The complexity of powerlessness: What makes human rights law perform?

Date: 04:00pm, Wednesday, May 26, 2010

Presenter/Convenor: Professor Saskia Sassen

Location: St Catherine’s College, University of Oxford

Series: Annual Elizabeth Colson Lecture

Professor Saskia Sassen gave the 2010 Annual Elizabeth Colson Lecture. Saskia Sassen is the Robert S. Lynd Professor of Sociology and Member, The Committee on Global Thought, Columbia University.Her lecture was entitled 'The complexity of Powerlessness: What makes human rights law perform?'

The lecture was recorded and is available as podcast on Forced Migration Online.