Global Governance and Human Rights
June 2016
Presented at the Central and East European International Studies Association (CEEISA)-International Studies Association (ISA) joint international conference in Ljubljana, Slovenia.
Human Rights Thresholds and Global Duties
March 2016
Presented at the International Studies Association Annual Meeting in Atlanta, Georgia.
Human Rights Duties and the Status of Women in Saudi Arabia
June 2014
Presented at the Global Governance and Human Rights conference sponsored by the International Studies Association in Istanbul, Turkey.
Global Citizenship and Moral Interdependence: Protecting Individual Positive Identity and Ecological Balance
August 2013
Presented at the American Political Science Association (APSA) Conference in Chicago, Illinois.
Economic & Social Human Rights as Global Public Goods
May 2013
Presented at the Law and Society Annual Meeting in Boston, Massachusetts.
International Organization and Poverty Alleviation
June 2012
Coauthor with Diana Fuguitt, presented at the British International Studies Association Conference in Edinburgh, Scotland.
Translating Economic and Social Human Rights Norms into Public Policy
April 2012
Prepared for the International Studies Association Annual Meeting in San Diego, California.
Linking Law and Economics
April 22-24, 2011
Presented at the Rights and Their Translation into Practice conference at the Rogers College of Law, University of Arizona.
The Idea of Principled Dissent
December 2010
Presented at the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School.
Individual Moral Responsibility in a Time of War
March 2007
Presented at the International Studies Association Annual Meeting in Chicago.
Human Rights Disparities between Europe and the United States: Conflicting Approaches to Poverty Prevention and the Alleviation of Suffering
August 2004
Presented at the Oxford Round Table at St. Anthony’s College in the University of Oxford, UK.
Respecting, Protecting and Fulfilling Economic and Social Human Rights: A UN Economic Security Council?
March 2004
Presented at the International Studies Association Annual Meeting in Montreal, Canada.
The Committee on the Elimination of all Forms of Racial Discrimination: Race and Economic and Social Human Rights
February 2001
Presented at the International Studies Association Annual Meeting in Chicago, Illinois.
Gender and Economic and Social Human Rights: Structural Constructivism and Change
March 2000
Presented at the International Studies Association Annual Meeting in Los Angeles, California.
The United Nations and Economic and Social Human Rights
February 1999
Presented at the International Studies Association Annual Meeting in Washington, D.C.
The Universal Declaration and the Group Dimensions to Human Suffering
March 1998
Presented at the International Studies Association Annual Meeting in Minneapolis. This paper was part of a panel honoring Professor Louis Henkin from the Columbia University Law School.
Militarism and Human Rights
March 1998
Presented at the International Studies Association Annual Meeting in Minneapolis.
Inequality and Human Rights
March 1997
Presented at the International Studies Association Annual Meeting in Toronto.
Moral Obligation, International Law, and Development
November 1995
Presented at the Ethics Section of the American Academy of Religion at their annual conference in Philadelphia.
The Legal Duties to States From the U.N.’s Right to Development
February 1995
Presented at the International Studies Association Annual Meeting in Chicago.
The Relationship Between Self-Determination and the Right to Development
May 1994
Submitted to an international conference on “The Right of Peoples to Self-Determination” sponsored by the University of Pridnestovie in Tiraspol, Moldova.
The Morality of the Depths: The Right to Development as a Basic Right
March 1994
Presented at the International Studies Association Annual Meeting in Washington D.C.
Peoples Rights and Group Rights
January 1994
Presented at a conference on “Extending Human Rights,” sponsored by the United Nations Program of the World Order Models Project in New York City.
Peoples Rights and Democratic Theory
September 1993
Presented at an international conference on “International Law and Indigenous Peoples” sponsored by the Commonwealth Lawyers for Asia-Pacific and the International Federation of Peace and Conciliation in Moscow.
The Protection of Peoples’ Rights in the State System
March 1993
Presented at the International Studies Association Annual Meeting in Acapulco, Mexico.
Peoples' Rights' in International Relations: The Right to Self-Determination
March, 1991
Presented at the International Studies Association Annual Meeting in Vancouver, Canada.
Self Determination. Peoples' Sovereignty. Democracy
March 7, 1990
Presented at the II Congresso Sobre Derechos Humanos Individuales y Colectivos, “Derechos Humanos Individuales y Derechos Humanos Colectivos,” Bilbao, Spain.
Rights and the Politics of the Left
March 31-April 1, 1989
Presented at the New York State Political Science Association, John Jay College, New York City.