This conference at Rutgers has quite an impressive lineup:
The Universal Declaration of Human Rights was adopted by the United
Nations in 1948, and in recognition of the UDHR's 60th anniversary,
the Rutgers Institute for Law and Philosophy, based at the Rutgers Law
School in Camden, New Jersey, will host a one-day conference on Human
Rights in Theory and Practice on Friday, October 3rd. The first
panel, on the philosophical foundations of human rights, will consist
in presentations by James Griffin (Rutgers), James Nickel (Arizona
State), and Joseph Raz (Columbia/Oxford). The second panel, on the
role of human rights in politics and political philosophy, will
consist in presentations by Charles Beitz (Princeton), Allen Buchanan
(Duke), and Thomas Pogge (Yale). The final panel, on the impact of
the UDHR on the practice of human rights law, will consist in
presentations by Philip Alston (NYU), Roger Clark (Rutgers-Camden),
and Beth Stephens (Rutgers-Camden).Registration is required and details may be found here:
http://www.lawandphil.rutgers.edu/upcomingconferences.html
