Lunch seminar with Lavinia Francesconi
Equality and non-discrimination in the Inter-American Human Rights Regime
Within the Inter-American legal space there is a community of practices actively seeking to “confront violence, social exclusion, and weak institutions through legal means” (Urueña 2021, von Bogdandy and Urueña 2020). Indeed, the Inter-American Human Rights System is well-known for its jurisprudence on systematic and systemic issues in the region. Since the early 2000s the institution, its (hard and soft) laws, and its decisions have been specializing on mostly discriminated groups, such as women, indigenous peoples, afro-descendants, disabled persons, elder people etc.
The PhD thesis examines the structure and application of the principle (and rules) on equality and non-discrimination in the Inter-American Human Rights Regime. In addition to the doctrinal description of the institutions and laws related to equality and non-discrimination, empirical tools will be deployed to determine patterns in the application of these rules within the system’s decisions. Indeed, the legal system is conceived as a complex one, composed of the interaction of different entities, norms, and decisions, where patterns can be detected through network analysis. The cases related to equality and non-discrimination are also comprehended as complex, meaning that different social systems and social characteristics can be involved in a discriminatory situation.
The lunch seminar will be the opportunity to discuss the thesis’s configuration and its main advancements.
Speaker bio
Lavinia Francesconi is a PhD candidate at the law department of Aix-Marseille University. She graduated cum laude from the Law faculty of the University of Bologna, and she holds an LL.M. in Public International Law from Leiden University, and a Diploma in International Human Rights Law from the University of Chile.
Ms. Francesconi acts as a legal counsel and researcher on international law for different organizations, among others, at the Aix-Global Justice Clinic. Previously, she has been collaborating in international and academic institutions, both in Europe and in South America.
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