This week Professor Sandra Liebenberg, HF Oppenheimer Chair in Human Rights Law in the Law Faculty of the University of Stellenbosch, and Co-Director of the Faculty’s Socio-Economic Rights and Administrative Justice Research Project (SERAJ), will be at the University of Nottingham as the 2015 JC Smith Trust Fund Visiting Scholar.
As part of the JC Smith Scholar programme Professor Liebenberg will be participating in an expert workshop on New Directions in Socio-economic Research and Litigation organised by Professor Aoife Nolan, HRLC Economic and Social Rights Unit Head.
The key aim of the Workshop is to foster open discussion on obstacles and innovative responses in terms of socio-economic rights (SER) research and litigation. The Workshop will be based around a number of presentations from leading experts in the field. Presentations and discussion will explore a number of key challenges to the SER movement including:
- The broader political context of SER and the human rights movement generally:
- The changing institutional environment, including the intertwinement of state and private actors;
- Current trends in social movement and NGO politics and activity;
- The status of SER as a body of law in terms of both national and international law and the growth of complaints procedures;
- Innovative methods for developing the normative substance of SER and creative remedies;
- Non-court based methods of SER advocacy and methodologies.
The Workshop will feature academic experts from Law Schools across the UK and Ireland.
On Monday 16 March Professor Liebenberg will kick off her visit with a postgraduate workshop entitled Participatory Models of Adjudication: A Panacea for Structural Violations of Human Rights?
In addition to the workshops and other teaching and speaking engagements in the School of Law, on Tuesday 17 March at 1pm Professor Liebenberg will deliver a staff seminar chaired by Professor Nolan entitled Social Rights and Transformative Constitutionalism: Three Frames.
Posted on Monday 16th March 2015