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Professor Alan Miller

Professor of Practice in Human Rights Law
Strathclyde University

Alan is Professor of Practice in Human Rights Law at the University of Strathclyde, senior consultant with the UN Crisis Bureau, lead adviser to the Scottish Government on the Human Rights Bill and Chair of the National Collaborative on Drugs Deaths.

He has previously served between 2016-19 as a Special Envoy with the UN and was appointed in 2019 by the then First Minister, Nicola Sturgeon, as the Independent Co-Chair of the National Taskforce for Human Rights Leadership whose recommendations are shaping the forthcoming Human Rights Bill which will incorporate a range of UN human rights treaties.

Alan is also a former practitioner and a Past President of the Glasgow Bar Association in 1999/2000. He left practice when he was elected in 2007 by the Scottish Parliament as the inaugural Chair of the Scottish Human Rights Commission and was subsequently elected in 2013 as inaugural Chair of the European Network of National Human Rights Institutions.

CPD & Training with Alan Miller:

Annual Conference Day 4 2023 On-demand

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Watch our keynote presentations and expert speakers present on topics including The Rule of Law, Trauma-aware law and Female leaders and why we need them and sub-plenary sessions on AML, Financial Compliance, Risk Management, Business Development, Financial Management and Legal Technology.
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