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The lecture will discuss conceptions of human rights as moral, political, and legal imperatives, and their application to international migration and migrants. Cross-border migration poses the challenge of reconciling the universality of human rights with the current organization of political power through a system of territorial states. Illustrative examples will be drawn from the diversity of relevant international human rights regimes, including recent work of the UN Human Rights Committee.

Peter M. Shane, Jacob E. Davis and Jacob E. Davis II Chair in Law at the Ohio State University's Moritz College of Law & Visiting Professor of Law at Harvard Law School.