All classes will be held in Room K262, CGIS North Building, 1737 Cambridge Street, Cambridge MA 02138, each morning and in Room S050, CGIS South Building, 1730 Cambridge Street, for lunch and the afternoon sessions.
Sunday, July 3, 2022 – Arrival in Boston and Settling In
Monday, July 4, 2022 – National holiday
This is a national holiday in the United States. Students will have the opportunity to attend the fireworks display on the Charles River
Tuesday, July 5, 2022 — Overview and Inaugural Lecture
9:00 am – 9:15 am Welcome and Opening Remarks
Stephen P. Marks, Director, Program on Human Rights in Development, François-Xavier Bagnoud Professor of Health and Human Rights, Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health, Summer School Co-director
9:15 am – 9:30 am Announcements and discussion of expectations
Kriti Sharma, Assistant Professor, Jindal Global Law School
- Mercy Deborah, Professor, Jindal Global Law School
9:30 am – 10:30 am Introduction and Course Overview
Melanie Adrian, Associate Professor, Department of Law and Legal Studies, Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada and Academic Coordinator of Week One
10:30 am – 11:30 am Human Rights: A Brief Introduction
Stephen P. Marks, Melanie Adrian
11:30 am – 12:00 pm Welcome from the Lakshmi Mittal and Family South Asia Institute
Hitesh M Hathi, Executive Director, The Lakshmi Mittal and Family South Asia Institute, Harvard University
Neha B. Joseph, Research Fellow, The Lakshmi Mittal and Family South Asia Institute
12:00 pm – 1:00 pm Lunch
1:00 pm – 3:00 pm Harvard International Office (HIO) Check in
Harvard University’s Smith Campus Center, 1350 Massachusetts Ave, Cambridge, MA 02138
3:15 pm – 4:00 pm Campus tour
Meet inside Harvard Yard outside of Lehman Hall/Dudley House
Wednesday, July 6, 2022 – Understanding Development
9:00 am – 10:30 am What is Development? A Participatory Exercise (1)
Spencer Henson, Professor in Food, Health and Development, Department of Food, Agricultural & Resource Economics, University of Guelph, Guelph, Canada.
10.30 am – 11.00 am Refreshment Break
11:00 am – 12:00 pm What is Development? A Participatory Exercise (2)
Spencer Henson
12:00 pm – 1:00 pm Lunch
1:00 pm – 3:00 pm Human Rights Indicators in Development: Definitions, Relevance and Application
Siobhán McInerney-Lankford, Counsel, Environment & International Law, Human Rights Legal Vice-Presidency, and International Law Legal, World Bank
Thursday, July 7, 2022 – Understanding Human Rights
9:00 am – 10:30 am The International Human Rights Architecture
Melanie Adrian
10:30 am – 10:45 am Refreshment Break
10:45 am – 12:00 pm Enacting Human Rights: The Case of the Right to Food
Melanie Adrian & Spencer Henson
12:00 pm – 1:00 pm Lunch
1:00 pm – 5:00 pm Applying the Right to Food to India
Spencer Henson & Melanie Adrian
Friday, July 8, 2022 – Human Rights in Practice: The Universal Periodic Review (UPR) Process
9:00 am – 10:00 am The Universal Periodic Review (UPR) Process
Melanie Adrian
10.00 am – 10.30 am The Universal Periodic Review of India: Issues, Challenges and Needed Actions (1)
Melanie Adrian & Spencer Henson
10.30 am – 10:45 am Refreshment Break
10:45 am – 12:00 pm: The Universal Periodic Review of India: Issues, Challenges and Needed Actions (2)
Melanie Adrian & Spencer Henson
12:00 pm – 1:00 pm Lunch
1:00 pm – 3:00 pm Group Presentations of Analysis of Universal Periodic Review of India
Melanie Adrian & Stephen Marks
Week Two: Social and Economic Issues
Monday, July 11, 2022 – Human Rights in Law and Society
9:00 am – 11:00 am The Human Rights, Development, and New Rights in Context
Hurst Hannum, Professor of International Law, Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy
11:00 am – 12:00 pm Integrating Rights-Based Approaches with Holistic Approaches for Social Development
Farah Shroff, Founder and Lead, Maternal and Infant Health Canada, School of Population and Public Health in the University of British Columbia
12:00 pm – 1:00 pm Lunch
1:00 pm – 2:30 pm The Role of the Legal Profession in Advancing Human Rights and Development
Jayanth Krishnan, Milt and Judi Stewart Professor of Law and Director, Milt and Judi Stewart Center on the Global Legal Profession, Indiana University Maurer School of Law
2:30 pm – 3:45 pm Technology and Human Rights in the Digital Age
Natalie Gyenes, Research Director, Digital Health Lab Meedan, Canada
4:00 pm – 5:00 pm Special Lecture: Are Human Rights Universal?
