Constitutionalizing Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights
This event is part of the UN Human Rights’s Hernan Santa Cruz Dialogues Series on Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights and hosted by Northeastern University Program on Human Rights and the Global Economy and the Human Rights Center at the University of Minnesota Law School.
Join us on Friday, November 10:
12:00-1:30 pm CST (Minnesota)
1:00-2:30 pm EST (Boston)
19:00-20:30 CET (Geneva)
This conversation will explore the various ways in which Economic, Social and Cultural (ESC) rights are (or are not) embedded in national or subnational constitutions. Speakers will share experiences with constitutional drafting as well as thoughts about constitutional construction, and the role of international human rights law in those processes. An overarching focus will be on the impacts of constitutionalizing ESC rights.
The event will feature invited experts:
Katie Boyle, Professor of Human Rights Law and Social Justice at the University of Strathclyde and constitutional lawyer with the Government Legal Service for Scotland.
Denisse Córdova Montes, Acting Associate Director in the Human Rights Clinic at the University of Miami School of Law.
Jacqueline Dugard, Senior Lecturer in the discipline of Human Rights and Political Science at the Institute for the Study of Human Rights and the Department of Political Science, Columbia University.
Domingo Lovera-Parmo, Associate Professor of law at Universidad Diego Portales in Santiago, Chile.
The panel will be moderated by Martha Davis, Northeastern University Distinguished Professor of Law, and Amanda Lyons, Executive Director, Human Rights Center at University of Minnesota Law School.