What’s the Point of International Human Rights Law?
At a time when the rules based international legal order seems to be imploding, it feels like it has never been more urgent to support international human rights law. But in order to defend human rights law, we must first understand why it was created in the first place. What is it that one is defending and why?
Join us to hear Prof. Frédéric Mégret in discussion with Prof. Máximo Langer. Prof. Mégret will shed light, not only on why the international human rights system emerged, but also on why we may want to continue investing in it despite all of its frailties. What might international human rights law achieve, in particular, that well developed cultures of constitutional guarantees of rights cannot achieve just as well? Prof. Mégret aims to problematize why we would want to guarantee human rights internationally, given some of the obvious limitations of doing so.
- Prof. Frédéric Mégret
- James S. Carpentier Visiting Professor of Law at Columbia Law School, Hans & Tamar Oppenheimer Chair in Public International Law and Professor of Law at McGill Faculty of Law, senior fellow at the University of Melbourne, and Visiting Professor at Sciences Po Paris
- Prof. Máximo Langer
- David G. Price and Dallas P. Price Chair, Professor of Law and Director of the UCLA Transnational Program on Criminal Justice at UCLA School of Law