The UMB Human Rights and Global Health Lecture Series session on April 13 will focus on the movement for reparations for transatlantic chattel slavery, including moral and legal bases for reparations claims. It will cover the nature of the movement for reparations and how the movement has leveraged or engaged domestic litigation and legislation, U.N. special procedures, and transnational activism. It will also examine legal objections to the duty to make reparations for transatlantic chattel slavery as well as responses to these objections. Finally, it will invite students to think creatively about arguments for reparations for historical harms from a transitional justice perspective.
Britta Redwood, JD, an assistant professor at Cardozo School of Law in New York, will be the speaker.