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Week Twelve: Speaking Truth to Power

Hello! I am so ashamed I literally forgot all about this blog post on Monday because of the research assessment, but here it is! I think this week’s topic is one of the most important for our present day understanding … Continue reading →

Posted in Blogs, Week 12 | Tagged with accountability, enforced disappearances, Extrajudicial killings, justice, Madres de Plaza de Mayo

Week Twelve: Speaking Truth to Power

Hello! I am so ashamed I literally forgot all about this blog post on Monday because of the research assessment, but here it is! I think this week’s topic is one of the most important for our present day understanding … Continue reading →

Posted in Blogs, Week 12 | Tagged with accountability, enforced disappearances, Extrajudicial killings, justice, Madres de Plaza de Mayo

Week 12 | “From whom do we demand justice?”

Nancy Fraser says that to understand what a just system is we need to first experience or witness injustice. That is what this week’s chapter reminds me of, well, it also brought to my mind a lot of newspaper articles and news I’ve been bombarded with throughout my entire life. The problem of the drugContinue reading “Week 12 | “From whom do we demand justice?””

Posted in Blogs, Week 12 | Tagged with 43Ayotzinapa, Alexander Dawson, Corruption, justice, latin america, Madres Plaza de Mayo, Narcos, speaking truth to power

Week 6

Human Rights have been hailed as humanity’s last-standing hope (Samuel Moyn, The Last Utopia, 2010). They are ambitious in potential and broad in scope. Yet, as has been iterated by Prof. Beaseley-Murray in this week’s lecture, the remain “far from ‘self-evident.’” This is because rights are a discourse, not an absolute (expressed by Ronald Dwarkin: “rights as trumps”). Instead, rights must be understood as needing weighing, not hierarchizing (Pildes, The Structural Conception of Rights and Judicial Balancing, 2002). As such rights discourse holds no inherent morality, instead morality must be…read more

Posted in Blogs, Week 6 | Tagged with attributing rights, balancing rights, constitutionalism, discourse, human rights, judicial balancing, justice, law, liberalism, rights, scope of rights, social justice

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