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Against the background of the broader history of the idea of human rights, this lecture investigates when and why the contemporary field of global justice in philosophy and political theory was invented. Returning to the engagement of American liberals with the decolonization process in the 1970s, in the aftermath of the Vietnam war and even as more powerful tendencies were about to bring the welfarist ideal of the postwar era low, this lecture presents contemporary cosmopolitanism as a response to a forgotten revolt of the global south against the prevailing economic order of our age.

Professor Richard Falk is Albert G. Milbank Professor Emeritus of International Law at Princeton University, the author or co-author of 20 books and the editor or co-editor of another 20 books, political activist on world affairs, member of a number of International Commissions (MacBride Commission, Independent Commission on Kosovo) and formal United Nations roles.

The Church of Englands claim that marriage has been understood to be, always and exclusively, between a man and a woman is contestable on a number of grounds. Debates about marriage have a direct influence on peoples everyday lives, and it is a fundamental matter of equality and human rights. Yet the debates about same-sex marriage in the UK and the US are taking place in an informational vacuum too often filled by emotion and rhetoric.