The Case for a New Right to a Human Decision Under International Human Rights Law
The presentation discusses the problem of quality control for new human rights from one specific perspective – review and analysis of the actual justifications provided by norm entrepreneurs and law makers seeking to advance the recognition of new human rights through normative instruments (laws, treaties, declarations etc.) – and considers the application of this particular form of quality control to one putative digital human right – the right to a human decision. The quality control criteria presented here for evaluating the justifications proffered for new human rights – moral claims and considerations, problem analysis and broad political support – are mostly descriptive. They identify and explain how new human rights have been de facto justified in the past. They do not propose a new normative approach for how candidate human rights should be justified. In the same vein, the discussion of the right to a human decision explores mostly how such a right has actually been justified, up until now, and whether such a justification comports to the existing pattern of justificatory structures used in international human rights law.
Date: 22 November 2023, 12:30 (Wednesday, 7th week, Michaelmas 2023)
Venue: Please register to receive venue details
Speaker: Professor Yuval Shany (Hebrew University)
Organiser contact email address: aiethics@philosophy.ox.ac.uk
Hosts: Dr Charlotte Unruh (University of Oxford), Professor John Tasioulas (University of Oxford)
Part of: Ethics in AI Lunchtime Seminars
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Booking url: https://www.oxford-aiethics.ox.ac.uk/ethics-ai-lunchtime-seminars-case-new-right-human-decision-under-international-human-rights-law
Booking email: aiethics@philosophy.ox.ac.uk
Cost: Free
Audience: Public
Editors: Marie Watson, Lauren Czerniawska