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The Bernard and Audre Rapoport Center for Human Rights and Justice

Partners for change at the intersection of academics and advocacy.


Conferences

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Panelists Charlotte Canning, Gregory Burke, and Nicholas Cull discuss performance and human rights at the Rapoport Center Conference Aftershocks: Legacies of Conflict, February 2011.

The Bernard and Audre Rapoport Center for Human Rights and Justice has made strong efforts to explore the intersection of international human rights study and advocacy through the hosting of various conferences. The Rapoport Center also engages human rights faculty, staff and students in dialogue, reflection, and evaluation of the diversity of international and transnational human rights issues in which UT campuses are involved. The Center hopes to use these conferences to consider the state of human rights theory and practice and their possible future trajectories.

Property Rights and the Human Rights Agenda


March 1-2, 2012

This multidisciplinary and comparative conference explored the ambivalent relationship between human rights and property and the extent to which the right to property might advance a human rights agenda. The conference opened March 1 with a keynote panel including Carol Rose (Yale University & University of Arizona), David Kennedy (Harvard University), and Samuel Moyn (Columbia University), and was followed by a day of panels on March 2 that featured an impressive array of scholars from Africa, Latin America, and South Asia who provided comparative perspectives on such topics as changing conceptions of property, the role of property rights in dispossession and redistribution, and the implications of private titling.

Past Conferences