The Right to Science - Book launch

Description from Cambridge University's website: 

That everyone has a human right to enjoy the benefits of the progress of science and its applications comes as a surprise to many. Nevertheless, this right is pertinent to numerous issues at the intersection of science and society: open access; 'dual use' science; access to ownership and dissemination of data, knowledge, methods and the affordances and applications thereof; as well as the role of international co-operation, human dignity and other human rights in relation to science and its products. As we advance towards superintelligence, quantum computing, drone swarms, and life-extension technology, serious policy decisions will be made at the national and international levels. The human right to science provides an ideal tool to do so, backed up as it is by international law, political heft, and normative weight. This book is the first sustained attempt at turning this wonder of foresight into an actionable and justiciable right. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.

  • Offers an exploration of a core cultural right: the right to science to give legally trained readers useful background information concerning the impact of the right to science on people's lives
  • Proposes the right to science as an empowering tool which will appeal to those who believe in rights talk and the rule of law as promising and aspirational endeavors, as well as those working in aid, development, global justice, science diplomacy and those looking for an actionable and justiciable tool for the furtherance of their human rights causes
  • Provides examples of inter-disciplinary and multi-disciplinary science in action, showing how different disciplines can interact
  • This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core

Book launch, April 21

15:30 Welcoming remarks, Professor Helle Porsdam, University of Copenhagen

15:45 Dr. Sebastian Porsdam Mann, University of Oxford: The Right to Science: Then and Now – An Interdisciplinary Endeavor

16:00 Professor Daniel Esty, Yale Law School: Comments and reflections on The Right to Science: Then and Now

16:15 Q & A

17:00 Goodbye

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