Today at McGill Law: Day Two of Tax Justice and Human Rights Research Collaboration Symposium #TJHR

The conversation among students, academic researchers, and tax justice advocates and activists on the topic of tax justice and human rights continues at McGill today. You can follow the proceedings and make comments on twitter at #TJHR. Program and speaker info here.

Here is the day's lineup:

Time	Topic		Location
08:30 – 09:00	Registration & Arrival Tea/Coffee		Atrium
09:00 – 09:15	Welcome remarks: Allison Christians (Stikeman Chair in Tax Law, McGill Faculty of Law); Dennis Howlett (Executive Director, Canadians for Tax Fairness); John Christensen (Director, Tax Justice Network); and Jean Symes (Program and Policy Analyst, Inter Pares)		Moot Court (room 100)
09:15 – 10:00	1. Setting the Stage William Stephenson (Editor in Chief, McGill Law Journal), Moderator - Kim Brooks (Dean and Weldon Professor of Law at the Schulich School of Law at Dalhouse University), Why Justice Matters for Tax Policy - Ignacio Saiz (Executive Director, Center for Human Rights in Economic Policy), The Evolving Norms and Standards of Human Rights - Allison Christians (Stikeman Chair in Tax, McGill Faculty of Law), Who Has Rights, What Rights, and Against Whom?		Moot Court (room 100)
10:00 – 11:15	2. Human Rights and Tax Justice Reports Aldo Caliari (Director, Rethinking Bretton Woods Project), Moderator - Lloyd Lipsett (President and Rapporteur, International Bar Association Task Force on Illicit Financial Flows, Poverty and Human Rights): IBA Human Rights Institute Task Force on Illicit Financial Flows, Poverty and Human Rights Report - Kate Donald (Adviser to the UN Special Rapporteur on Extreme Poverty and Human Rights), UNHRC Report - Adrienne Margolis (Founder and Editor, Lawyers 4 Better Business), L4BB Report David Quentin (Senior Adviser, Tax Justice Network), and Shirley Pouget(Senior Program Lawyer, Int. Bar Assoc. Human Rights Institute), discussants		Moot Court (room 100)
11:15 – 11:30	Refreshment Break		Atrium
11:30 – 12:45	3. Gender and Fiscal Justice Liz Nelson (Partnership Development and Resources Coordinator, Tax Justice Network), Moderator - Annick Provencher (Professor, Faculty of Law, Université de Montréal),From the Invisible Hand to the Invisible Woman - Rhys Kesselman (Professor, School of Public Policy, Simon Fraser University), Income Splitting and Alternatives for Family Tax Cuts in Canada - Kathleen Lahey (Professor, Queen's University Law School), Sex Equality and Tax Justice: Gender Impact of Tax, Benefit, and Other Fiscal Policies Kate Donald (Adviser to the UN Special Rapporteur on Extreme Poverty and Human Rights), Attiya Waris (Senior Lectrurer, Faculty of Law, Univ. of Nairobi), discussants		Moot Court (room 100)
12:45 – 14:15	Lunch, Keynote Speaker Thomas Pogge (Leitner Professor of Philosophy and International Affairs, Yale University) VIA SKYPE		Thomson House
14:15 – 15:45	4. Fiscal Justice: Regional Challenges and Initiatives May Hen (Master's candidate, Simon Fraser University), Moderator - Savior Mwambwa (Policy and Advocacy Manager, Tax Justice Network - Africa), The Reform of the Global Tax System: Keys Issues and Lessons from Africa - André Mendes Moreira (Associate Professor of Tax Law - Federal University of Minas Gerais), Indirect Taxes and Tax Justice - Misabel Machado Derzi (Professor of Tax Law, the Federal University of Minas Gerais), Guerre fiscale, Bourse Famille et Silence - Renaud Fossard (Latindad), Latin American Countries: Local Issues and International Influences Lyne Latulippe (Professor, University of Sherbrooke), John Christensen (Director, Tax Justice Network), discussants		Moot Court (room 100)
16:45 – 16:00	Refreshment Break		Atrium
16:00 – 17:30	5. Reducing Inequality: International Corporate Tax Reform Jo Marie Griesgraber (Executive Director, New Rules for Global Finance Coalition), Moderator - Erika Siu (Tax Research Consultant, International Centre for Taxation and Development), BEPS Monitoring Group Activities: An Update - Michael Knoll (Theodore K. Warner Professor of Law, University of Pennsylvania Law School), Competitive Neutrality and the EU Model - Lee Sheppard (Journalist, Tax Analysts), OECD Initiative on BEPS - Robert Fox (Executive Director, Oxfam Canada), Business Among Friends: Why corporate tax dodgers are not yet losing sleep over global tax reform  Samuel Singer (Associate, Stikeman Elliott), discussant		Moot Court (room 100)
17:30 – 17:45	Announcements		Moot Court (room 100)
17:45 – 18:30	Refreshment Break: Atrium	Breakout Session: IBAHRI Update on Tax and the Millennium Development Goals, Moot Court (room 100)