Module Title: Norms of Humanity
Module Leader: Dr Giovanni Mantilla
Module Description:
This module focuses on the “humanization” of world politics and global governance through a variety of “humanity-centred” legal regimes, a process that began in the nineteenth century, but which solidified throughout the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. We explore a range of questions to do with the politics of the process of normative change (toward humanization) and the operation and effects of some of the most prominent strands of humanity-oriented rules, including human rights, humanitarian law, and criminal law. What explains the turn to “humanity”? How can such normative change be better described and theorized? How do various “norms of humanity” work, what are their virtues and their limits? How do we think about the present and future of a “humanized” global governance? These are some of the broad questions guiding the choice of materials and our reflections.