Speaker- Margaret Ann Bedggood

Margaret Bedggood is a Honorary Professor of Law at the University of Waikato, where she was Dean of the Law School from 1994 to 1999. She received her MA from University College, London in 1964 and LLB from University of Otago, New Zealand in 1978. At the same year, she was admitted as a Barrister and Solicitor of the High Court of NZ (then NZ's highest court)

For five years (1989 - 1994) she was the Chief Commissioner of the New Zealand Human Rights Commission. During this period the Human Rights Act 1993 was enacted which substantially increased the grounds on which discrimination is unlawful in New Zealand and expanded the role of the Commission in its advisory role on all rights including economic, social and cultural rights. It was also in this period that the coordinating committee for national institutions was established, following the drafting of the “Paris Principles” in 1991. She was a founding member of that coordinating committee.

She has been a member of Amnesty International since 1968, was previously Chair of the New Zealand section and was a member of its governing body the nine person International Executive Committee form 1999 to 2005.
    She has taught law and classics in a variety of institutions and jurisdictions and has published in tort, employment law and human rights. Margaret has been an assistant director of the Te Matahauariki research institute working on a project entitled Laws and Institutions for Aotearoa/New Zealand.
She was a member of the Refugee Council, and has a long-standing interest in social justice issues within the Anglican Church, as a member of the Third Order of the Society of Saint Francis.
    She is currently a member and was the Chairperson of the Management Committee of the Human Rights Foundation of Aotearoa New Zealand, a non-governmental organization, whose purpose is to provide a non-governmental partner to the New Zealand Human Rights Commission across the whole range of human rights, and to provide research, training, education and advocacy.

Her current research interests are in exploring the intersection between human rights theory and practice and religion and theology; and in the area of economic, social and cultural rights.

國籍：紐西蘭


現職：
紐西蘭懷卡托大學法律學榮譽教授
牛津大學克勞格學院訪問學者，2006-迄今


學歷：
紐西蘭奧克蘭大學神學博士，2006-迄今
紐西蘭奧塔哥大學法學學士，1973-1978
倫敦大學學院碩士，1962-1964
紐西蘭Auckland Teachers College，1961
紐西蘭奧克蘭大學，拉丁文榮譽碩士，1957-1960
紐西蘭St. Cuthberts College，1952-1956


獲獎記錄：
QSO for Public Service，1993
NZ Suffrage Year Centennial Medal，1993
Fullbright Travel Award–Visiting Scholar, University of Michigan Law School ，1987–88
Visiting Scholar, St. Johns College, Oxford (April–August 1987)
University National Scholarship，1956


學術經歷：
Faculty Member, M.St Programme in International Human Rights Law, Oxford University Continuing Education Dept. 2003–2009
Tutor, Theology Programme, Oxford University Continuing Education Dept. 2003, 2005, 2007, 2008.
(Summer) Faculty Member, International Human Rights Programme, George Washington Law School and Oxford University Continuing Education Department, 2000,2001, 2002, 2004
Professor of Law, University of Waikato, Hamilton. 1999–2003
Dean of Law, University of Waikato, Hamilton, New Zealand. 1994–1999
Chief Commissioner and Chair of the NZ Human Rights Commission.1989–1994
Senior Lecturer in Law, University of Otago. 1986–1989
Lecturer in Law, University of Otago. 1979–1985
Part-time Law Clerk, Sinclair Gibson & Co, Dunedin. 1977–1978
Part-time Lecturer, Classics, Victoria University of Wellington. 1967–1969
Tutor, Beechlawn Tutorial College, Oxford. 1964-1967
Tutor, Westminster Tutors, London. 1963-1965
Junior Lecturer in Classics, University of Auckland. 1962


其它經歷：
Union Membership Exemption Tribunal, Deputy Presiding Officer, 1988–1990
Trustbank Otago, Director, 1988–89
Research Centre for Industrial Relations and Labour Studies, Dunedin, 1986–1989
New Zealand Federation of University Women 1970–present–Committee, 1973–74
Otago Women Lawyers Society, 1986–89
International Advisory Board, World Report on Freedom of Conscience, Religion and Belief (University of Essex)
Founding member of the Co-ordinating Committee (8 members) for the developing network of national institutions for the promotion and protection of human rights, 1991–1994
Film and Literature Board of Review, 1995–2001
Board of Legal Education, Fiji 1998–99