On JUNE 16, join us at Harvard Law School as we consider the historic role of the South African Freedom Charter on its 50th anniversary. On JUNE 17, Northeastern University School of Law will officially launch our new Program on Human Rights and the Global Economy with a groundbreaking discussion featuring Chief Justice Pius Langaof the Constitutional Court of South Africa.

The Freedom Charter has played a critical role in advancing a platform of economic, social and cultural rights, and in mobilizing mass participation and international support for the South African struggle against apartheid. The symposium will include a keynote address by Chief Justice Pius Langa and an address by Justice Zakeria M. Yacoob of the Constitutional Court of South Africa. Chief Justice Margaret H. Marshall of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court will also deliver remarks.

Sponsored by the School of Law's Program on Human Rights and the Global Economy, South Africa Partners, and Harvard Law School's Charles Hamilton Houston Institute for Race and Justice.

The School of Law's Program on Human Rights and the Global Economy will bring together a select group of leading US and international judges, lawyers, academics and activists to discuss current developments in the justiciability and implementation of socio-economic and cultural rights.

Judges on Justiciability: ESC Rights in the Courts

• The Honorable Pius Langa, Chief Justice, Constitutional Court of South Africa
• The Honorable Margot Botsford, Associate Justice, Massachusetts Superior Court

• Professor Karl E. Klare, Northeastern University School of Law