News and Events

2012| archive

PHRGE sponsors various events throughout the year. The main events include the annual ESCR Institute, the Valerie Gordon Human Rights Lecture, Faculty Colloquia, and Webinars.

ESCR Institute: Each year PHRGE hosts an institute on cutting edge economic, social and cultural rights issues, bringing together scholars and practitioners to debate such topics.

• 2010 Institute
• 2011 Institute 
• 2012 Institute

Valerie Gordon Lecture
In collaboration with the Black Law Students Association, PHRGE presents the annual Valerie Gordon Lecture given by a prominent human rights scholar or practitioner.

Faculty Colloquia
PHRGE organizes a faculty colloquia series bringing together human rights scholars from around New England and beyond.

Webinars
PHRGE delivers Webinars connecting scholars with practitioners on cutting-edge issues in ESCR.

06.18.12 Join PHRGE for a presention on human rights and development by Dr. Siobhán McInerney, Senior Policy Officer of Operations Policy & Country Services of the World Bank.

06.06.12 PHRGE and the Columbia Law School Human Rights Institute will co-sponsor a live web-streamed panel, "UN Guiding Principles for Business and Human Rights: What Lawyers Should Know," on ethics and domestic human rights lawyering. The panel will take place at Northeastern University School of Law. Please CLICK HERE TO REGISTER.

05.18.12 Professor Martha Davis, PHRGE Faculty Co-Director,  will speak to Boston-based lawyers and advocates on “The International Human Rights Framework: Opportunities for Attorneys and Social Justice Advocates” in a training program sponsored by the International Justice Resource Center.

05.16.12 Executive Director of PHRGE, Gillian MacNaughton, will present a lecture “Mainstreaming Human Rights into Impact Assessment,” as part of the University of Ottawa’s Videoconference Series on Human Rights Impact Assessment.

05.08.12 Suzanne Egan, Lecturer at the School of Law in University College Dublin and Visiting Fellow at the Harvard Law School, will discuss the current process of UN treaty body reform.

04.25.12 PHRGE will host a panel "Charter Schools and the Right to Education" that will explore the impact of the charter school movement on the right to education in the United States. The panel is part of a larger collaboration between the National Economic and Social Rights Initiative (NESRI) and PHRGE to analyze the charter school movement in the United States. The panel will feature Liz Sullivan of NESRI and will be moderated by PHRGE's Mariah McGill. 

04.12.12 Affiliated Faculty member, Professor Richard Daynard has been named University Distinguished Professor. He will be honored at the Academic Honors Convocation on Wednesday, April 18th.

03.28.12 Visiting Scholar, Professor Maria Green will present a lecture, "HRIA in Context: Introduction to Rights-Based Approaches to Development?" as part of the University of Ottawa's Videoconference Series on Human Rights Impact Assessment.

03.27.12 Professor Michael Meltsner has authored a play about Guantanamo Bay entitled "In Our Name:A Play of the Torture Years." A dramatic reading of this play will be performed by the Company One Theater Company in Boston on March 27, 2012. The performance will be followed by a panel discussion featuring distinguished lawyers and human rights activists.The performance is free and open to the public. Click here for more information.

03.23.12: PHRGE presents the 19th Annual Valerie Gordon Human Rights Lecture, featuring Terry McGovern, founder of the HIV Law Project in New York City and currently senior program officer in the Ford Foundation's Human Rights Division. "Women and HIV/Human Rights."

03.13.12: PHRGE and the Women's Law Caucus will co-sponsor a screening and discussion of Aku Siapa (Who Am I?), a documentary on the politics of veiling in Malaysia and Indonesia by Norhayati Kaprawi. Professor Zarizana Abdul Aziz, co-director of the Due Diligence Project will lead the discussion following the film. 

02.22.12: Professors Martha Davis and Margaret Woo, Co-Directors of PHRGE, and Risa Kaufman, the executive director of the Human Rights Institute at Columbia law school submitted a brief at the United States Supreme Court on behalf of the State of Florida against the United States Department of Health and Human Services regarding medicaid expansion. View brief

02.17.12: John F. Sherman III, Senior Fellow at Harvard Kennedy School discussed "The Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights," which were adopted by the UN Human Rights Council on June 16, 2011. Mr. Sherman helped draft the Guiding Principles.

02.16.12: PHRGE hosted an informal panel titled Global Health and Human Rights Research Projects. The featured panelists were Audrey Chapman, University of Connecticut, Lisa Forman, University of Toronto, and Ted Schrecker, University of Ottawa. The panel was moderated by NUSL's Professor Brook Baker. View event flyer

01.27.12: Kyle Courtney, Harvard Law Librarian, presented on how to research international and comparative human rights law.