Day One: 25 August 2008

0930	Opening address by Vice-Dean and Chief Editor
0945	Session 1 begins: Anti Discriminatory Laws: Rationale, Objectives and Functioning - A Comparison of Indian and Brazilian Laws - Shruti Viswanathan, National Law School of India University
1000	Discussion
1030	Discrimination against Workers under the Special Economic Zones Act, 2005 - A Hindrance to India’s Development - Shatadru Chakraborty, NALSAR University of Law
1045	Discussion
1115	To Care or To Scare: Shielding of Child Witness and the Defendant’s Right to Confrontation - Raphael Kok Chi Ren, University of Malaya
1130	Discussion
1200	End of discussion Lunch begins
1430	Lunch ends, Session 2 starts Giving Life to the Right to Not Conceive: What the Law and Society in the Philippines Must Do for Its Women - Johanna Aleria P. Lorenzo, University of the Philippines
1445	Discussion
1515	Discrimination: Help or Hindrance? - Listening to the Battered Woman’s Silent Screams - Nik Sim Shi Qiang & Amardeep Singh, National University of Singapore
1530	Discussion
1600	Family Planning Policies and Resultant Discrimination against the Girl Child - A Study of India and China - Anjana Agarwal, National Law School of India University
1615	Discussion
1645	Discussion ends Closing statements for the day

Day Two: 26 August 2008

1000	Session 3 begins The Indigenous, the Imperial and the International: A Contextual Comparison of Laws Concerning the Ainu of Japan and Australian Aborigines - Emmi Okada, University of Sydney
1015	Discussion
1045	Religious Freedom as Freedom from Discrimination - James Little, University of Auckland
1100	Discussion
1130	Sexual Orientation & Genuine Occupational Requirements - Dhanda Jujhar, University of Glasgow
1145	Discussion
1215	Session 3 endsEnd of Symposium statements Lunch begins
1900	Closing Ceremony (GOH: VK Rajah JA)
2100	End of Ceremony/Symposium

Directions to the Moot Court (where all the sessions and closing ceremony will take place).