Does Human Rights Have a History?

As legal academics debate the origins of human rights and the role of human rights in legal education, the University of Chicago’s Pozen Family Center for Human Rights has taken the bull by the horns.   On April 10-11, 2015, the Center will sponsor a conference entitled “Does Human Rights Have a History?”  Speakers include leading historians such as Molly Nolan (NYU), Elizabeth Borgwardt (Wash. U.), Amy Dru Stanley (Chicago), and Samuel Moyn (Harvard), as well as philosopher Martha Nussbaum (Chicago).  While the conversation will be wide-ranging, moving from Rwanda to South Korea, one panel will specifically focus on the relationship of human rights and the civil rights movement in the United States.

Details about this timely and topical conference are available here.