Voices in Vulnerability

How can institutions hold themselves accountable through ongoing relationship maintenance? Learn about Melissa Cosgrove's care paradigm and how it relates to vulnerability theory.

Find Cosgrove's work here: https://philpeople.org/profiles/melissa-cosgrove .

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 have contributed, this episode has been reviewed and approved by the VHC Program Coordinator.

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 2024 semester.

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 Emory Law’s first SJD student, graduating in 2008.