C3R joins the Research Priority Area in Rights and Justice to host a talk by world-leading expert on human rights
On April 21, the Research Priority Area (RPA) in Rights and Justice hosted a keynote lecture by Professor Todd Landman, the University of Nottingham Pro-Vice Chancellor for the Social Sciences faculty. 140 people packed into Highfield House for the talk, which made the case for social science ‘rigorous morality’; explained the social construction of human rights; explored how to build explanations from the ground up, global statistical analysis, and the problem of selection; and concluded with a vision of how to make social science matter. Its multi-disciplinary approach of politics, law, Area Studies, international relations and economics showed how theory-driven empirical analysis can come together with real-world advocacy, in order to map, explain, and understand the variation in human rights abuse around the world.
Professor Landman is internationally renowned for his work on the measurement and analysis of human rights. His many books include Human Rights and Democracy: The Precarious Triumph of Ideals (2013), Measuring Human Rights (2009), Assessing the Quality of Democracy (2008), Studying Human Rights (2006), Protecting Human Rights (2005), and Citizenship Rights and Social Movements (1997, 2000). He has worked with a wide range of international governmental and non-governmental organisations, including the Inter-European Consortium for Human Rights, the United Nations Development Programme, the UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights, the UK Department for International Development, and Amnesty International. He writes for and appears in The Guardian, The Conversation, openGlobalRights, Al Jazeera, and other media outlets. He also is one of the management team members for the RPA, which brings together researchers from 20 centres across the university, including C3R. Co-directed by Professor Zoe Trodd, the RPA focuses on human rights, civil rights, minority rights, criminal justice, social and economic justice, and all forms of equality.
A video of the talk will be available soon. In the meantime, check our Professor Landman’s podcast series The Rights Track!
Posted on Tuesday 26th April 2016