Human Rights Protection Mechanism Seminars - II

The Faculty of Law at Özyeğin University organizes the second edition of its seminar series "Empowering Lawyers, Trainee Lawyers, and Faculty of Law Students on the Mechanism for the Protection of Human Rights" on Saturday, January 22, from 10:30 through 16:00. The seminar series are intended to provide legal professionals aspiring to work especially in the field of Human Rights with a solid foundation on the Individual Application Procedure. The program is developed to offer a series of seminars spanning a year with the contributions experts in human rights law, moderators, and academicians.

At the end of the program, participants will be awarded certificates of attendance as well as training materials.

Program

10.30 - 11.00: Opening Address
Prof. Dr. DR. h. c. YENER ÜNVER (Dean of the Faculty of Law at Özyeğin University)

11.00 - 12.00: Right to a Fair Trial in Criminal Proceedings
Associate Prof. Fahri Gökçen Taner (Department of Criminal and Criminal Procedure Law at Ankara University)

12.00 - 13.00: Right to Life with its Different Aspects    
Associate Prof. Ali Ersoy Kontacı (Department of Constitutional Law at Ankara University)

13.00 - 13.20: Coffee Break

13.20 - 14.20: Human Rights and Equality Institution of Turkey As a National Protection Mechanism
Prof. Dr. Muharrem Kılıç (TİHEK Chairman)

14.20 - 15.10: Enforceability of the Judgements of the European Court of Human Rights
B. Ayşegül Tansen, Attorney at Law (Foreign Relations Center at Istanbul Bar Association)

15.10 - 16.00: INTRODUCTION OF THE HELP COURSE PROGRAM AND CLOSING