Announcement: Conference: Rising Socio-economic Inequalities - The Potential and Limits of Law
/The Global Centre for Democratic Constitutionalism and the Socio-economic Inequalities and Poverty Discrimination Working Group welcome you to join online to the conference “Rising Socio-economic Inequalities: The Potential and Limits of Law”, where we will bring together diverse voices from the legal community to address critical issues on poverty discrimination.
As wealth concentrates in fewer hands and poverty deepens across communities, this timely gathering explores urgent questions:
1. Can legal systems effectively combat rising inequality?
2. How does poverty discrimination undermine democratic participation?
3. What untapped legal tools exist to protect fundamental rights to housing, food, and education?
These are some of the issues that we expect to tackle in this full day conference, with panelists from all over the world joining us for this discussion.
Programme
09:45 Session 1
Chaired by Michael Marcondes Smith, University of Antwerp
● Michael Marcondes Smith, University of Antwerp The (limited) redistributive power of discrimination law: the role of socio-economic grounds of discrimination
● Sarah Ganty, Yale / UCLouvain On the Existential Tension Between Merit and Antidiscrimination Law
● Gideon Basson, University of Oxford Disrupting Meritocratic Ideology in Educational Decision-Making: A Rights-based and Decolonial Examination of Merit-based School Segregation in Guyana
11:40 Session 2
Chaired by Tainá Garcia Maia, CHREN
● Tainá Garcia Maia, CHREN Inequality and Poverty in Brazil: A Judicial Response to a Socio-Political Challenge
● Ishita Sharma, Rajiv Gandhi National University of Law Constitutional Equality and the Limits of Legal Intervention in Socio-Economic Inequality: A Comparative Analysis of India and the United Kingdom
● Justin Winchester, University of Oxford Recognition versus Redistribution? Positive equality duties in conflict in the United Kingdom
● Ian Browne, UCL The Socio-Economic Duty in the (UK) Equality Act 2010
14:20 Words from the Special Rapporteurship on Economic, Social, Cultural, and Environmental Rights, Inter American Commission of Human Rights
14.30 Session 3
Chaired by Stefania Fiorella Rainaldi Redon, Queen Mary, University of London
● Stefania Fiorella Rainaldi Redon, Queen Mary, University of London Is the concept of structural discrimination used by the Inter American Court of Human Rights useful to address poverty?
● Pamela S. Smith Castro, Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú Poverty and Disability in Peru: An Analysis of Intertwined Concepts Pontificia Universidad
● Carla Elizabeth Cabanillas, University of Erfurt ‘Restorative Extraction’ and the Limits Mandatory Human Rights Due Diligence Laws: a case study on struggle at the margins of the Peruvian copper mines
● Siân McGibbon, UCL Power by proxy: securing socio-economic justice in the data-driven state
16:15 Session 4
Chaired by Edward Perez, UCL
● Edward Perez, UCL Addressing poverty through remedial powers
● Eva Pils, CHREN Challenging autocratic developmentalism: an Examination of poverty reduction narratives
● Maike Middeler, Helmut Schmidt University/University of the Federal Armed Forces, Hamburg Human Rights-Based Commemoration and Economic Violence
● Rishika Sahgal, University of Birmingham Housing rights from below: people, procedure and participation
18:05 Keynote Speech
Colm O'Cinneide, UCL
19:00 End
This event is open to attendees online only via Zoom Webinar - Register here.
To access the papers, please send an email to edward.perez.23@ucl.ac.uk.