Event overview
2024 Goldsmiths Law Annual Human Rights Symposium & Lecture with Prof Conor Gearty, 17 May 2024
This hybrid symposium aims to gather academic experts to explore contemporary challenges to social and economic or labour rights. It will be followed by a keynote lecture on ‘Social Rights and Political Rights: The False Divide' by the distinguished scholar, Professor Conor Gearty.
Socioeconomic rights have gained a degree of prominence in recent decades. There has been a rise in their constitutional entrenchment and in the recognition of their justiciable nature, prompted to an extent by the adoption of an individual complaints mechanism for the rights in the ICESCR in 2008.
While these developments provide some cause for optimism, there is still much cause for concern. The economic crisis of 2008 and the introduction of austerity measures, the Covid-19 pandemic and the recent cost-of-living crisis, as well as international conflict, terrorism and the new waves of authoritarianism, have led to a retrogression in the enjoyment of socioeconomic rights.
At this symposium, academic experts will identify and analyse key challenges to our fundamental socioeconomic rights and explore the current state of these rights. They will also explore opportunities for further action and how international or domestic human rights law can effectively respond to those challenges.
The symposium will be followed by a keynote lecture on ‘Social Rights and Civil Liberties: A False Divide’ by the distinguished scholar, Professor Conor Gearty.
Keynote speaker
Prof Conor Gearty (LSE)
Distinguished speakers
Dr Koldo Casla (University of Essex)
Dr Meghan Campbell (University of Birmingham)
Dr Luke Graham (University of Manchester)
Clare James (University of Sheffield)
Dr Maria Tzanakopoulou (Birkbeck, University of London)
Dr Ricardo Matias Buendia Esteban (University of Manchester)
Dr Ioannis Katsaroumpas (University of Sussex)
Dates & times
| Date | Time | Add to calendar |
|---|---|---|
| 17 May 2024 | 10:30am - 5:30pm |
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