From: "Ulrich Arnswald" <Ulrich.Arnswald-AT-urz.uni-heidelberg.de>
Date:          Sat, 8 May 1999 15:18:33 MET-1MEST
Subject:       Lecture Announcement and Invitation



ANNOUNCEMENT AND INVITATION


Lecture: "Human Rights: Mediating Between Rights and Ethics?" by
         Michael Anderheiden, University of Heidelberg
         
Venue:  German-American Institute (Deutsch-Amerikanisches Institut),  
        Sofienstrasse 12, 69115 Heidelberg, Germany

Date:   May 12, 1999

Time:   8 p.m.


Human Rights: Mediating Between Rights and Ethics?
The claim for justice is considered as the connection between rights 
and ethics or morals. Since we do not agree about the concept of 
justice, it would be appropriate to return to what appears in any case 
as unjust: violations of human rights. Someone who violates 
the human rights places himself beyond the legal and moral community.
In this way human rights mediates between rights and ethics. However, 
there are strong reservations from both, the ethical or moral as well 
as the legal side against determining the relationship of rights to 
morals through the reference to human rights. The lecture will 
introduce the contemporary discussion between rights and ethics.

The lecture is organised by The European Institute for International 
Affairs and is sponsored by the Heinrich Boell-Stiftung Baden-
Wuerttemberg.

Michael Anderheiden was educated in law and philosophy at the 
universities of Freiburg and Muenster. He spent time as a 
research scholar at Harvard University as well as at the University 
of Cambridge. He is currently a Senior Fellow at the Department of 
Public Law and Philosophy of Law of the University of Heidelberg.


Inquiries

Expressions of interest, questions and request for further 
information may be directed to Ulrich Arnswald 
(Ulrich.Arnswald-AT-urz.uni-heidelberg.de).