Spring 2012
- Exploring the Arctic from Space
- What has Facebook done to us?
- What has Facebook done to us?
- Is complex life a freak accident?
- The triumph of Human Rights: dream or nightmare?
- The lure of the Kremlin: the court of Ivan the Terrible and global networks in the 16th century
- Cutting to cure cancer the 'the limits set by nature'
- The mystery of Master Humphrey: one of Dickens's most enigmatic characters
- John Bull vs Stinkomalee: Tory opposition in the early days of the University of London (now UCL)
- The metaphysics of concrete
- Genetic testing for risk of heart disease: fact or fiction?
- From Euclid to modern geometry: do the angles of a triangle really add up to 180?
- The Great American Novel: how and why?
- Patents stop people doing things. So why are they a good thing?
- Having it all: dispelling the myths about work and motherhood
- The search for genius and Einstein's brain
- 3D imaging: nanotechnology and the quest for better medical sensors
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The triumph of Human Rights: dream or nightmare?
3 February 2012
Thursday 26 January 2012
Colm O Cinneide (UCL Laws)
Since 1945, the language of human rights has acquired great potency and resonance. Human rights law plays an ever-greater role in national legal systems, and states are now expected to respect an ever-growing range of basic rights. However, a growing backlash can now be detected against the apparently ever-expanding scope of human rights guarantees. Has the concept of human rights been stretched too far? Has it departed from its core mission? This lecture addresses some of these questions, and make the case for an expansive conception of rights.
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