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Recasting Human Rights without a Shadow<\/h1>\n

Matt Perry and Davide Pala<\/strong><\/p>\n

Artur Lewis Building 2.036<\/em><\/p>\n

Human rights are often pitched as a panacea. They seem to both secure widespread agreement and guarantee a theoretical basis for the condemnation of the worst atrocities committed by humans. Yet for each of their rewards, there is often an attendant \u201cdark side\u201d to be reckoned with. For instance, challenges based on inclusivity (excluding animals, some humans, and perhaps AI), inflation (being over-extended), determinacy (providing vague or under-specified imperatives), equality (some have it, while others don\u2019t), claimability (lacking clear duty-bearers), and institutionalisation (lacking practical protection), among various others. In this panel, we intend to address this dark side, and reimagine what human rights without a shadow would look like.<\/p>\n

Recasting human rights is a twofold task. Firstly, it requires a deep understanding of the range of disputes that human rights are faced with, including but not limited to those mentioned above. Second, reimagining human rights requires responding to these issues in novel ways that nonetheless retain the core meanings and functions of those rights. For instance, in responding to challenges of inclusivity, theorists might extend the scope <\/em>of human rights, but at the danger of diluting the protections they already provide. Alternatively, we might argue for the possibility of new rights that better address the above considerations, but at the risk of alienating international law and making the institutionalisation of those rights harder to achieve. Contemporary philosophers attempting to reimagine human rights are therefore often committed to being revisionary, but without over-turning human rights practice entirely \u2014 <\/em>yet perhaps a more transformative approach is needed.<\/p>\n

We are interested in receiving abstracts on the above topic, responding to questions related but not limited to the following:<\/p>\n