Third Annual NYU Law/UBA Conference
New Methods of Implementing, Monitoring, and Teaching ESCRFacultad de Derecho de la Universidad de Buenos AiresFigueroa Alcorta 2263 (Corner Of Pueyrredón) Salón Rojo, Main Floor Buenos Aires, Argentina
June 23–24, 2016
DAY 1 June 23Opening 10:00 – 10:30
MÓnica Pinto, Dean of the Law School, UBA
Marcelo Alegre, Research Secretary of the Law School, UBA; On-Site Faculty Director, NYU Law in Buenos Aires
Martín Sigal, Director, Human Rights Center of the Law School, UBA
Margaret Satterthwaite, Center for Human Rights and Global Justice, NYU Law
Panel 110:30 – 12:30
Measurement & Indicators
themes
° Concerns around progress indicators as a measurement tool for rights.
° Relevance, risks, possibilities, and limits of indicators as a tool for enforceability of ESCR.
° Links between indicators and justiciability of ESCR.
° Regional scenario: the role of the San Salvador Protocol Working Group, and the follow-up mechanisms of the Belém do Pará Convention. Indicators in the jurisprudence of the InterAmerican Court of Human Rights.
presentersLaura Pautassi, CONICET - UBA
Victor Abramovich, UBA - UNLa
Margaret Satterthwaite, NYU Law
Natalia Gherardi, Equipo Latinoamericano de Justicia y Género - ELA
12:30 – 14:30 Lunch
Panel 214:45 – 16:45
SDGs and Human Rights
themes
° What human rights lessons can we draw from the MDGs experience?
° What possibilities do they provide for advancing the agenda of objectives linked to structural inequality (ethnic, gender, socioeconomic, sexual division of labor) and reduction of poverty?
° What new consensus may they promote in the area of ESCR?
presentersAlicia Yamin, Georgetown University Law School
Paulo Abrão, Instituto de Políticas Públicas en Derechos Humanos Mercosur - IPPDH
María Nieves Rico, División Asuntos de Género - CEPAL
Mariela Belski, Amnesty International Argentina
16:45 – 17:30 Break
17:30 – 19:00 Book PresentationEl bienestar en brechas. Las políticas sociales en la Argentina de la posconvertibilidad.
Laura Pautassi and Gustavo Gamallo (Directors)
Alicia Yamin
Marcelo Alegre
María Nieves Rico
This event will take place in Sala Vélez Sarsfield
DAY 2 June 24Panel 310:30 – 12:30
Public Finance and ESCR
themes
° What type of institutional arrangements may contribute to having a tax expenditure regime respectful of HR?
° Challenges around the judicial intervention devoted to control tax expenditure policies which are not respectful of HR. (May the judiciary intervene when tax expenditure policies are not respectful of HR?; what type of intervention is justified?; what type of remedies may be allowed?)
presentersNikki Reisch, NYU Law
Martín Sigal, UBA
Sergio Chaparro Hernández, Dejusticia
Dalile Antúnez, Asociación Civil por la Igualdad y la Justicia - ACIJ
12:30 – 14:30 Lunch
Panel 414:45 – 16:45
Teaching Skills for ESCR Advocacy
themes
° Relevance and challenges of teaching skills to future HR lawyers.
° Methods, materials, and results.
presentersMargaret Satterthwaite, NYU Law
Paola Bergallo, UTDT
Martín Böhmer, UBA – NYU Law in Buenos Aires
María Florencia Saulino, UBA – NYU Law in Buenos Aires - UdeSA
Julieta Rossi, UBA - UNLa
Eduardo Bertoni, NYU Law in Buenos Aires