In this talk, Ted Te reflects on two challenges facing the practice of human rights law
law today: first, how new technologies impact on existing freedoms and second, how 9/11 changed our notions of terrorism and the appropriate responses to counter it.

TED TE is a human rights lawyer and law professor. He completed his law studies at the University of the Philippines in 1990, and, after graduating from law school and passing the bar, he immediately joined the Free Legal Assistance Group (FLAG), the nation's oldest human rights lawyers group as a volunteer lawyer. He became active in civil and political rights cases and, from 1995 until 2006, took on an advocacy—legal and political—against capital punishment in the Philippines. He was counsel for many death row convicts, including the first convict to be executed by lethal injection in 1998. He has witnessed two executions.

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