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The Datafied Society: Challenges for Communications and Legal Theory

The growth of automated data collection and processing, and its installation within contemporary  social economic and political orders has created huge challenges: for protecting fundamental rights and values such as freedom and autonomy, for understanding the connections between communications and social order, for key democratic and societal processes such as the law, and potentially for the very legitimacy and authority of legal decision-making. All of these challenges generate a wider question about what would justice look like in the realm of data.

This proposed ICA [one-day] pre-conference aims to bring together communications scholars with legal scholars for  discussions about latest developments and practical and theoretical ways forward in the face of these challenges. It will be supported by the Department of Media and Communications at the London School of Economics, the Data Justice Lab.

24th Inter-American Human Rights Moot Court Competition

Between May 19 - 24 the Academy on Human Rihgts and Humanitarian Law will host the 24th Inter-American Human Rights Moot Court Competition at the WCL campus. The Competition is a unique trilingual (English, Portuguese, and Spanish) event established to train attorneys and law students on how to use the Inter-American legal system as a legitimate forum for redressing human rights violations, and promote cutting-edge discussions on current human rights issues.

The topic for the 2019 Competition is "The Protection of Migrants under International Human Rights Law". The hypothetical case was written by Alvaro Botero Navarro, who is a member of the United Nations Committee on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of their Families and Coordinator for the Rapporteurship on the Rights of Migrants at the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights.

This year's Competition will welcome 86 teams, from 23 different countries, including Belgium, Singapore, France, India, and from all over the Americas. Additionally, over 250 law professors, diplomats, human rights advocates and attorneys from a number of different organizations are acting as judges for the Moot Court.

A Human Right to Reproductive Health the Human Rights Committee’s General Comment on the Right to Life//El Derecho Humano a la Salud Reproductiva: La Observación General del Comité de Derechos Humanos sobre el Derecho a la Vida

A Human Right to Reproductive Health: The Human Rights Committee’s General Comment on the Right to Life

Domestic Implementation of International Human Rights Judgments: An Ongoing Conversation in the European and Inter-American Human Rights Systems

The Academy on Human Rights and Humanitarian Law and the American Society of International Law present as part of the Human Rights Speaker Series:

Domestic Implementation of International Human Rights Judgments: An Ongoing Conversation in the European and Inter-American Human Rights Systems

The domestic implementation of international human rights judgments is considered an essential aspect to assess the effectiveness of regional human rights courts. Both at the Inter-American and European levels, experts have been debating for years on alternatives to improve the level of compliance with these judgments and devise tools to enhance state engagement in the process. The speakers in this panel, with extensive experience in the regional human rights systems, will explore the scope of the notion of "implementation" and evaluate whether additional levels of impacts can be identified in the process of enforcing compliance and redressing victims.