Engage with the Pozen Center this fall! There are opportunities to learn more about the human rights major, human rights internship program and to attend events addressing human rights issues.

Pozen Human Rights Internship Information Session

Tuesday, October 10 at 4:00 pm CT
Virtual Event - REGISTER for the Zoom Link

Come learn about the Pozen Center's Human Rights Internship Program, an opportunity to explore human rights in practice around the world. Interns receive a $5000 award and staff support to pursue an 8- to 10-week summer internship in an area of interest. Applications are due October 29.

Becoming a Human Rights Major

Friday, October 13 at 12:30 pm CT, REGISTER
Tea Room, Social Science Research Building, 2nd Floor, 1126 East 59th St.

The human rights major launched last year at UChicago features unprecedented opportunities to engage in the study and practice of human rights! Hear from Prof. Ben Laurence, Coordinator of Undergraduate Studies at the Pozen Center, about the course requirements, double majoring, study abroad option in Paris, the fieldwork built into the major, and other opportunities for students who want a deeper exploration of human rights! A light lunch will be provided for those who register.

After Dobbs: Reproductive Freedom, Justice, and the Power of the State

Tuesday, October 10, from 5-6:30 pm CT

The Law School, Lloyd Auditorium, 1111 East 60th St

The 2022 Supreme Court decision in Dobbs v Jackson Women’s Health Organization raises critical questions about the future of a constitutional right to abortion and the state’s power over life and death. Join Professors Michele Goodwin, Dorothy Roberts, and Mary Ziegler in conversation with University of Chicago Law Professor Geoffrey Stone to discuss their contributions to Roe v. Dobbs: The Past, Present, and Future of a Constitutional Right to Abortion. Presented by the Center for the Study of Gender and Sexuality and the University of Chicago Law School. Co-sponsored by the Chicago Center for Contemporary Theory (3CT) and the Pozen Family Center Human Rights. Learn more here.

"The Joy of Consent" with Manon Garcia, Chiara Cordelli & Agnes Callard

Wednesday, October 11 at 5 pm CT, REGISTER

Center for the Study of Gender and Sexuality, 5733 S. University Ave., Community Lounge

In The Joy of Consent, feminist philosopher Manon Garcia, Junior Professor at Freie Universität Berlin, argues that consent is not only a highly imperfect legal threshold but also an underappreciated complement of good sex. While in the age of #MeToo, consent has become the ultimate answer to problems of sexual harassment and violence, Garcia challenges the simplistic equation between consent and noncoercion. She will be joined in conversation by UChicago Professors Chiara Cordelli and Agnes Callard. Presented by the Pozen Center and co-sponsored by the Center for the Study of Gender and Sexuality. Learn more here.

Buddhism and Comparative Constitutional Law

Thursday, October 12, from 12:15-1:20 p.m. CT 

The Law School, Room V, 1111 East 60th St

Join editors Tom Ginsburg, Leo Spitz Distinguished Service Professor of International Law at the University of Chicago, and Benjamin Schonthal, Professor of Buddhist Studies at the University of Otago in Aotearoa/New Zealand, as they discuss an agenda-setting edited collection of essays looking at the relationship between Buddhism and public law in Asia. The volume, which has the potential to open a new sub-field within comparative constitutional law, brings together contributions from law, politics, history, anthropology, and religious studies to examine the relationship between Buddhism, constitutions, and constitutional law. Learn more here.

The Triumph of Counter-Terrorism and the Despair of Human Rights

Friday, October 13, from 12:15-1:20 p.m. CT 
The Law School, Room V, 1111 East 60th St

Ni Aolain, concurrently Regents Professor and Robina Professor of Law, Public Policy, and Society at the University of Minnesota Law School and Professor of Law at the Queens University, Belfast, Northern Ireland, argues that the growth of counter-terrorism since 2001 has come at the direct expense of the rule of law and human rights and has contributed to rising authoritarianism and backsliding democracies. Learn more here.

 

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