The Southern Center for Human Rights through our new First Amendment Lawyer Bridge by working to ensure that Georgians who express dissent are protected from criminalization. The Bridge project, housed within SCHR’s Public Policy Unit, will support the expansion and… Continue Reading
Kendall Thomas is a scholar of comparative constitutional law and human rights whose teaching and research focus on critical race theory, legal philosophy, feminist legal theory, and law and sexuality. Thomas is the co-founder and director of the Center for… Continue Reading
Primary Readings: Weil, Simone. The Need for Roots. 1952. Available here. Weil, Simone. On the Abolition of All Political Parties. 1957. Available here. Weil, Simone. “Reflections Concerning the Causes of Liberty and Social Oppression” in Oppression and Liberty. 1955. Available here. Weil,… Continue Reading
Bethania Assy is the Philosophy of Law Professor at Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro, and at State University of Rio de Janeiro. Philosophy PhD at New School for Social Research NY, USA. Bethania is: Co-coordinator of UNESCO Chair… Continue Reading
Primary Readings: Sales Diniz, Aldiva and Gilbert, Bruce. “Socialist Values and Cooperation in Brazil’s Landless Rural Workers’ Movement.” Latin American Perspectives, Issue 191, Vol. 40 No. 4, July 2013 19-34. Available here. Nicas, Jack. “If You Don’t Use Your Land,… Continue Reading
Chloe Howe Haralambous is a PhD Candidate in English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University specializing in migration and revolution in the 21st century. Her dissertation, The Rescue Plot: Politics, Policing and Subterfuge in the Mediterranean Migrant Corridor, examines fictional and forensic narratives of the sea passage… Continue Reading
Benjamin P. Davis is a Postdoctoral Fellow in African American Studies at Saint Louis University. He is the author of Choose Your Bearing: Édouard Glissant, Human Rights and Decolonial Ethics as well as of Simone Weil’s Political Philosophy: Field Notes from the Margins. With… Continue Reading
Tiffany Williams Roberts is Director of the Public Policy Unit at Southern Center for Human Rights. She joined the organization in April 2018 as the Community Engagement & Movement Building Counsel. She has practiced criminal defense since 2008, first as… Continue Reading
Harcourt, Bernard E. Cooperation: A Political, Economic, and Social Theory. New York: Columbia University Press, 2023. Read Chapter 1 here. Avram Alpert, “Cooperative Ideals at the Heart of Everything: On Bernard Harcourt’s Cooperation,” Los Angeles Book Review, Sept. 7, 2023.