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SUMMARY:Chet Mitchell Memorial Lecture | “Human Rights in the Neoliberal Maelstrom”
DESCRIPTION:With special guest, Professor Samuel Moyn (Yale Law School and Department of History) 



This lecture takes a position in a current debate about how to conceptualize the relationship between human rights and neoliberal globalization. The timing of the two phenomena — one in ethics and one in economics — has coincided, both rising since a 1970s breakthrough. But debate rages about whether to see human rights as the best tools to oppose their neoliberal Doppelgänger or to regard the new law and movements around rights — including economic and social rights — as part of the problem. This talk rejects both extreme positions in order to seek a different alternative. Of course human rights are a product of their time, but this hardly means they are easy to dismiss. However, as a set of ethical propositions and a set of practices, human rights are not what we need to confront economic injustice.



*Limited seating* 



Light refreshments will be served. 
LOCATION:2224 Richcraft Hall, Carleton University, 1125 Colonel By Dr, Ottawa, ON K1S 5B6
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