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PLP Colloquium: Catharine A. MacKinnon, 'Rape Redefined'

Rape Redefined: Kate O'Regan (Law) engages with Catharine A. MacKinnon.

Professor Catharine A. MacKinnon is the Elizabeth A. Long Professor of Law at Michigan Law and the long-term James Barr Ames Visiting Professor of Law at Harvard Law School. She specializes in sex equality issues under international and domestic (including comparative, criminal, and constitutional) law.

Kate O'Regan, the inaugural director of the Bonavero Institute of Human Rights, will be opening the discussion.

Nature as an Asset or Nature as a Subject of Rights: Which way for addressing the global biodiversity crisis?

In 2021 and 2022, two high-level academic reports concerning the way humanity should deal with the fate of biodiversity were published: 'The Economics of Biodiversity: The Dasgupta Review' and the IPBES 'Assessment on Diverse Values and Valuation of Nature'. The former conceptualises nature as an asset, while the latter acknowledges a wide diversity of ways of conceiving of and valuing nature. As an expression of such diversity, for an increasing number of people across the globe, ecosystems should hold legal personhood as a way of gaining protection.

Economic Diversification in Nigeria: The Politics of Building a Post-Oil Economy

Nigeria has for long been regarded as the poster child for the ‘curse’ of oil wealth. Yet, despite this, Nigeria achieved strong economic growth for over a decade in the 21st century, driven largely by policy reforms in non-oil sectors. In “Economic Diversification in Nigeria: The Politics of Building a Post-Oil Economy,” Zainab Usman argues that Nigeria’s major development challenge is not the ‘oil curse’, but rather one of achieving economic diversification beyond oil, subsistence agriculture, informal activities, and across its subnational entities.

Tawreak Gamble-Eddington

Ty is a graduate of Union College, summa cum laude, with a BA in History and Political Science. Previously, he pursued an MPhil in Race, Ethnicity, and Conflict at Trinity College Dublin as a George J. Mitchell Scholar. Starting in the fall of 2022, Ty will be reading for an MPhil in Politics (Comparative Gov) at Oxford University as a Rhodes scholar before beginning his legal education at Yale Law School.

Aaron Xavier Jerome

I'm a current MPhil International Relations student at DPIR. My research interests include the role of evolving technologies in conflict, security studies, resource competition and geopolitics, and historical IR.

Before joining DPIR, I received a BA in Philosophy from Columbia University (Magna Cum Laude). I then worked for several years as a paralegal, focusing on finance law and volunteering on international human rights cases.

Book launch: ‘The Constitution in Jeopardy’ by Russ Feingold and Peter Prindiville

Join us for a book launch and talk from former US Senator and current President of the American Constitution Society Russ Feingold (1975), and Peter Prindiville, a practising attorney, about their new book on amending the United States Constitution. The talk will be held on Tuesday 15th November at 5pm in the Magdalen College Auditorium: ‘The Constitution in Jeopardy: an Unprecedented Effort to Rewrite our Fundamental Law and What We can Do About It‘

‘Power to the People?’: Citizens and the Everyday State in Early Postcolonial South Asia

South Asia’s transition from colonialism to independence in 1947 was undoubtedly one of the most momentous events of the twentieth century. Not surprisingly perhaps, its early postcolonial years have come to exercise a great pull for a range of scholars, who explore this key period, on the one hand, to ask questions about colonial-era legacies or continuities, and, on the other, to identify developments that help to explain what is happening there in the twenty-first century.
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