Speakers:           

 Colin Smith BL, Patricia Brazil BL and Louise Hooper, Barrister-at-Law, London

Colin Smith BL is a barrister specialising in international law. He lectures in international humanitarian law in Trinity College Dublin and has worked in Chambers at the Special Court for Sierra Leone in Freetown and in the War Crimes Division of the Office of the Prosecutor at the Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina in Sarajevo. He is Treasurer of the Irish Society of International Law and is a member of the Irish Red Cross International Working Group.

Patricia Brazil LL.B., M.Litt, Barrister-at-Law is the Averil Deverell Lecturer in Law at Trinity College Dublin where she teaches Refugee and Immigration Law, Family Law and Child Law. Patricia is a practising barrister specialising in asylum/immigration and child law.

Louise Hooper is a barrister at Garden Court Chambers in London with particular expertise in trafficking cases. She has worked on issues related to trafficking and trafficking policy at a national and international level with both the ODIHR and ATLeP (Anti Trafficking Legal Project). In 2011 she was engaged as a legal research consultant for ECPAT to produce country reports on child trafficking and conducted a fact-finding mission to Nigeria to investigate issues of human trafficking funded by ODIHR.

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