Gastvortrag am 02.11.2022 - Eddie Bruce-Jones (London): Race and Human Rights: European and US Perspectives_拉斯维加斯赌城

Transatlantic History and Culture
2022-10-26T08:29:57.546807+00:00
Universit?t Augsburg

Bruce-Jones is Executive Dean of the School of Law at Birkbeck, University of London. He is a member of the New York Bar and author of many publications on topics of race, human rights, asylum and equality law. Bruce-Jones is also currently the principal investigator of an AHRC-funded project on the archives of the British colonial indentureship period, he has advised various intergovernmental and civil society organizations on issues of racism and human rights, including the Office of the UN High Commission on Human Rights. In his talk he will focus on some key issues of the history of race and racism in Europe and the United States as well as related contemporary legal issues, and the state of research on race and law. His focus will be on the historical perspective on human rights and the development of the concept in the legal discipline.