International Graduate Law Programs’ International Law Lecture Series will feature a presentation by Professor James Nickel on “Human Rights: Who are the Duty Bearers? States? Individuals? Corporations? International Organizations?” The event will be held on Tuesday, February 9 from 12:30 to 1:50 p.m. in the Law Library Reading Room, D201. Lunch will be provided. Nickel holds a joint appointment in the Department of Philosophy and the School of Law. He teaches and writes in human rights law and theory, political philosophy, philosophy of law, and constitutional law. He is the author of Making Sense of Human Rights and more than 60 articles in philosophy and law journals. In 2004 his essay “Poverty and Rights” received the annual Essay Prize from Philosophical Quarterly. His human rights entry in the online Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy receives almost 7,000 hits per year.

The semester-long International Law Lecture Series is held every other Tuesday. For more information, call 305-284-5402 or e-mail intl-llm@law.miami.edu.