Announcing the Global School Human Rights Litigation
Course, hosted by the O�Neill
Institute & Harvard FXB
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Announcing the Global School Health Rights Litigation
Course, organized by the O�Neill
Institute & Harvard FXB
The O�Neill
Institute for National and Global Health Law at Georgetown University is
pleased to announce that it will offer the Global School Health Rights
Litigation course in conjunction with Harvard University�s FXB Center for Health and Human Rights (http://georgetown.us5.list-manage.com/track/click?u=5556647df8c0be7cf0da07db2&id=8ba506cd69&e=852d911e55%22%20%5Ct%20%22_blank) going forward. The course will be co-directed by Alicia Ely
Yamin, Policy Director of Harvard FXB, and Oscar Cabrera, Executive Director of
the O'Neill Institute.
Harvard FXB is a world leader in building a conceptual
basis to advocate for the right to health and for human rights-based approaches
to the development of health policy. It
is a tremendous honor and pleasure for the O�Neill
Institute to undertake this collaboration with Harvard FXB.
The course will be offered annually at the Georgetown
University Law Center campus in Washington, DC.
The course�s
curriculum will change each year, covering new topics that reflect important
trends in the area of health rights litigation.
Additional information about the 2016 Global School Health Rights
Litigation course can be found below. We welcome your promotion of the course
to colleagues and students for whom you believe it might be of interest.
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The O�Neill
Institute and Harvard FXB will host the 2016 Global School Health Rights
Litigation course from June 13th - 17th at Georgetown University Law Center in
Washington, DC. This one-week intensive
course offers participants an opportunity to develop specialist-level knowledge
in relation to litigating health-related rights at the national, regional, and
international levels.
During the course, globally renowned experts will lecture
on a range topics, including: sexual and reproductive health and rights; rights
issues arising in health-care settings; palliative care; approaches to
health-care rationing and factors to consider in assessing the equity impacts
of judgments; access to medicines and intellectual property; judicial
legitimacy in deciding issues with budgetary and policy implications; and
judicial effectiveness and impact of judgments. Confirmed instructors include
professors from the University of the Witwatersrand (Johannesburg), Harvard
University (USA), and Georgetown University (USA), as well as leading
practitioners from Human Rights Watch and the World Bank.
The course is conducted in English, is highly
participatory, and uses case-based teaching and group exercises extensively. It
will also include a moot court competition, opportunities for networking, and
field trips within Washington, DC. Past participants left the course
encouraged, enlightened, and well-connected. The course is designed for PhD
students, scholars, practitioners (e.g., law, public health, human rights or
development), policy-makers, and advanced master�s
students. The number of participants is restricted, and fellowships are
limited.
Applications are available here (http://www.emailmeform.com/builder/form/b59Jeydf9Pgv205Sp6zb)
and are due April 1, 2016. Additional information about the course can be found
here (http://www.law.georgetown.edu/oneillinstitute/summerprogram/2015/2016SummerInstitute.cfm)
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