The ‘Human Right to Science’: Whose Right and Whose Duties?

International human rights law guarantees a ‘right to participate in and to enjoy the benefits of scientific progress and its applications’. The lecture will explain why the so-called ‘right to science’ has largely stayed inactive, and what its recently-rekindled participatory dimension implies for its right-holders and duty-bearers. It proposes to interpret the right to science as a public good to help revise the predominant approach to science as an individual, ahistorical and acultural enterprise, and reverse the trend towards its privatization and commodification.

00:00:00　introduction
00:02:47　Samantha BESSON(Tokyo College Professor; Professor, Faculty of Law, the University of Fribourg; Professor, Collège de France)
00:59:40　OKI Sayaka (Professor, Graduate School of Education, The University of Tokyo)

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