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The Crisis of Human Rights – Why TWAIL still matters

Makau Mutua

Human rights is perhaps the most captivating liberation ideology of our time. Yet the curtain has fallen on human rights because of its normative and cultural deficits. However, nothing as compelling has replaced human rights. A moral vacuum abounds. That is why we need to ask whether TWAIL can either rescue human rights, or supplant it.

Keynote

Makau Mutua (Professor of Law
SUNY Buffalo School of Law
USA)