Human Rights Backlash: The Judicial Story

Please join us for a talk with András Sajó, former judge at the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR). The ECHR has a jurisdiction of 800,000,000 people. It was the first international court where individual human rights complaints were judicially considered, rendering enforceable judgments against sovereign states. The ECHR has changed the law in Europe for the better in many ways. Recently, however, it has been responding to the populist mood that reclaims state sovereignty, and judicial doctrines of the ECHR seem to have moved to deferentialism in the name of “subsidiarity.” The talk will discuss this development within the broader context of human rights fatigue.

Speaker: András Sajó, former judge at the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR)

Sponsors: RCC; Institute for Global Law & Policy; HLS Adovcates for Human Rights, the Harvard Human Rights Journal; the Harvard European Law Association.