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Human Rights in Practice: The Right to Housing and Corporate Responsibility

Duke Law School, Room 4047

Join us for a discussion on business and human rights with Dr. Surya Deva. In this talk, Professor Deva will discuss the duty of states as well as the responsibility of corporations in relation to the right to housing in the context of privatization and financialization of housing.  He will draw on the relevant international […]

Human Rights in Practice—Book Talk—“A Woman’s Place: US Counterterrorism Since 9/11” with Dr. Joana Cook

Duke Law School, Room 4042

Dr. Joana Cook Senior Research Fellow, International Centre for the Study of Radicalisation, & Research Associate, Department of War Studies, King’s College London Friday, February 7 12:30 pm | Room 4042 Duke Law School Lunch will be served The 9/11 attacks fundamentally transformed how the US approached terrorism, and led to the unprecedented expansion of […]

Human Rights in Practice — Law and Social Movements: The Turn to Law Reform and Policy Platforms in Today’s Left

Duke Law School, Room 3037

Thursday, February 20, 2020 12:30 p.m. | Law Room 3037 From the Green New Deal to the Vision for Black Lives, today’s left social movements are turning to law reform as a way to reimagine our relationships to each other, the state, and the commons. Professor Amna Akbar, Professor of Law, The Ohio State University […]

International Aspects of the Black Lives Matter Movement

Zoom

Join a panel discussion of the international reach of the Black Lives Matter movement including: Rym Khadhraoui, Amnesty International; Dominique Day, Chairperson, U.N. Working Group of Experts on People of African Descent, and Founder and Director of the DAYLIGHT Collective; moderated by Jayne Huckerby, Clinical Professor of Law, and Director, Duke Law International Human Rights […]

Digital rights and discrimination

Zoom

This event is part of the Duke Law Human Rights in Practice series organized by the Center for International and Comparative Law and the International Human Rights Clinic. More information to come. For additional information, please contact Balfour Smith at bsmith@law.duke.edu.

Health Care and Prisons and COVID-19

Zoom

This event is part of the Duke Law Human Rights in Practice series organized by the Center for International and Comparative Law and the International Human Rights Clinic. More information to come. For additional information, please contact Balfour Smith at bsmith@law.duke.edu.