#  Joint Council of Europe-Harvard University Conference 

 



####  calendar\_today Date and Time 

 **September 23, 2013** 

 09:30AM - 05:30PM EDT 

####  pin\_drop Location 

 **Harvard Law School, 1585 Massachusetts Avenue, Wasserstein Hall, Milstein East C**  



 

 



 

## “Divided by a Common Heritage: Human Rights in Europe and the United States”

### Keynote Speaker:

**Thorbjørn Jagland,** *Secretary General of the Council of Europe.*

Introductory remarks from Martha Minow, Dean of Harvard Law School.

An all-day conference devoted to commonalities and divergences in approaches to human rights. Topics include privacy and security (in the context of cyber communications) and discrimination and equality (focusing on race). Panelists are Harvard academics and European scholars and practitioners. For more information, please go to [http://hrp.law.harvard.edu/academic/opportunities-for-scholarship/confe…](http://hrp.law.harvard.edu/academic/opportunities-for-scholarship/conferences/divided-by-a-common-heritage-human-rights-in-europe-and-the-united-states/).

*Co-sponsored by the Council of Europe, the Human Rights Program, the Center for European Studies, and the Weatherhead Initiative on Global History.*

*Please RSVP to <hrp@law.harvard.edu>*



 

 



 

 See also:- [ 2013–2014 ](/academic-year/2013%E2%80%932014)
- [ Weatherhead Research Cluster on Global History ](/event-categories/weatherhead-initiative-global-history)
 
 

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