TO CONSCIENTIOUS OBJECTION CLAIMS?’
Online event 11 February 2021 14:00-18.15 (Irish Time/GMT)
Registration is free but booking is essential. You can find the programme and details of registration on the RIA webpage.
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.
Panellists:
- Professor Maeve Cooke, MRIA, Chair, (opens in a new window)Ethical, Political, Legal and Philosophical Studies Committee
- (opens in a new window)Professor Kimberley Brownlee, The University of British Columbia
- (opens in a new window)Dr Katherine Furman, University of Liverpool
- (opens in a new window)Professor Ronan McCrea, University College London
- Dr Regina McQuillan, St Francis Hospice
- (opens in a new window)Advocate General Gerard Hogan, Court of Justice of the European Union
- (opens in a new window)Professor Linda Hogan, Trinity College Dublin
- (opens in a new window)Professor David Albert Jones, The Anscombe Bioethics Centre
- (opens in a new window)Professor David Novak, University of Toronto
- (opens in a new window)Professor Fiona de Londras, University of Birmingham
- Senator Michael McDowell SC
- (opens in a new window)Dr John Adentire, Queen Mary, University of London