As the impacts of climate change accelerate, human societies will face a set of cascading, layered, and interrelated challenges. Droughts, sea level rise, and extreme weather and heat will increasingly affect food security, public health, economic development, and conflict. The relatively stable ecological conditions in which human societies have been governed in recent decades cannot be assumed to continue. How should future leaders prepare, and what role can, or must, universities play in that process?

How can victims pursue justice in the growing international rights regime?

*Brysk, Human Rights and the Globalization of Law

Leigh Payne, Oxford University—Transitional Justice and Corporate Accountability
Pilar Elizalde, London School of Economics

How can the legal protection of migrants expand to meet the challenges of forced displacement and non-state violators?

*Brysk, People Out of Place (2004); Human Rights and Private Wrongs (2005); From Human Trafficking to Human Rights (2012)

Stephen Meili, Minnesota-Oxford: refugee law and Constitutionalism
Loren Landau, Oxford University—"Mobility, rights, and competing temporalities”

How can we gain accountability for human rights abuse in a globalizing world?

*Brysk, The Politics of Human Rights in Argentina (1994), Global Good Samaritans (2009)

Neil Mitchell, UCL--“Accountability for human rights violations”
Yuna Han, Oxford University—“Refugees and universal jurisdiction”

How do new forms of global communication foster rights campaigns and human rights education?

Brysk, Speaking Rights to Power (2013)

Todd Landman, Nottingham-The Rights Track

This event will focus on Patrick Cohrs's new book, 'The New Atlantic Order: The Transformation of International Politics, 1860–1933'. Professor Cohrs is Professor of History at Università degli Studi, Florence.

The event will be chaired by Professor Patricia Clavin. Professor Edward Keene will serve as discussant.

If you cannot attend in person, you can watch the talk remotely via Zoom:

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