Previous Law and the Production of Inequality Events
Our public debates are increasingly centered on the question of socio-economic inequality – its increase, its economic and political consequences, its importance to the present and its likely future. Inequality may well be at the root of many of the human rights violations in the world today. Our Fall 2018 speaker series will explore the role of law (including, perhaps, human rights law) in the production of inequality, and the role of law (including, of course, human rights law) in responding to inequality. The Colloquium presents an interdisciplinary group of scholars who focus their investigations on the ways in which various legal regimes create, reinforce, and/or ameliorate patterns of structural inequality, locally and globally.
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Feminist Approaches to the Regulation of Sex Work: Patterns in Transnational Governance Feminist Law Making
Speaker:- Hila Shamir Associate Professor of Law, Tel-Aviv University
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Law and the Reproduction of Food Poverty
Speaker:- Tomaso Ferrando Lecturer in Law, University of Bristol
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Inequality and the Elite Origins of Democracy
Speaker:- Michael Albertus Associate Professor of Political Science, University of Chicago
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From Disparity to Dignity: Tackling Economic Inequality through Human Rights
Speaker:- Ignacio Saiz Executive Director, Center for Economic and Social Rights
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Trade, Distribution and Development under Supply Chain Capitalism
Speaker:- Dan Danielsen Professor of Law and Faculty Director, Program on the Corporation, Law and Global Society, Northeastern University