DIVIDED BY A COMMON HERITAGE: HUMAN RIGHTS IN EUROPE AND THE UNITED STATES

An all-day conference devoted to commonalities and divergences in approaches to human rights. Topics include privacy and security (in the context of cyber communications) and discrimination and equality (focusing on race). Panelists are Harvard academics and European scholars and practitioners.

Dean Martha Minow will introduce the Secretary General of the Council of Europe, Thorbjørn Jagland, who will make a keynote address at  12 p.m. in Milstein East B. Lunch will be served. For more information, please go to the conference website.

Location: Wasserstein Hall, Milstein East C, Harvard Law School, 1585 Massachusetts Avenue

Please RSVP to hrp@law.harvard.edu

This conference is being sponsored by the Council of Europe, the Human Rights Program, the Center for European Studies, and the Weatherhead Initiative on Global History.