2026 Conference: Human Rights and the Crisis of World Order
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We’ll be hosting our 2026 Conference on January 23, 2026 at UCLA School of Law. Details to follow; be sure you’re subscribed to our newsletter to receive information about this and our other upcoming programming.
The world today is on an accelerated path of rising authoritarianism, increased armed conflict, widening inequality, and environmental distress. This time of crisis has strained relations between people and nations and contributed to the decline of human rights.
Featuring a keynote from Dr. Albert Barume, UN Special Rapporteur on the rights of Indigenous Peoples, this conference seeks to engage the current structural forces shaping world order in this moment and critically explore human rights as a moral, legal and political concept for ordering humanity. Where does the human rights project stand in relation to the struggle for universal dignity and equality? What is the role of legal frameworks and international institutions in ordering the world toward these values? What does building a more just future require? What gives us reason for hope?