{"id":4469,"date":"2014-08-20T21:45:53","date_gmt":"2014-08-20T21:45:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lawfoundation.org.nz\/?p=4469"},"modified":"2014-08-20T21:52:13","modified_gmt":"2014-08-20T21:52:13","slug":"view-professor-helen-alvare%e2%80%99s-lecture-%e2%80%9cwhen-freedoms-collide%e2%80%9d-2014-sir-john-graham-lecture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lawfoundation.org.nz\/?p=4469","title":{"rendered":"*View Professor Helen Alvar\u00e9&#8217;s Lecture &#8220;When Freedoms Collide&#8221; &#8211; 2014 Sir John Graham Lecture"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Professor Helen Alvar\u00e9 from the George Mason School of Law in Virginia USA was the 2014 presenter of the Maxim Institute&#8217;s <strong><em>Sir John Graham Lecture<\/em><\/strong>, which was funded by the Law Foundation.  Her lecture &#8220;When Freedoms Collide&#8221;<strong> <\/strong>was delivered to an audience of about 250 on 31<sup>st<\/sup> July at the Heritage Auckland.<\/p>\n<p>Professor Alvar\u00e9 is one of many <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lawfoundation.org.nz\/?p=3846\">international speakers the Law Foundation is bringing to NZ this year<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;When Freedoms Collide&#8221; is about the fundamental right to freedom of conscience and belief. Professor Alvar\u00e9 considers competing views of freedom that arise; such as whether a pacifist should be forced to go to war and whether euthanasia should be legalised. She initiates discussion on how we maintain a society that is both safe and open to all.<br \/>\n<\/br><\/p>\n<h5><a href=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\/103229572\">&#8220;When Freedoms Collide&#8221; is now available on Vimeo courtesy of the Maxim Institute.<\/a><\/h5>\n<h5><a href=\"http:\/\/www.law.gmu.edu\/faculty\/directory\/fulltime\/alvare_helen\">About Professor Helen Alvar\u00e9<\/a><\/h5>\n<p>Professor Alvar\u00e9 has decades of experience as a lawyer, academic, legal consultant and media spokesperson in the area of freedom of conscience.<\/p>\n<h4>The Law Foundation contributed $5,000 to bring Professor Alvar\u00e9 to NZ for this lecture<\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Professor Helen Alvar\u00e9 from the George Mason School of Law in Virginia USA was the 2014 presenter of the Maxim Institute&#8217;s Sir John Graham Lecture, which was funded by the Law Foundation. Her lecture &#8220;When Freedoms Collide&#8221; was delivered to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/lawfoundation.org.nz\/?p=4469\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":603,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4469","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lawfoundation.org.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4469","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lawfoundation.org.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lawfoundation.org.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lawfoundation.org.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/603"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lawfoundation.org.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4469"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/lawfoundation.org.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4469\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4479,"href":"https:\/\/lawfoundation.org.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4469\/revisions\/4479"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lawfoundation.org.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4469"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lawfoundation.org.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4469"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lawfoundation.org.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4469"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}