Dr. Shashi Tharoor, Member of Parliament, Lok Sabha, Former Under Secretary-General of the United Nations
Belfer Case Study Room, CGIS South, Concourse Level
Tuesday, July 12, 2022 – Human Rights and Global Challenges
9:00 am – 10:15 am Special Lecture: Human Rights and Development at a Time of Democratic Backsliding
Prof. Gudmundur Eiriksson, Professor and Executive Director, Centre for International Legal Studies, JGLS
10:15 am – 11:45 am Special Lecture: WTO, Trade & Human Rights: Understanding the Linkages and Overcoming the Frictions”
Dr. Mohan Kumar, Dean, Office of International Relations & Global Initiatives; Professor of Diplomacy, Jindal School of International Affairs, O.P. Jindal Global University
12:00 pm – 1:00 pm Lunch
1:00 pm – 3:00 pm Food and Water Security in the Context of Humanitarian Assistance
Deborah Hines, Co-Director, South North Nexus
Wednesday, July 13, 2022 – Indigenous People
10:00 am –11:45 am Approaching Indigenous Rights in Latin American: Law and Anthropology in applying International Norms, Social Movements, and Citizenship Claims
Theodore Macdonald, Lecturer in Social Studies, Harvard University
12:00 pm – 12:45 pm Lunch at Harvard Law School
12:45 pm – 1:30 pm Visit to Law School – Special Speaker
1:30 pm – 2:00 pm David B. Wilkins, Lester Kissel Professor of Law, Vice Dean for Global
Initiatives on the Legal Profession, Faculty Director of the Center on The Legal Profession, Harvard Law School
2:00 pm – 2:30 pm Dr. Shashi Tharoor, Special Lecture on “Law and the Idea of India”
Thursday, July 14, 2022 – Health and Migration
10:00 am –12:00 pm Indigenous Peoples and the Endogenous Development Perspective
Kriti Sharma
12:00 pm – 1:30 pm Lunch
1:30 pm – 3:30 pm Forced Migration in the Context of Global Migration: Policy, Rights and Livelihoods
Karen Jacobsen, Henry J. Leir Professor of Global Migration
The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy
Friday, July 15, 2022 – Climate Change, Gender and Health
9:00 Am – 10:30 am Climate Change, Development and Human Rights
Stephen Humphreys, Associate Professor of International Law, London School of Economics (virtual)
10:30 am –12:00 pm Gender in Development
Jeni Klugman, Managing Director, Georgetown Institute of Women, Peace and Security and Fellow, Women and Public Policy Program, HKS (virtual)
12:00 pm – 1:00 pm Lunch
1:00 pm – 2:30 pm The Emergence and Expansion of the Right to Health in International Law
Stephen P. Marks
Week Three: Global Political Economy
Monday, July 18, 2022 – Trade and Children’s Rights
10:00 am– 12:00 pm Trade, Investment, Human Rights and Development
Joel Trachtman, Professor, Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy
12:00 pm– 1:00 pm Lunch
1:00 pm – 3:00 pm The Convention on the Rights of the Child and the Application of its Principles in Law and Development
Elizabeth D. Gibbons, Director, Child Protection Certificate Program,
François-Xavier Bagnoud Center for Health and Human Rights
3:00 pm – 3:30 pm Refreshment Break
Tuesday, July 19, 2022 – Education and Extreme Poverty
10:00 am – 12:00 am Education in the context of the Sustainable Development Goals and Human Rights
David Archer, Head of Education at ActionAid International (virtual)
12:00 pm – 1:00 pm Lunch
1:00 pm – 3:00 pm The Realities of Poverty and Responses to Social Injustice
Sabina Faiz Rashid, PhD, Dean and Professor, BRAC James P Grant School of Public Health, BRAC University, Bangladesh
3:00 pm – 3:30 pm Refreshment Break
3:30 pm – 5:00 pm Final Presentation Preparation
Wednesday, July 20, 2022 – Human Rights and Development at the UN
9:00 am – 10:30 am Relevance and Effectiveness of the UN in Advancing Human Rights and Development
Leonardo Castilho, Human Rights Officer, Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights
10:30 am – 11:00 am Refreshment Break
11:00 am – 12:30 pm Human Rights Diplomacy from the Inside
E. Egriselda Aracely González López,
Permanent Representative of El Salvador to the United Nations
12:30 pm – 1:30 pm Lunch
1:00 PM – 3:00 PM Study and reading time
Thursday, July 21, 2022 – Special Guests and Student Presentations
9:00 am – 10:00 am Public Health Perspectives on Human Rights in Development
Special guest Ravikumar Chockalingam, M.D., MPH
VA Medical Center, St. Louis, Missouri
10:00 am – 11:00 am Role and Responsibilities of Universities in Promoting Sustainable Development
Special guest Ashwin Fernandes, Regional Director – MENA & South Asia, QS Quacquarelli Symonds
11:00 am – 12:00 pm Study and reading time
12:00 pm – 1:00 pm Lunch
1:00 pm – 5:00 pm Final Student Presentations
Friday, July 22, 2022 Student Presentation and Concluding Banquet
10:00 am – 12:00 pm Final Student Presentations
12:00 pm – 1:00 pm Lunch
1:00 pm – 3:00 pm Final Student Presentations
5:30 pm – 8:30 pm. Concluding banquet and Awarding of Certificates (Harvard Faculty Club)
Special Guest:Raj Kumar, Vice-Chancellor, JGU
Keynote speaker:
Sushma Raman, Executive Director, Carr Center on Human Rights Policy
Harvard Kennedy School
Saturday July 23, 2022 – Departure
Departure from Logan Airport after Breakfast
