Book Launch: Transnational Lawmaking Coalitions for Human Rights

When: Tuesday, November 22, 2022, 5:30 PM - 7:00 PM
Where: QMUL Graduate Centre, Room 201 Mile End Road London E1 4NS, Mile End Campus

Speaker: Dr. Nina Reiners

Dr. Nina Reiners will talk about her book "Transnational Lawmaking Coalitions for Human Rights“ (CUP, 2022). This book dives beneath the surface of formal access, procedures, and actors of the UN human rights treaty bodies to reveal how members and external collaborators play a key role in the development of human rights. "Transnational Lawmaking Coalitions for Human Rights“ was recently awarded the 2022 biannual award for the best book on the United Nations system by the Academic Council on the United Nations System (ACUNS).

Speakers:

Book author: Nina Reiners (Berlin/Potsdam, Graduate Institute Geneva)

Chair: Alvina Hoffmann (School of Politics and International Relations, Queen Mary University of London)

Discussants: Corina Lacatus (School of Politics and International Relations, Queen Mary University of London)

Alexis Javier Alvarez Nakagawa (School of Law, Queen Mary University of London)

Alvina Hoffmann (School of Politics and International Relations, Queen Mary University of London)

Author Bio:

Nina Reiners is a Political Scientist specialized in International Relations and International Law. She is currently a postdoctoral researcher in the Berlin/Potsdam research group "International Rule of Law“ and research associate at the Global Governance Centre of the Graduate Institute Geneva.