Human Rights & Academic Repression
UC Davis School of Law was a co-sponsor for a series of workshops and symposium on "Human Rights and Academic Repression" held at USF on April 13-14, 2007. The events explored intersections—existing and potential—between international human rights standards, strategies and methods, and traditional understandings of academic freedom and institutional autonomy in the higher education sector.
Recognizing historical and ongoing attacks on scholars and universities worldwide, these events explored ways in which developments over several decades in the human rights scholarship, advocacy, and policy-making might be employed in responding to, mitigating, or deterring such attacks. The events brought together international scholars from different disciplines, especially law and human rights, together with academic freedom advocates, human rights practitioners, higher education decision-makers, and representatives of concerned institutions and organizations, including the university and college members of the Scholars at Risk Network (SAR).
Beth Greenwood, a member of the National Advisory Board to SAR, and director of international programs at UC Davis School of Law, said in an article in the California Aggie that attendees at the event had the opportunity to learn more about the rights of threatened scholars and students and meet scholars and students whose rights have been threatened.
Greenwood and UC Davis Professor of Law Martha West moderated panels.
Other sponsors included UC Davis, UC Davis Extension, USF, and SAR, in cooperation with the USF Center for Law and Global Justice, USF Human Rights Working Group, McCarthy Center for Public Good, the Peace Review, and the USF Journal of Law and Social Challenges.
Scholars at Risk Network
Recognizing historical and ongoing attacks on scholars and universities worldwide, these events explored ways in which developments over several decades in the human rights scholarship, advocacy, and policy-making might be employed in responding to, mitigating, or deterring such attacks. The events brought together international scholars from different disciplines, especially law and human rights, together with academic freedom advocates, human rights practitioners, higher education decision-makers, and representatives of concerned institutions and organizations, including the university and college members of the Scholars at Risk Network (SAR).
Beth Greenwood, a member of the National Advisory Board to SAR, and director of international programs at UC Davis School of Law, said in an article in the California Aggie that attendees at the event had the opportunity to learn more about the rights of threatened scholars and students and meet scholars and students whose rights have been threatened.
Greenwood and UC Davis Professor of Law Martha West moderated panels.
Other sponsors included UC Davis, UC Davis Extension, USF, and SAR, in cooperation with the USF Center for Law and Global Justice, USF Human Rights Working Group, McCarthy Center for Public Good, the Peace Review, and the USF Journal of Law and Social Challenges.
Scholars at Risk Network