Third Annual NYU Law/UBA Conference

New Methods of Implementing, Monitoring, and Teaching ESCRFacultad de Derecho de la Universidad de Buenos AiresFigueroa Alcorta 2263 (Corner Of Pueyrredón) Salón Rojo, Main Floor Buenos Aires, Argentina

June 23–24, 2016

DAY 1 June 23Opening 10:00 – 10:30

MÓnica Pinto, Dean of the Law School, UBA

Marcelo Alegre, Research Secretary of the Law School, UBA; On-Site Faculty Director, NYU Law in Buenos Aires

Martín Sigal, Director, Human Rights Center of the Law School, UBA

Margaret Satterthwaite, Center for Human Rights and Global Justice, NYU Law

Panel 110:30 – 12:30

Measurement & Indicators

themes

° Concerns around progress indicators as a measurement tool for rights.

° Relevance, risks, possibilities, and limits of indicators as a tool for enforceability of ESCR.

° Links between indicators and justiciability of ESCR.

° Regional scenario: the role of the San Salvador Protocol Working Group, and the follow-up mechanisms of the Belém do Pará Convention. Indicators in the jurisprudence of the InterAmerican Court of Human Rights.

presentersLaura Pautassi, CONICET - UBA

Victor Abramovich, UBA - UNLa

Margaret Satterthwaite, NYU Law

Natalia Gherardi, Equipo Latinoamericano de Justicia y Género - ELA

12:30 – 14:30 Lunch

Panel 214:45 – 16:45

SDGs and Human Rights

themes

° What human rights lessons can we draw from the MDGs experience?

° What possibilities do they provide for advancing the agenda of objectives linked to structural inequality (ethnic, gender, socioeconomic, sexual division of labor) and reduction of poverty?

° What new consensus may they promote in the area of ESCR?

presentersAlicia Yamin, Georgetown University Law School

Paulo Abrão, Instituto de Políticas Públicas en Derechos Humanos Mercosur - IPPDH

María Nieves Rico, División Asuntos de Género - CEPAL

Mariela Belski, Amnesty International Argentina

16:45 – 17:30 Break

17:30 – 19:00 Book PresentationEl bienestar en brechas. Las políticas sociales en la Argentina de la posconvertibilidad.

Laura Pautassi and Gustavo Gamallo (Directors)

Alicia Yamin

Marcelo Alegre

María Nieves Rico

This event will take place in Sala Vélez Sarsfield

DAY 2 June 24Panel 310:30 – 12:30

Public Finance and ESCR

themes

° What type of institutional arrangements may contribute to having a tax expenditure regime respectful of HR?

° Challenges around the judicial intervention devoted to control tax expenditure policies which are not respectful of HR. (May the judiciary intervene when tax expenditure policies are not respectful of HR?; what type of intervention is justified?; what type of remedies may be allowed?)

presentersNikki Reisch, NYU Law

Martín Sigal, UBA

Sergio Chaparro Hernández, Dejusticia

Dalile Antúnez, Asociación Civil por la Igualdad y la Justicia - ACIJ

12:30 – 14:30 Lunch

Panel 414:45 – 16:45

Teaching Skills for ESCR Advocacy

themes

° Relevance and challenges of teaching skills to future HR lawyers.

° Methods, materials, and results.

presentersMargaret Satterthwaite, NYU Law

Paola Bergallo, UTDT

Martín Böhmer, UBA – NYU Law in Buenos Aires

María Florencia Saulino, UBA – NYU Law in Buenos Aires - UdeSA

Julieta Rossi, UBA - UNLa

Eduardo Bertoni, NYU Law in Buenos Aires