Professor David Kinley to Deliver Inaugural Annual Chronos Human Rights Lecture
We are delighted to announce that the Inaugural Annual Chronos Human Rights Lecture will be delivered by Professor David Kinley, Chair in Human Rights Law at the University of Sydney Law School.
David's expertise is in human rights and the global economy, focusing on the roles and responsibilities of corporations and states. He has worked for 25 years as an adviser on international and domestic human rights law in China, Vietnam, Indonesia, South Africa, Bangladesh, Thailand, Iraq, Nepal, Laos, the Pacific Islands, and Myanmar. His recent publications include Civilising Globalisation: Human Rights and the Global Economy (CUP, 2009), Principled Engagement: Promoting Human Rights in Repressive States(Edward Elgar, 2013, with Morten Pedersen), and Necessary Evil: How to Fix Finance by Saving Human Rights (OUP, 2018).
His new book is In a Rain of Dust: Death, Deceit, and the Lawyer who Busted Big Asbestos (JHUP, 2025) which narrates the extraordinary story behind the iconic House of Lords’ case of Lubbe v Cape Plc in 2000 on corporate liability for asbestos poisoning of thousands of South African asbestos miners, their families, and the communities they lived in.
The lecture will be delivered in the Nobel Rooms at The Conduit Club in Covent Garden on the afternoon of Monday 16 June 2025.
