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| Kathryn Sikkink
February 18, 2021, Video: "Kathryn Sikkink, Ryan Family Professor of Human Rights Policy at Harvard Kennedy School, spoke about her book, ‘The Hidden Face of Rights: Towards a Politics of Responsibilities’ (Yale University Press 2020) at Trinity College Dublin School of Law on 18 February 2021."
| Michael Stein
February 16, 2021, Video: "The struggles by persons with disabilities for social and economic justice have been articulated increasingly within a rights framework. The most prominent expression of this strategy was the adoption in 2006 by the United Nations of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD), a holistic human rights treaty that contains not only civil and political rights, but also recognizes economic and social…
| David Harris
January 27, 2021, Video:"Join Harvard faculty and fellow alumni for a conversation on the past, present, and future of reparations efforts and why it's important for our future."
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| David Deming | Jennifer Hochschild | Nathaniel Hendren | Will Dobbie | Daniel Schneider | Sandra Susan Smith | Danielle Allen | Cornell William Brooks | Dani Rodrik | Jason Furman
January 2021, Video; "Each week five experts give their 8- minute pitch for a big question, important finding, promising policy solution, or research frontier for the next generation of work on inequality."
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"This week: 6 Big Ideas. David J. Deming (Harvard Kennedy School) leads the…
| Jesse Fried
November 30, 2020, Paper: "Alibaba, the e-commerce giant that completed a record-breaking IPO in the United States in 2014 and in mid-2020 was valued at over $500 billion, is one of hundreds of China-based U.S.-listed firms whose controlling insiders are largely “law-proof”: the corporate and securities laws governing these firms are effectively unenforceable because the firms’ insiders, records, and assets are in China. Legal remedies thus…
| Stefanie Stantcheva
November 2020, Paper: "How well do people know their social position relative to others in society and how does their position shape their views on the fairness of unequal outcomes? We provide new answers to these long-standing questions by combining survey-elicited perceptions on income positions and fairness views for a large, representative sample of prime-age people in Denmark with administrative data on their actual income positions, income…
| Sushma Raman | Mathias Risse
November 12, 2020, Video: "Please join the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy for its signature weekly series this fall, The Fierce Urgency of Now, featuring Black, Indigenous, People of Color scholars, activists, and community leaders, and experts from the Global South. Hosted and facilitated by Sushma Raman and Mathias Risse, the series also aligns with a course they will co-teach this fall at the Harvard Kennedy School on Economic Justice:…
| Mathias Risse
October 23, 2020, Video: "Harvard Book Store's virtual event series and the Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics welcome Mathias Risse—Lucius N. Littauer Professor of Philosophy and Public Administration and Director of the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy at Harvard University—for a discussion of his latest book, On Justice: Philosophy, History, Foundations. He will be joined in conversation by Eric Beerbohm, Professor of Government and Faculty…
| David R. Williams
October 12, 2020, Paper, "The number of reported deaths from coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) in the US was nearly 205 000 on September 28, 2020.1 A month earlier, on August 13, 2020, a New York Times analysis of estimates from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported that across the US, at least 200 000…
| Mathias Risse
October 8, 2020, Video: "Please join the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy for the release of our report on Reimagining Rights and Responsibilities in the United States. We'll discuss the historical context in which this project was framed, recent developments around rollbacks and movements for expansion of rights, and policy recommendations for building a more robust commitment to rights and responsibilities around six broad areas, including…