Justiciability of economic, social and cultural rights: challenges and potentials for rights, equality and social justice
The Centre for Human Rights and Legal pluralism welcomes O'Brien Fellow in Residence Assistant Professor Dorothy Estrada-Tanck, University of Murcia, Spain.
This talk will focus particularly on the 2008 UN Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, and select case studies of individual communications presented to the competent UN Committee on violations of these rights. By doing so, the talk will also touch on how legal categories promote/allow inclusion, exclusion and vulnerability around different axis, such as migratory status, gender, socio-economic condition, and disability, and the ways in which the law may (or not) work in favour of the effective realization of human rights, equality and social justice.
About the speaker
Dorothy Estrada-Tanck is Assistant Professor (tenure-track) of International Law and International Relations at the University of Murcia, Spain, and co-Director of the Legal Clinic of its Faculty of Law. She holds a PhD in Law from the European University Institute, an MSc in Political Theory from the London School of Economics and Political Science, and a law degree (Mexico City). She enjoys broad academic and professional experience in the United Nations, State bodies and NGOs in Mexico, Italy, the US and Spain, focusing on issues of human rights, migration, gender, and socio-economic justice. She has published extensively in English and Spanish, and she is the author of Human Security and Human Rights under International Law: The Protections Offered to Persons Confronting Structural Vulnerability (Oxford: Hart Publishing 2016), which received the Best Book Prize 2017 of the Inter-American Bar Association Washington, D.C.
