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.
Week One: Conceptual and Definitional Issues
Monday July 2nd- Reading Preparation
11:00 am – 12:00 pm Check in at HIO
12:00 pm– 4:00 pm The afternoon will be devoted to reading in preparation for the first week of classes
Tuesday July 3rd – Course overview
10:00 am – 10:30 am Announcements
Sushant Chandra, Assistant Professor and Assistant Director, Clinical Program, Jindal Global Law School
Alliya Anjum, Assistant Professor, Jindal Global Law School
10:30 am– 11:30 am Welcome and Course Overview
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 Director
11:20 am– 12:00 pm Discussion of expectation
12:00 pm– 1:00 pm Lunch
2:00 pm – 6:00 pm Library Tour and Discussion of Research – what is expected
Sushant Chandra and Alliya Anjum
Wednesday July 4th – National Holiday
Thursday July 5th – Setting the Context
9:30 am– 10:30 am Introductions
Melanie Adrian, Associate Professor of Human Rights Law at Carleton University and Academic Coordinator of Week One
10:30 am– 12:00 pm Basic Concepts of Human Rights and Sustainable Development
Stephen P. Marks and Spencer Henson, Professor in Food, Health and Development, University of Guelph, Canada; Professorial Fellow, Institute of Development Studies, UK
12:00 pm – 1:00 pm Lunch
1:00 pm– 2:00 pm Understanding Human Rights across Disciplines
Melanie Adrian
2:00 pm– 2:15 pm Refreshment Break
2:15 pm– 3:15 pm Group discussion on topics covered during the day
Melanie Adrian, moderator, assisted by Spencer Hansen and Stephen Marks
Friday July 6th – Understanding Human Rights
9:00 am– 10:30 am The Lasting Utopia: A Moderately Radical Approach to Human Rights.
Hurst Hannum, Professor of International Law, Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy
10:30 am– 10:45 am Refreshment Break
10:45 am—12:00 pm Simulation of India and Reports of Special Procedures and the May 2017 Universal Periodic Review (UPR) of India
Alice Han, MD MSc FRCSC, MPH, Melanie Adrian and Stephen Marks, moderators
12:00 pm-1:00 pm Lunch
1:00 pm-2:30 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)
2:30 pm – 2:45 pm Refreshment Break
3:15 pm – 4:10 pm Discussion of the relationship between economic and human rights approaches to development
Week Two: Social and Economic Issues
Monday July 9th – Understanding Development
9:00 am– 10:30 am What is Development? A Participatory Exercise
Spencer Henson, Professor in Food, Health and Development, University of Guelph, Canada; Professorial Fellow, Institute of Development Studies, UK
10.30 am– 10:45 am Refreshment Break
10.45 am– 12.00 pm What is Development? Alternative Perspectives
Spencer Henson
12:00 pm– 1:00 pm Lunch
1:00 pm– 2:30 pm Violence against Women and Girls from the Perspective of Human Rights in Development
Alice Han
2:30 pm– 3:00 pm Refreshment Break with discussion.
Tuesday July 10th – Food and Water
9:00 am – 11:00 pm Food and Nutrition Security: The Need for Local and Global Action
Spencer Henson
11:00 am– 11:15 am Refreshment Break
11:15 Am – 12:00 pm Corporate Social Responsibility as a Human Rights Issue in India
Summer school teaching staff
12:00 pm– 1:00 pm Lunch
1:00 pm– 2:00 pm Tour of Harvard University
2:30 pm -3:30 pm Information Session at Harvard Law School
Wednesday July 11th – Social Mobilization and the Right to Development
9:30 am– 11:00 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
11:00 am – 12:00 pm Discussion
12:00 pm – 1:00 pm Lunch
1:00 pm – 2:00 pm The Emergence and Expansion of the Right to Health in International Law
Stephen P. Marks
2:00 pm – 2:30 pm The Emergence and Demise of the Right to Development
Stephen P. Marks
Thursday July 12th – Forced Migration, Displacement and Sustainable Development
9:00 am – 11:00 am Responses to Forced Migration: Applying a Livelihoods Perspective
Professor Karen Jacobsen, Henry J. Leir Professor of Global Migration, The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy
11:00 am– 11:15 am Refreshment Break
11:15 am – 12:00 pm Discussion
12:00 pm– 1:00 pm Lunch
1:00 pm – 3:00 pm Migration, Displacement, and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)
Daniel Naujoks, School of International and Public Affairs, Columbia University, and Columbia Law School
Friday July 13th – Disability and Health Rights
9:00 am– 11:00 am Rights of Persons with Disabilities in the Context of Development
Michael Stein, Executive Director, Harvard Law School Project on Disability, Visiting Professor, Harvard Law School and Janet Lord, Senior Fellow, Harvard Law School Project on Disability
11:00 am– 11:30 am Refreshment Break
11:30 am –12:00 pm Discussion
12:00 pm– 1:00 pm Lunch
Week Three: Global Political Economy
Monday July 16th – Trade and Water
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- 2:30pm The Human Right to Water and Sanitation and the Sustainable Development Goals
Sharmila Murthy, Assistant Professor of Law, Suffolk University
2:30 pm– 2:45 pm Refreshment Break
2:45 pm –4:15 pm TEDx film: What the World can learn from the Kumbh Mela
Professor Tarun Khanna, Director, South Asia Institute, Harvard
Discussion moderated by Sharmila Murthy
Tuesday July 17th – Education, Extreme Poverty and Business
9:00 am– 10:30 am Education in the context of the Sustainable Development Goals and Human Rights
Fernando M. Reimers, Ford Foundation Professor of Practice in International Education, Harvard Graduate School of Education
10:30 am– 12:00 am Extreme Poverty
Cristina Diez Sagüillo, Director of International Relations Training, International Movement ATD Fourth World
12:00 pm– 1:00 pm Lunch
1:00 pm– 3:00 pm Business and Human Rights
Malcolm Rogge, J.D., M.E.S., B.A. S.J.D candidate Harvard Law School, Fulbright Scholar
Wednesday July 18th – Children’s Rights and India-China Relations
9:00 am – 11:00 am 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
11:00 am– 12:00 pm Public Health Perspectives on Human Rights in Development
Special guest, Ravikumar Chockalingam, M.D., MPH
12:00 pm– 1:00 pm Lunch
1:00 pm– 3:00 pm Human Rights and Development Issues in India-China Relations
Oma Lee, Policy specialist in Chinese charity law and philanthropy
6:30 pm – 9:00 pm Joint dinner with students from the JGU summer programs at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy and Harvard
Thursday July 19th – Student Presentations
9:00 am – 11:00 am Study and reading time
11:00 am – 12:00 pm Final Student Presentations
12:00 pm – 1:00 pm Lunch
1:00 pm – 5:00 pm Final Student Presentations
Evening Writing Time
Friday July 20th – Student Presentation and Concluding Banquet
9:00 am – 12:00 pm Final Student Presentations
12:00 pm – 1:00 pm Lunch
1:00 pm– 4:00 pm Final Student Presentations
6:00 pm– 10:00 pm Concluding banquet and awarding of certificates (Harvard Faculty Club)
Special Guest: Raj Kumar, Vice-Chancellor, JGU