Across three panel sessions, we examine the social and political importance of assembly; its status as a legally-protected right at the national and international levels; and the boundaries of its legitimate regulation in practice.

Panel 1: The Power and Politics of Assembly
Panel 2: Claiming the Right of Peaceful Assembly
Panel 3: Between Protection and Control: State Interventions and Assembly
Speakers include:

Agnès Callamard, Secretary General, Amnesty International
Gina Romero, United Nations Special Rapporteur on the Rights to Freedom of Peaceful Assembly and of Association
Professor Greg Magarian, Professor of Law, Washington University School of Law
Professor David Mead, Senior lecturer in the Law School, University of East Anglia
Dr Kirsty Hughes, Associate Professor in Public Law, University of Cambridge
Dr Orsolya Salat, Associate Professor, ELTE University Budapest
Professor Pete Fussey, Professor of Criminology, University of Southampton
Dr Hélène Tigroudja, Member of the United Nations Human Rights Committee
Dr Illan Wall, University of Galway
Dr Charmian Werren, Lecturer in Criminology, University of East Anglia