Professor Nehal Bhuta co-organises major international human rights conference in New York
Fri 18 January 2019
Nehal Bhuta, Chair of Public International Law at Edinburgh Law School, has co-organised "The Struggle for Human Rights: Law, Politics, Practice," a two-day international conference on cutting-edge issues in human rights and practice, at New York University from 17-18 January 2019.
The conference, co-organised with scholars from Brazil, Canada, and NYU and Columbia Law Schools in New York, brought together some of the world's leading scholars and practitioners of human rights, to honour NYU Law School Professor Philip Alston's 40 year contribution to international human rights law. The conference addressed such pressing contemporary issues as human rights and the rise of populism, human rights and big data, and the human rights obligations of international organisations.
Alston, who recently visited the United Kingdom in his capacity as UN Special Rapporteur on Extreme Poverty and Human Rights, is one of the world's best known and most influential human rights law scholars and practitioners.
The conference was a veritable who's who of the international human rights world, and included the participation of Dr Euan MacDonald of Edinburgh Law School, in addition to Prof Bhuta.
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