Friday 27 January 2023 1:00pm to 2:00pm
Lauterpacht Centre for International Law, Berkowitz/Finley Lecture Hall
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This lecture is now a hybrid event.
You are very welcome to attend in-person at the Centre or you can attend online. However, you will need to register.
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Lecture summary: The lecture will explore the extent to which key normative and institutional responses to the challenges raised by the digital age are compatible with, or interact with, changes in key features of the existing international human rights law (IHRL) framework. Furthermore, it will be claimed that the IHRL framework is already changing, partly due to its interaction with digital human rights. This moving normative landscape creates new opportunities for promoting human rights in the digital age, but might also raise new concerns about the political acceptability of IHRL.
Professor Yuval Shany is the Hersch Lauterpacht Chair in International Law and former Dean of the Law Faculty of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He was a member of the UN Human Rights Committee from 2013 to 2020 and served for one year during that time as Chair of the Committee. He serves, at present, as a senior research fellow at the Israel Democracy Institute, and as the head of the CyberLaw program of the Hebrew University CyberSecurity Research Center. He is also serving this years as the co-director of the Center for Transnational Legal Studies at King’s College, London.
Available pre-lecture reading materials: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4270794
Chaired by: Dr Fernando Lusa Bordin
A sandwich lunch is available for all attendees from 12.30 pm in the Old Library.
The Lauterpacht Centre Friday lecture series is kindly supported by Cambridge University Press
A recording of this lecture is available at https://www.lcil.cam.ac.uk/lecture-recordings