Highlights
The Centre for Legal Theory (CLT) is pleased to welcome Professor Shazia Choudhry to be our speaker for the Singapore Symposium in Legal Theory (SSLT). Professor Choudhry conducted a seminar on 11 March 2024, followed by a Roundtable discussion on her paper, “When Women’s Rights are Not Human Rights – the Non- Performativity of the Human Rights of Victims of Domestic Abuse within English Family Law” on 12 March 2024.
CLT Co-Director, Professor Andrew Halpin presented his paper on, 'Analytical, Normative, Aspirational: Connecting and Disconnecting Theoretical Approaches to Rights' at the first Meeting on Basic Legal Positions organised by the Research Forum on Basic Legal Positions- a joint venture formed by the CLT and the Lisbon Legal Theory from the University of Lisbon.
Professor Andrew Halpin's paper looked at the conundrum faced when we seek a fuller understanding of individual liberty. The evident advantages of a single individual possessing liberty cannot be simply transferred to a greater number of beneficiaries, and the conclusion that in order to extend the advantages of individual liberty to all, something other than liberty is required.
