Safety: changes and uncertainties" symposium

Thursday, October 19 and Friday, October 20, 2017 from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m.
Faculty of Law and Political Science, Amphi D

Target audience: students, professionals, lawyers, practitioners.
The aim of this event, which is intended to be multi-disciplinary even though it will retain a predominantly legal dimension, will be to examine the notion of safety through three half-day sessions focusing on the following themes:

1. What does safety mean? Where does the heightened need for security come from? What is the political and legal discourse on security?
2. What are the areas in which this need is most keenly felt (environment, health, counter-terrorism, etc.)?
3. Is it possible to envisage the emergence of a genuine "fundamental right to security"? The assertion of a fundamental right to security, which is still being debated, presents considerable normative stakes, and is also accompanied by fears and criticisms about its scope and contours.

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