The ‘Human Right to Science’: Whose Right and Whose Duties? (Lecture by Prof. Samantha BESSON)

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International human rights law guarantees a ‘right to participate in and to enjoy the benefits of scientific progress and its applications’. The lecture will explain why the so-called ‘right to science’ has largely stayed inactive, and what its recently-rekindled participatory dimension implies for its right-holders and duty-bearers. It proposes to interpret the right to science as a public good to help revise the predominant approach to science as an individual, ahistorical and acultural enterprise, and reverse the trend towards its privatization and commodification.

Lecture
Samantha BESSON (Tokyo College Professor; Professor, Faculty of Law, the University of Fribourg; Professor, Collège de France)

Comment
OKI Sayaka (Professor, Graduate School of Education, The University of Tokyo)

Q&A

Moderator
HANEDA Masashi (Director, Tokyo College)