Dear Friends,
We invite you to join us for a Virtual Workshop (by zoom) commemorating the
70th Anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. The program
is below, along with instructions for zoom. The themes are varied and the
conversation will address environmental and climate justice and the
relationship between environmental and human rights. We hope you can join
in for all or part. It's cost-free and carbon-free.
Erin Daly and Jimmy May
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The Dignity Rights Project
Dignity in Action
Widener University Delaware Law School
*4th Dignity Rights Virtual Workshop*
*Commemorating the 70thAnniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human
Rights*
*Friday, Nov. 30, 2018*, *10AM-Noon NYC Time*
To join the Zoom Meeting click on this link:
*https://widener.zoom.us/j/476597626
<https://widener.zoom.us/j/476597626>*
*Program*
10:00-10:15 Jimmy May and Erin Daly, Delaware Law School, U.S.
Welcome and Introductions
Part One: Cross-Cutting Themes
10:15-10:30 Isabella Bunn, Regents' Park College, University of
Oxford, UK
The Quest for a Social and International Order: Article 28 of the UDHR as a
Foundation for Human Dignity
10:30-10:40 Elaine Webster, University of Strathclyde, Scotland
Reconceptualizing the Relationship between Human Dignity and Intrinsic Worth
10:40-10:50 Simone Berman-Perlstein, Delaware Law School, Class of 2020
Corporate Accountability for Dignity Violations under Regional Human Rights
Conventions
10:50-11:00 Rodney Smolla, Dean, Delaware Law School
Part Two: Regional Spotlights
11:00-11:10 Rose-Gaëlle Desiral, Université de la Fondation Aristide,
Haiti
The Fight for Recognition and Respect of the Right to Dignity of the
Haitian People
11:10-11:20 Rai Mohammad Khan, Lahore High Court, Pakistan
The UDHR's Imprint on the Successive Constitutions
of Pakistan
11:20-11:30 Tasneem Kausar, Pakistan College of Law, Pakistan
Dignity Rights and the Criminal Justice System in
Pakistan
11:30-11:40 Sara Evans, Delaware Law School, Class of 2019
Dignity Beyond Constitutions in the United States
11:40-11:50 Stephen Kass, Carter Ledyard & Milburn
Dignity – Putting it All Together
11:50-12:00 Closing Remarks
*Instructions for Zoom Meeting*
To join the Zoom Meeting click on this link*:
**https://widener.zoom.us/j/476597626
<https://widener.zoom.us/j/476597626>* just before 10:00 a.m. NY Time. If
you have not used zoom before, you may need to download the program which
will only take a moment.
At the bottom of the screen, you should see a microphone icon to mute and
unmute your sound and a video camera icon to show you by video or to show
only your name on the screen. You may want to keep the video off until you
are settled in front of your computer. Unless you are speaking, please keep
the audio off to avoid feedback.
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Erin Daly
Professor of Law
Delaware Law School <http://delawarelaw.widener.edu/>
Co-Founder, Dignity Rights Project
<http://delawarelaw.widener.edu/prospective-students/jd-program/jd-academics/public-interest/dignity-rights-project/>
Director, Global Network for Human Rights and the Environment (GNHRE)
<http://gnhre.org/>
*Dignity Rights: Constitutions, Courts, and the Worth of the Human Person
<http://www.amazon.com/Dignity-Rights-Constitutions-Citizenship-Constitutionalism/dp/0812244400>Reconciliation
in Divided Societies: Finding Common Ground
<http://www.amazon.com/Reconciliation-Divided-Societies-Finding-Pennsylvania/dp/0812221249/ref=asap_bc?ie=UTF8>Global
Environmental Constitutionalism
<http://www.amazon.com/Global-Environmental-Constitutionalism-James-May/dp/1107022258/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1415097728&sr=1-1&keywords=global+environmental+constitutionalism>*
*Implementing Environmental Constitutionalism*
<http://admin.cambridge.org/academic/subjects/law/environmental-law/implementing-environmental-constitutionalism-current-global-challenges?format=HB>
*Environmental Constitutionalism*
<https://www.e-elgar.com/shop/environmental-constitutionalism?___website=uk_warehouse>
Scholarship on SSRN
<http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/cf_dev/AbsByAuth.cfm?per_id=83682>
Adjunct Professor of Law and Dignity Rights
*Pakistan College of Law <http://www.pcl.edu.pk/>*
Vice President, Institutional Development
*UNIFA (Universite de la Fondation Dr. Aristide)*
<http://unifa-edu.info/contenu/>
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