| Description: | The Global School on Socio-Economic Rights seeks to train a new generation of advocates across the globe in the skills necessary to advance the enjoyment of economic, social and cultural rights for all people. Each year I join human rights experts from around the world in teaching “The Advanced Course on the Justiciability of Economic, Social and Cultural Rights,” which takes place each November in Finland, at the Åbo Akademi University. This intensive course offers participants (approximately 40, from at least 20 different countries) an opportunity to develop specialist-level knowledge in the field of economic, social and cultural rights, with a particular focus on justiciability at the national, regional and international levels. It draws on a wealth of material from across the world in order to analyze existing institutionalized practices of interpretation and implementation of economic, social and cultural rights, and focuses on theoretical questions and practical issues, such as effective strategies and the impact of adjudication. The program is co-organized by the Åbo Akademi Institute for Human Rights, Åbo Akademi University; the Socio-Economic Rights & Administrative Justice Research Project (SERAJ), Stellenbosch University (South Africa); and the Norwegian Centre for Human Rights, University of Oslo. |
| Project/Activity Leader(s): | Tara Melish, Associate Professor and Director, Buffalo Human Rights Center |
| Unit: | Law School |
| Department: | Law School |
| City: | Turku |
| Country: | Finland |
| External Funding: | No |
| Start Date: | 2008 |
| End Date: | active |
| External Partners: | Åbo Akademi Institute for Human Rights, Åbo Akademi University; Socio-Economic Rights & Administrative Justice Research Project (SERAJ), Stellenbosch University (South Africa); Norwegian Centre for Human Rights, University of Oslo |
| Are UB students involved? | No |
