Workshop with Professor Nandini Ramanujam 

The Center for Human Rights and Global Justice (CHRGJ) is delighted to collaborate with Professor Nandini Ramanujam and host a workshop entitled:

Human Rights Pedagogy for Empowering the Agency of students: An assessment of IHRIP through the Capabilities Approach Framework.  

The paradigm of the ‘capabilities approach’ to human development has been analysed extensively in the last thirty years within academia. This workshop explores the potential of the capabilities approach informed pedagogy in the context of experiential legal education. In assessing the experience of McGill Faculty of Law’s International Human Rights Internship Program and its companion course Critical Engagements with Human Rights, the speaker posits that  the capabilities approach to teaching and learning about human rights, in the context of legal education, empowers future jurists and enables them to engage with global human rights in an ethical and professional manner. 

Prof. Nandini Ramanujam

Professor Ramanujam serves as the Co-Director and Director of programs of the Centre for Human Rights and Legal Pluralism at McGill University, Faculty of Law. She also directs the International Human Rights Internship program and the Independent Human Rights Internship program. Professor Ramanujam posses years of experience ranging from human rights issues, governance and planning, as well as education. Some of her areas of interest include Rule of Law and Development; Economic Justice; Comparative Perspectives on Corruption across Brazil, Russia, India, and China; and Critical Engagement with Discourses in Human Rights. 

Workshop Information

• September 21, 2023 
• 12:00 pm to 1:30 pm ET
• Wilf Hall, 5th floor Conference Room

This event is limited to NYU faculty and educators, as well as researchers and practitioners working on human rights pedagogy. 

If you are interested in attending, please fill out this RSVP form. 

For any inquiries, please contact chrgj@nyu.edu. 

Thank you!