Conference: “Security: Changes and Uncertainties”

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

Target audience: students, professionals, attorneys, practitioners.
This event, which is intended to be multidisciplinary—although it will retain a predominantly legal focus—will aim to explore the concept of security through three half-day sessions centered on the following themes:

1. What are the contours of security? Where does this heightened need for security come from? What is the political and legal discourse on security?
2. In which areas is this need particularly evident? (environment, health, counterterrorism, among others)
3. Can we envisage the emergence of a genuine “fundamental right to security”? The assertion of a fundamental right to security—which remains a subject of debate—raises significant normative issues and is also met with concerns and criticism regarding its scope and definition.

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