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11th Annual Conference of the Berkeley Center on Comparative Equality and Anti-Discrimination | July 26-28, 2024

Where:

NLSIU Campus

When:

Friday, July 26, 2024

The 3-day conference will conclude on July 28, 2024.

The National Law School of India University and the Oxford Human Rights Hub are jointly organizing the 11th Annual Conference of the Berkeley Center on Comparative Equality and Anti-Discrimination at the NLSIU campus in Bengaluru from July 26-28, 2024.

The theme of the conference is: Is there Hope for Equality Law?

The conference will feature 33 panels with over 125 participants from over 10 countries on a diverse range of topics around this theme including equality law in the digital age; crime violence and policing; class, poverty, and economic equality; and climate change and equality, amongst others.

The Chief Justice of India and Chancellor of NLSIU, Hon’ble Dr. Justice Dhananjaya Y. Chandrachud will deliver the keynote address.

The conference in Bengaluru builds upon the past success of BCCE’s annual conference which in the past has been held at:

  • Paris (Sciences-Po 2012)
  • California (Berkeley Law 2013)
  • Brussels (Université Libre de Bruxelles 2014)
  • Shanghai (Jiao Tong University 2016)
  • Dublin (Trinity College 2017)
  • Melbourne (Melbourne Law School 2018)
  • Stockholm (University of Stockholm 2019)
  • Cape Town (University of Cape Town 2021)
  • Hong Kong (University of Hong Kong 2022)
  • Netherlands (Utrecht University 2023).

The schedule of the conference for July 2024 is available here.

Note: This event is not open to the public.