Mónica García-Salmones Rovira's guest appearances

Mónica García-Salmones Rovira

LCIL International Law Seminar Series

Sarah Williams

James Loeffler

Michael Wood

Adam Branch

Rita Kesselring

Dame Sally Davies

Marc Weller

Andrew Lang

Philippe Sands

Rachel Murray

Andrew Williams

Stephen Humphreys

Frank Berman

Catherine Barnard

Ellen O'Connell

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Lecture summary: Recent literature on human rights has proposed to go beyond the dualism of essentialist versus historicist conceptions of human rights. It is argued that ‘the history of human rights’ has to be expanded as ‘to include a moral history of the century after the Enlightenment’ (Hoffmann). This lecture highlights as well the inquiry of continuities within the epistemological framework of human rights and natural rights.  I am employing for this purpose historical understandings of natural rights and the role they played in the history of international law. The theologian-jurist Francisco de Vitoria and the jurist-theologian Hugo Grotius, the so-called fathers of the discipline of international law, and later other authors, such as John Locke, became famous for detaching natural subjective rights from their original roots in individual moral theology and relocating them in the context of encounters between peoples.The fact that in doing so they contributed to a new form of natural law and arguably founded international law meant that their moral-epistemological endeavours bore significant fruit.

Lecture summary: Recent literature on human rights has proposed to go beyond the dualism of essentialist versus historicist conceptions of human rights. It is argued that ‘the history of human rights’ has to be expanded as ‘to include a moral history of the century after the Enlightenment’ (Hoffmann). <br><br>This lecture highlights as well the inquiry of continuities within the epistemological framework of human rights and natural rights.  I am employing for this purpose historical understandings of natural rights and the role they played in the history of international law. The theologian-jurist Francisco de Vitoria and the jurist-theologian Hugo Grotius, the so-called fathers of the discipline of international law, and later other authors, such as John Locke, became famous for detaching natural subjective rights from their original roots in individual moral theology and relocating them in the context of encounters between peoples.<br><br>The fact that in doing so they contributed to a new form of natural law and arguably founded international law meant that their moral-epistemological endeavours bore significant fruit.

LCIL Friday Lecture: Human Rights, Natural Rights and the Ordering of Conquest by Mónica García-Salmones Rovira 