Symposium: Human Rights, Democracy, and Legitimacy

Symposium: Human Rights, Democracy, and Legitimacy

<p> Symposium: Human Rights, Democracy, and Legitimacy in the 21st Century</p><p>Harvard Law School Wasserstein Hall Milstein East</p><p>May 3, 2016 (9.00 am) Introduction </p><p>Part 1: The Assessment of Basic Concepts in a World of Disorder Moderator: Kathryn Sikkink (HKS), Ryan Family Professor of Human Rights Policy, HKS; Carol K. Pforzheimer Professor, Radcliffe; Carr Center for Human Rights Policy I. Gerald Neuman (HLS), Co-Director, Human Rights Program; J. Sinclair Armstrong Professor of International, Foreign, and Comparative Law: Human Rights, Treaties, and International Legitimacy</p><p>II. Samuel Moyn (HLS), Professor of Law and History: Human Rights and the Age of Inequality Discussion </p><p>(10.30 am) Moderator: Gerald Neuman (HLS) III. Frank Michelman (HLS), Robert Walmsley University Professor, Emeritus: Human Rights and Constitutional Essentials</p><p>IV. Richard Fallon (HLS), Ralph S. Tyler, Jr. Professor of Constitutional Law: Legitimacy and Judicial Authority </p><p>Discussion </p><p>(11.45 am) Lunch Break</p><p>(12.30 pm) Moderator: Richard Fallon (HLS) 1 V. Cass Sunstein (HLS), Robert Walmsley University Professor: Fifty shades of Manipulation</p><p>Discussion (1.15 pm) Moderator: Samuel Moyn (HLS) VI. Sheila Jasanoff (HKS), Pforzheimer Professor of Science and Technology Studies, Director, Program on Science, Technology and Society Harvard Kennedy School: Science, Subsidiarity, and the Political Subject</p><p>VII. Jonathan Zittrain (HLS), George Bemis Professor of International Law; Vice Dean for Library and Information Resources; Faculty Director, Berkman Center for Internet and Society; Professor of Computer Science, Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences; Professor, Harvard John F. Kennedy School of Government: Algorithmic Accountability</p><p>Discussion</p><p>(2.30 pm) Coffee Break</p><p>(3.00 pm) Moderator: Silja Vöneky (Freiburg University) VIII. Wilfried Hinsch (Cologne University) Professor of Philosophy: In Quest of Legitimacy </p><p>IX. Mathias Risse (HKS), Professor of Philosophy and Public Policy; Carr Center for Human Rights Policy: Human Rights as Membership Rights in the Global Order Discussion</p><p>(4.15 pm)</p><p>Moderator: Mathias Risse (HKS)</p><p>X. Thomas Scanlon (Harvard University), Alford Professor of Natural Religion, Moral Philosophy, and Civil Polity: Tolerance and Immigration </p><p>XI. Norman Daniels (HSPH), Mary B. Saltonstall Professor of Population Ethics and Professor of Ethics and Population Health: Immigration and Access to Health Care </p><p>Discussion</p><p>2 (5.30 pm) Reception</p><p>(6.15 pm - 8.00 pm) Dinner (for speakers and moderators)</p><p>3 May 4, 2016 (9.00 am) Part 2: Solutions for a World in Disorder? Panel 1: New Actors, New Risks, New Legitimacy? Moderator: Gerald Neuman (HLS)</p><p>I. Tyler Giannini (HLS), Co-Director of the Human Rights Program, Co-Director of its International Human Rights Clinic, Clinical Professor of Law: Private Actors and their Human Rights Obligations </p><p>II. Silja Vöneky (Freiburg University) Professor of Public International Law, Comparative Law and Ethics of Law, Visiting Fellow HLS, Human Rights Program: Legitimate Governance of Existential Risks </p><p>Discussion </p><p>(10.15 am)</p><p>Panel 2: Challenges of Global Health Law Moderator: Tyler Giannini (HLS) III. Alicia Ely Yamin (HSPH), Lecturer on Law and Global Health: The Potential and Limitations of Addressing Health Inequities through Courts </p><p>IV. Glenn Cohen (HLS), Professor of Law, Faculty Director, Petrie-Flom Center for Health Law Policy, Biotechnology & Bioethics: Identified versus Statistical Lives</p><p>Discussion</p><p>(11.30 am) Lunch Break</p><p>(12.00 pm) Panel 3: EU-Law, Human Rights, and Immigration Moderator: Silja Vöneky (Freiburg University) V. Vlad Perju (Boston College) Associate Professor of Law; Director, Clough Center for the Study of Constitutional Democracy: Fundamental Rights and the Deradicalization of European Legal Integration 4 VI. Iris Goldner Lang (Zagreb University), John Harvey Gregory Lecturer on World Organization, Visiting Scholar HLS: Do Refugees Have Fewer Human Rights in Case of a Mass Influx? A European Perspective</p><p>Discussion</p><p>(Closing 1.15 pm)</p><p>5</p>

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