This conference aims to bring together leading philosophers of human rights and rising stars to present frontier work on themes related to social rights, including the conceptual terrain, the place of social rights within the standard dichotomy between so-called ‘liberty rights’ and ‘welfare rights’, the defensibility of social rights as human rights, their relevance to distributive justice issues such as equality of opportunity, and their bearing on other branches of political philosophy such as democratic theory. The conference aims both to expand human rights theory and to set an agenda for further research.
Invited speakers include:
1. Elizabeth Ashford, University of St Andrews
2. Samantha Besson, Université de Fribourg
3. Elizabeth Brake, Arizona State University
4. Kimberley Brownlee, University of Warwick
5. Clare Chambers, University of Cambridge
6. Matthew Clayton, University of Warwick (tbc)
7. Stephanie Collins, Australian Catholic University
8. Chiara Cordelli, University of Chicago
9. Alexandra Couto, University of Kent
10. Rowan Cruft, University of Stirling
11. Anca Gheaus, Pompeu Fabra University
12. Simon Hope, University of Stirling
13. David Jenkins, University of Warwick
14. Matthew Liao, New York University
15. James Nickel, University of Miami
16. Henry Shue, University of Oxford
17. Zofia Stemplowska, University of Oxford
18. Adam Swift, UCL (tbc)
19. Jesse Tomalty, University of Bergen