UNL Human Rights & ActInCourts Virtual Workshops

These virtual workshops are convened by ActInCourts and the UNL Forsythe Family Program on Human Rights and Humanitarian Affairs, which convenes emerging and established scholars to discuss new works of research. Below is an archive of past workshops.

Workshop No. 9: Origins of LGBTQ Human Rights Norm

November 21, 2022
Dr. Ayodeji Perrin presented her paper “Sodomy Decriminalization Legal Mobilization and the Origins of LGBTQ Human Rights Norms.”
Workshop No. 8: Individual Petitions’ Effect on Human Rights

September 23, 2022
Rachel Schoner presented her paper “Naming and Shaming in the Human Rights Committee: Individual Petitions’ Effect on Human Rights.”
Workshop No. 7: Direct and Indirect Pressure on LGBT Rights

April 28, 2022
Gino Pauselli presented his paper “When Pressure Leads to Progress and Backlash: Direct and Indirect Pressure on LGBT Rights.”
Workshop No. 6: WHO Guidance and State Response

February 17, 2022
Audrey Comstock presented her paper “Threats and Commitments: International Tribunals and Domestic Trials in Peace Negotiations.”
Workshop No. 5: The Ferguson Uprising, Shadow Reporting, and Human Rights Experimentalism

November 18, 2021
Joel Pruce presented his paper,”The Ferguson Uprising, Shadow Reporting, and Human Rights Experimentalism.”
Workshop No. 4: International Tribunals and Domestic Trials in Peace Negotiations

September 28, 2021
Genevieve Bates presented her paper “Threats and Commitments: International Tribunals and Domestic Trials in Peace Negotiations.”
Workshop No. 3: Comparative Law by International Means

February 22, 2021
Jorges Contesse (Associate Professor of Law, Rutgers Law School) presented his paper “Comparative Law by International Means.”
Workshop No. 2: Legitimacy, Indeterminacy, and the Power of Legal Interpreters in the International Criminal Court

December 7, 2020
Research by Lucrecia Garcia Iommi
Workshop No. 1: Premise, Promise, Power, Paucity: Governing European States’ Treatment of Irregular Migrants Through International Criminal Law

October 19, 2020
Research by Kerstin Bree Carlson