Professor Nowak’s keynote address will include an overview of the five and a half years he has spent as U.N. Special Rapporteur. During that time he has issued 17 country reports, jointly authored a report on the global web of secret prisons and recently hit the headlines when he was detained and refused entry to Zimbabwe. Chairing the event and facilitating discussion will be Professor Nigel Rodley who was Special Rapporteur for eight years between 1993 and 2001. He is a member of the UN Human Rights Committee, founding head of the legal office at the International Secretariat at Amnesty International and currently chair of the esteemed Human Rights Centre at the University of Essex. Less