Event details
Apr
28
Aquinas Institute Lecture: Can the Universal Human Rights Project be Saved? with Prof. Mary Ann Glendon
A lecture by Prof. Mary Ann Glendon (Harvard University School of Law) with a response by Prof. Stephen Macedo (Princeton University) at 5 p.m. on April 28th, 2025, in 100 Robertson Hall.
Description: At a moment when the post-World War II international order is changing with uncertain outcome, the future of the international human rights project is in doubt as well. Consensus on a few common principles that nearly every nation once pledged to meet is declining. Yet gross violations of human rights—torture, arbitrary arrest and imprisonment, and crackdowns on freedoms of speech and religion—have reached new highs in many parts of the world. The lecture will trace the course of the international human rights project from its origins to its impressive achievements of the late 20th century, to the current erosion of support, concluding with some thoughts about how it might be reinvigorated.
Prof. Many Ann Glendon, a leading authority in the field of human rights, is the Learned Hand Professor of Law, emerita, at Harvard University, and a former U.S. Ambassador to the Holy See. Prof. Stephen Macedo is Laurence S. Rockefeller Professor of Politics and the University Center for Human Values at Princeton.
This lecture is sponsored by the Aquinas Institute at Princeton University.
Description: At a moment when the post-World War II international order is changing with uncertain outcome, the future of the international human rights project is in doubt as well. Consensus on a few common principles that nearly every nation once pledged to meet is declining. Yet gross violations of human rights—torture, arbitrary arrest and imprisonment, and crackdowns on freedoms of speech and religion—have reached new highs in many parts of the world. The lecture will trace the course of the international human rights project from its origins to its impressive achievements of the late 20th century, to the current erosion of support, concluding with some thoughts about how it might be reinvigorated.
Prof. Many Ann Glendon, a leading authority in the field of human rights, is the Learned Hand Professor of Law, emerita, at Harvard University, and a former U.S. Ambassador to the Holy See. Prof. Stephen Macedo is Laurence S. Rockefeller Professor of Politics and the University Center for Human Values at Princeton.
This lecture is sponsored by the Aquinas Institute at Princeton University.
Speakers
Mary Ann Glendon
Stephen Macedo
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