Presentation



This colloquium is part of the activities in celebration of the 30th anniversary of CES. The goal of this international colloquium on law and justice is to reflect on one of the most relevant and broader issues of contemporary sociology of law: human rights and global justice. The focus is on the major challenges facing the liberal and Western paradigm of human rights and global justice in the light of collective struggles for equality and for recognition of difference. The North-South relations are another focus of the colloquium, with special attention on the struggles and debates taking place in the European, Latin-American, Caribbean, and African contexts.

Drawing on examples of struggles over the rights to equality and difference in specific contexts of the global North and South, the colloquium aims to address, in a critical and pluralistic manner, some themes that question the conception of “global justice” and the dominant paradigm of human rights. Both of them tend to universalize one single model of justice and law, based on principles of universality and neo-liberal ideals. Each session of the colloquium is designed to problematize this model in different ways, addressing issues that can contribute to the debate on the relations, differences and similarities between the struggles on human rights in the global North and South, including the mobilization, the reconstruction or the rejection of the dominant paradigm of human rights and global justice. This colloquium will also be an opportunity for CES to critically reflect on its own theoretical perspectives, the state of its empirical research and knowledge production, as well as its social intervention in the field of human rights and global justice.


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