Professor Marie-Bénédicte Dembour to talk at CeCIL Guest Speaker Night

The Four-school human rights model: Pushing its logic further

The Centre for Critical International Law (CeCIL) is hosting another Guest Speaker Night on Thursday 17 March. Professor Marie-Bénédicte Dembour, Human Rights Centre, University of Ghent, will be on campus to talk about ‘The four-school human rights model: Pushing its logic further.’

Professor Dembour is professor of Law and Anthropology at the Human Rights Centre, University of Ghent.  She is the author of Who Believes in Human Rights? (2006) and the award winning When Humans become Migrants (2015).  She is currently leading an ESRC funded five years research project: ‘DISSECT: Evidence in International Human Rights Adjudication.’ DISSECT explores the evidentiary regimes of the world’s three regional human rights courts and two UN quasi-judicial bodies.

The free event takes place in the Darwin Lecture Theatre 2 at 18.00, ending at approximately 19.30 GMT. To view the event online pre-register your place.

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