First seminar cycle organized by the ERC research project RIVERS “Empirical dialogues in human rights” – October 2019 – January 2020, University Carlos III de Madrid, Spain.
All seminars will be live streamed and afterwards available at RIVERS webpage www.rivers-ercproject.eu and RIVERS youtube canal.
First seminar is: Siri Gloppen – University of Bergen (Norway), Centre on Law & Social Transformation
Human Rights Research Methods across Disciplines: Interdisciplinarity and Multimethods research
Thursday 17 October 2019, 11 am-13 pm
Introduction Seminar cycle
An empirical turn is taking place in international legal scholarship. Traditionally the fields of international law and human rights law are occupied by lawyers concerned about legal theory, jurisprudence and doctrinal analysis. In recent years, a trend is emerging were social scientists such as political scientists, anthropologists, sociologists and economists are interested in contributing from an empirical approach to the theoretical debates over whether international law and human rights law matters at all or not. Across disciplines sparking debates about human rights are taking place. This kind of interdisciplinary research contributes to narrowing the gap between legal theory, empirical reality and legal practitioners work on the ground. The objective of this seminar
cycle is to open up space for empirical and theoretical dialogues between legal scholars and social scientists about substantive areas such as the human right to water and health, sexual and reproductive rights, the right
to justice and reparation in post-conflict societies, indigenous peoples’ rights, racism and discrimination.