Voices in Vulnerability

Class with Martha Fineman: A conversation with Sofia Bettini by Vulnerability and the Human Condition Initiative

Listen to high school student, Mr. Adnan Javed of Aitchison College, Lahore, Pakistan, discuss parliamentary diplomacy and a vulnerability theory approach to international human rights abuses. At Emory, we believe in the power of technology and are committed to using artificial intelligence (AI) responsibly. Please note that AI may have been used in generating parts of this content. While AI may h...

Listen to Dr. Thomas Coggin (Senior Lecturer in Law, University of the Witswatersrand, South Africa) discuss urban spatial planning and the law.

"If the land is not free and not safe, we are not free and not safe." Listen to Professor Dana Lloyd discuss property and religion, environmental law, and her most recent book, Land Is Kin: Sovereignty, Religious Freedom, and Indigenous Sacred Sites. Available at https://kansaspress.ku.edu/9780700635894/

Listen to Professor Martha Albertson Fineman discuss the concept of collective harm.

What factors influence decision-making in asylum cases based on sexual orientation and gender? Denise Venturi, PhD Candidate at KU Leuven, discusses her research into decision-making in asylum cases based on sexual orientation and gender, interviews with judges and refugees, her experiences as a visiting scholar at the FLT Project, work in the Feminism and Legal Theory Project archives, and more.

Are disability rights and reproductive rights fundamentally opposed to one another? Dhanishka Seneviratne joined the Vulnerability and the Human Condition Initiative and the Feminism and Legal Theory Project at Emory Law from the University of Birmingham to conduct research on “Vulnerability, Relationality, and Disability-Selective Abortions: Re-designing the Responsive State" during the spring 20...

Philosopher and legal theorist, Dr. Ursula Basset describes how teaching vulnerability theory allows for an approach based on solidarity. She discusses various applications of vulnerability theory in Argentina and her work teaching judges to apply the theory in their interpretations of the law and making policy recommendations.

Dr. Harriet Musoke discusses issues surrounding recent and upcoming legislation in Uganda regarding organ donation and surrogacy. Dr. Musoke is Senior Principal Lecturer at the Law Development Centre and Senior Lecturer at the Islamic University in Uganda. She lectures in family law, human rights, women’s rights and health law in particular reproductive and sexual health and rights. Dr. Musoke was...

Dr. Nyeck discusses their recent publication, Gender, Vulnerability Theory and Public Procurement: Perspectives on Global Reform. They invite listeners to “rethink the story about production, about valuation,” asking “what do we value?" Order the book here: https://www.routledge.com/Gender-Vulnerability-Theory-and-Public-Procurement-Perspectives-on-Global/Nyeck/p/book/9781032442815

VHC Visiting Scholar, Chinwe Mary Joe Maduabum, discusses her research in international intellectual property law (specifically patents) and what vulnerability theory has added to her analysis.

How do values shape contract law and how does contract law shape cultural values? Dr. Timothy Dodsworth of Newcastle University discusses his research into the values of contract law.

"Man can conquer heaven...but where is the state?" Dr. Peter Wang discusses authoritarianism and the important role of critical thinking in turning the public's attention to government action (or inaction). Listen to this interview given by Dr. Peter Wang, Associate Professor of Law at City University of Hong Kong.

Professor Charisa Kiyô Smith of CUNY Law discusses how access to resources impacts family experiences of the state, youth technology and cyber abuse, marijuana law in the context of family law, pod mapping, responding to violence without the police and more.

This interview with Aysel Kucuksu tracks her recently published papers on a vulnerability approach to asylum law and on applying artificial intelligence to the European Court of Human Rights' decision-making process. Aysel can be found on Twitter @aysel_kucuksu. Articles mentioned: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4081945 https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/18918131.2022...

Artist Jody Wood discusses her latest piece, Social Pharmacy, an interactive experience that invites participants to share and exchange health remedies. She explores the forces shaping our relationship to health and health institutions, and discusses what is shared and what is private within those relationships.

Professor Andrew Pilliar of Thompson Rivers University discusses how vulnerability theory informs his approach to reforming various systems to provide meaningful access to justice. Read 'Filling the Normative Hole at the Centre of Access to Justice: Toward a Person-Centred Conception' by Andrew Pilliar here: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4100809

Professor Marc L. Roark discusses his latest work on resiliency gaps, property as an asset of resilience and more.

Associate Professor Xiaoqian Hu discusses fair housing, the uses of property, and her strategy for creating incremental change.

Dr. Atieno Mboya interviews Corina Heri about her recently published book, Responsive Human Rights: Vulnerability, Ill-treatment and the ECtHR.

Professor Jessica Dixon Weaver discusses the 'elder catch' (a caregiving/work dilemma faced by increasing numbers of adult children), explains the concept of 'resistant assets,' and discusses how the Covid-19 pandemic impacts her research. Articles referenced below. The Perfect Storm: Coronavirus and The Elder Catch (2021). 96 Tul. L. Rev. 59 (2021), SMU Dedman School of Law Legal Studies Research...

Professor Barbara Bennett Woodhouse discusses her career trajectory, ecogenerism, her hopes for the future of child rights and more in this interview.

VHC postdoc Jennifer Hickey uses vulnerability theory to offer a unique assessment of the systemic issues that impact police misconduct in her recently published article, “From Apples to Orchards: A Vulnerability Approach to Police Misconduct.” In this interview, Hickey reflects on the article — written in the thick of the Black Lives Matter movement — and describes innovative ways of approaching...

Jody Wood is an artist and social practitioner who uses art to make dependence visible. Listen to her discuss her inspirations and projects including “Beauty in Transition,” “Choreographing Care,” and “Social Pharmacy.”

Professor Richard Daynard of Northeastern University School of Law discusses taking on the tobacco industry, the importance of emotion to humanity, and dispelling the notion of the rational actor.