Katharine Young

Professor Katharine Young is an Associate Professor of Law at Boston College Law School. She is currently working, with Professor Malcolm Langford, on “The Oxford Handbook of Economic and Social Rights.” A podcast with Professor Young about the Commission was recently published by the American Society of International Law.

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Trumping Human Rights in the United States? The Commission on Unalienable Rights

Trumping Human Rights in the United States? The Commission on Unalienable Rights

It is a common and very productive exercise, within contemporary philosophical or anthropological inquires, to examine the foundations and content of human rights. What’s more unusual is for a nation-state to singlehandedly pursue ...