{"id":20428,"date":"2018-01-15T10:07:09","date_gmt":"2018-01-15T15:07:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/its-cuthemedev1.carleton.ca\/law\/?p=20428"},"modified":"2025-06-23T11:43:10","modified_gmt":"2025-06-23T15:43:10","slug":"chet-mitchell-memorial-lecture-samuel-moyn-january-15th-700-p-m","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/law\/2018\/chet-mitchell-memorial-lecture-samuel-moyn-january-15th-700-p-m\/","title":{"rendered":"Chet Mitchell Memorial Lecture &#8211; Samuel Moyn &#8211; January 15th, 7:00 p.m."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<section class=\"w-screen px-6 cu-section cu-section--white ml-offset-center md:px-8 lg:px-14\">\n    <div class=\"space-y-6 cu-max-w-child-5xl  md:space-y-10 cu-prose-first-last\">\n\n            <div class=\"cu-textmedia flex flex-col lg:flex-row mx-auto gap-6 md:gap-10 my-6 md:my-12 first:mt-0 max-w-5xl\">\n        <div class=\"justify-start cu-textmedia-content cu-prose-first-last\" style=\"flex: 0 0 100%;\">\n            <header class=\"font-light prose-xl cu-pageheader md:prose-2xl cu-component-updated cu-prose-first-last\">\n                                    <h1 class=\"cu-prose-first-last font-semibold !mt-2 mb-4 md:mb-6 relative after:absolute after:h-px after:bottom-0 after:bg-cu-red after:left-px text-3xl md:text-4xl lg:text-5xl lg:leading-[3.5rem] pb-5 after:w-10 text-cu-black-700 not-prose\">\n                        Chet Mitchell Memorial Lecture &#8211; Samuel Moyn &#8211; January 15th, 7:00 p.m.\n                    <\/h1>\n                \n                                \n                            <\/header>\n\n                    <\/div>\n\n            <\/div>\n\n    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n<p><strong>The Department of Law &amp; Legal Studies is proud to present the Chet Mitchell Memorial Lecture Series with guest lecture Samuel Moyn of Yale University.&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Who:<\/strong>&nbsp;<span style=\"font-family: 'Helvetica',sans-serif;\">Professor Moyn is a leading scholar of human rights. Over the course of the past decade, he has revolutionized our understanding of the field. He is the author or editor of numerous books, including&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.cornellpress.cornell.edu\/book\/?GCOI=80140100471690\"><i><span style=\"color: purple;\">Origins of the Other: Emmanuel Levinas&nbsp;between Revelation and Ethics<\/span><\/i><\/a>&nbsp;(Cornell University Press, 2005),&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.upne.com\/1584655089.html\"><i><span style=\"color: purple;\">A Holocaust Controversy: The Treblinka Affair in Postwar France<\/span><\/i><\/a>&nbsp;(Brandeis University Press,&nbsp;2005),&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.hup.harvard.edu\/catalog.php?isbn=9780674064348\"><i><span style=\"color: purple;\">The Last Utopia: Human Rights in History<\/span><\/i><\/a>&nbsp;(Harvard University Press, 2010),&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.versobooks.com\/books\/2455-human-rights-and-the-uses-of-history\"><i><span style=\"color: purple;\">Human Rights and the Uses of History<\/span><\/i><\/a>&nbsp;(Verso, 2014),&nbsp;and&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.upenn.edu\/pennpress\/book\/1716.html\"><i><span style=\"color: purple;\">Christian Human Rights<\/span><\/i><\/a>&nbsp;(University of Pennsylvania Press, 2015). His most recent book, titled&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.hup.harvard.edu\/catalog.php?isbn=9780674737563\"><i><span style=\"color: purple;\">Not Enough: Human Rights in an Unequal World<\/span><\/i><\/a>, is forthcoming from Harvard University Press in April 2018. It will serve as the basis for his lecture.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>When:<\/strong> January 15th, 7:00 p.m.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Where:&nbsp;<\/strong>Richcraft Hall, room 2224.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"240\" height=\"311\" src=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/law\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/110\/Chet-Mitchell-Samuel-Moyn-240x311.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-20429\" srcset=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/law\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/110\/Chet-Mitchell-Samuel-Moyn-240x311.jpg 240w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/law\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/110\/Chet-Mitchell-Samuel-Moyn-160x207.jpg 160w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/law\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/110\/Chet-Mitchell-Samuel-Moyn-768x994.jpg 768w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/law\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/110\/Chet-Mitchell-Samuel-Moyn-400x518.jpg 400w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/law\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/110\/Chet-Mitchell-Samuel-Moyn-360x466.jpg 360w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/law\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/110\/Chet-Mitchell-Samuel-Moyn.jpg 1275w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 240px) 100vw, 240px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Department of Law &amp; Legal Studies is proud to present the Chet Mitchell Memorial Lecture Series with guest lecture Samuel Moyn of Yale University.&nbsp; Who:&nbsp;Professor Moyn is a leading scholar of human rights. Over the course of the past decade, he has revolutionized our understanding of the field. He is the author or editor [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20428","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":{"cu_post_thumbnail":"announcement"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20428","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20428"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20428\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20431,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20428\/revisions\/20431"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20428"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20428"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20428"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}