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The Three Generations of Digital Human Rights

27 November 2024, 6:00 pm–7:00 pm

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This lecture explores the adaptation of international human rights law and the challenges of digital technology

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Organiser

UCL Laws Events

Location

Moot Court, UCL Faculty of Laws
Bentham House
Endsleigh Gardens
London
WC1H 0EG

About the event

The lecture will address the different processes of adjusting international human rights law to the challenges posed by new and emerging digital technology, including the re-interpretation of existing human rights to cover the needs and interests of individuals impacted by digital products and services, the introduction of new digital human rights and the expansion of obligations to respect and ensure human rights to technology companies.

Ultimately, the lecture will discuss the question of “fit” between international human rights law created to deal with a specific set of challenges posed by the modern state and the post-modern challenges posed by the political, economic and technological structures of the digital age.

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About the speaker

Professor Yuval Shany is the Hersch Lauterpacht Chair in International Law and former Dean of the Law Faculty of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He was a member of the UN Human Rights Committee from 2013 to 2020 (and served between 2018-2019 as Chair of the Committee). He currently teaches at the Centre for Transnational Legal Studies at King’s College in London and is a visiting research fellow at the Ethics and AI Institute at Oxford University.

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