The Future of Human Rights: Social Science Research and Reality on the Ground

"The Future of Human Rights: Social Science Research and Reality on the Ground"
Beth Simmons, Andrea Mitchell University Professor of Law, Political Science, and Business Ethics, University of Pennsylvania

This Keynote Lecture was part of the April 2, 2018 Human Rights Conference. ""Frontiers of Human Rights Research: Methodological Innovations and New Rights Issues.""

This interdisciplinary conference convenes leading scholars of human rights engaged in cutting-edge research in terms of the methodologies they adopt and/or the topics they focus on. The last couple of decades has established human rights research as a new vibrant field in which scholars from various disciplinary backgrounds brought their insights to advance our understanding of human rights. We take stock of those developments and explore applications of new methodological approaches and examination of new human rights issues with a view to opening new horizons of human rights research.

Organized by the Donia Human Rights Center, University of Michigan and SSK (Social Science Korea) Human Rights Forum, Sungkyunkwan University; co-sponsored by the Nam Center for Korean Studies, University of Michigan.