I've just come across an interesting series of essays on the Guardian website: 'Deconstructing rights' by Costas Douzinas, Professor of Law at Birkbeck College:
"Are human rights a barrier against domination and oppression or the ideological gloss of an emerging empire? Law professor Costas Douzinas traces the history and theory of rights, probing the paradoxes they offer in contemporary debates, including the questions of universalism, humanitarianism and individual versus collective rights."
University of York Political Philosophy
Postgraduate Conference
29-30
May 2009
Legal, Political and Moral Rights: What are the Limits?
Plenary Speakers:
Professor Attracta Ingram (UCD)
Professor Simon Caney (Oxford)
In legal, political and moral spheres rights serve as a justification for actions and institutions. In each of these spheres, to claim the existence of a right is to claim the existence of something that we should value and respect. Rights, consequently, shape theway we conceive our relationships with others, the way we build our institutions and also the manner we direct our own lives. However, what are the limits, if any, of what we call rights? This question becomes especially relevant when we notice the emergence of an extraordinary number of right-claims in increasingly diverse forms: rights to silence, rights to disobey, rights not to be punished, rights to be punished, rights to life, rights to die, rights to be left alone, and so on.
The York Political Philosophy Conference 2009 invites research students in Politics, Law and Philosophy to present papers on rights and their limits.
Each paper will have a discussant and will be followed by an open floor discussion.
The deadline for abstract submission (400 words) is the 1st of March (please refer to the guidelines in the website).
The Conference Fee (including lunches and conference dinner is £30)
For further details please visit:
http://yorkpoliticalphilosophy2009.googlepages.com/home
Or e-mail: ad546@york.ac.uk
Call for Papers
Societies Without Borders
Human Rights & the Social Sciences
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Societies Without Borders is an official tri-annual journal of Sociologists Without Borders, published by Brill. What the world's peoples have in common - not withstanding the borders that divide them - is the aspiration to achieve human rights - the rights to food, housing, health care, education, decent work, free speech, to speak one's conscience, as well as the right to a fair trial, to a safe environment, and the right to peace. What the world's people are beginning to discover is that this aspiration is not only a common one, but it can only be pursued collectively in disregard of the borders that divide people. People may live in societies, derive their identities from their societies, but the pursuit of human rights is pursued and coordinated across borders. The journal, Societies without Borders, aims for high caliber scholarly analysis and also encourages submissions that address pioneering thought in human rights, globalism, and collective goods.
Authors are cordially invited to submit articles to the journal editors Judith Blau and Alberto Moncada, and books for review to the Associate Editor Keri Iyall Smith.
From Public Reason...
Human Rights in Theory and Practice
The Universal Declaration of Human Rights was adopted by the United Nations in 1948, and in recognition of the UDHR’s 60th anniversary, the Institute for Law and Philosophy will host a one-day conference featuring panels on a range of philosophical and legal aspects of human rights. Committed participants include Charles Beitz (Princeton), Allen Buchanan (Duke), Roger Clark (Rutgers-Camden), James Nickel (Arizona State), Thomas Pogge (Yale), and Joseph Raz (Columbia/Oxford), with ther additions still to come. Details to follow.
Registration is required, and there is a registration fee of $25 ($10 for students). To rgister, please e-mail and send a check, payable to Rutgers University, to: John Oberdiek, Rutgers University School of Law-Camden, 217 North 5th Street, Camden, NJ 08102.
Oxford are hosting a one-day conference on the work of Henry Shue, details below...
'Ethics and International Affairs: Rights, Climate Change and War - Themes from the Work of Professor Henry Shue'
1 July 2008
The Department of Politics and International Relations, Oxford, is hosting a one day conference to celebrate the work of Professor Henry Shue.
The conference will be held in Seminar Room G, Manor Road Building, Manor Road, Oxford.
9.30-10.00 Welcome
10.00-11.15 Charles Beitz (Princeton) 'Henry Shue on Basic Rights' (provisional title)
11.15- 11.45 Coffee
11.45-12.45 John Tasioulas (Oxford) 'Deontic Pluralism and Cultural Dialogue: two Themes in Shue's Theory of Rights'
12.45-13.45 lunch
13.45-15.00 Simon Caney (Oxford) 'Human Rights, Responsibilities and Henry Shue's Analysis of Climate Change'
15.00-15.30 coffee
15.30-16.45 David Rodin (Oxford) 'Henry Shue's Ethics of War'
16.50-18.05 Tony Coady (Melbourne) 'Shue on War'
18.05 Closing Remarks and Reception
*Please note*: Attendance is free but places are limited and attendees must register. To register please visit http://www.politics.ox.ac.uk/research/conferences/
*Further information: *http://www.politics.ox.ac.uk/contact.asp?m=staff&ref=340
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