The Long Road Towards Human Rights on the Internet

Le Centre sur les droits de la personne et le pluralisme juridique a le plaisir de présenter un séminaire avec le chercheur O'Brien en résidence Andrey Shcherbovich, animé par Alejandro Lorite Escorihuela.

Il s'agit d'un événement hybride. Les places sont limitées. Pour y assister en personne, RSVP avant le 17 novembre à sharon.webb [at] mcgill.ca. Des passeports de vaccination seront exigés. Sinon, tous les participants sont les bienvenus sur Zoom.

Pour discussion, prière de préalablement consulter le site web de la Charte des droits de l'homme et des principes pour l'internet.

Le conférencier

[En anglais seulement] Currently an O'Brien Fellow in Residence at McGill Law, Dr. Andrey Shcherbovich (Complete Academic CV [.pdf]) was a project coordinator in the Non-Governmental Organization ‘Inter-regional Library Cooperation Centre’, working body of the UNESCO Information For All Programme (2008-2010). Between 2011 and 2020, he was a lecturer, then associate professor at the Department of the Constitutional and Administrative Law, Law Faculty of the National Research University Higher School of Economics in Moscow (Russia). In 2019 he was a CyberBRICS research fellow and visiting professor at FGV, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Dr. Shcherbovich’s professional interests are related to Russian public law (constitutional and human rights law) with special regard to international principles of Internet Governance. Among others, he teaches a special course on the human rights of Internet users. Since 2010, Dr. Shcherbovich has participated in the UN Internet Governance Forum. He writes scholarly monographs and articles on internet governance and human rights on the Internet, and he researches current trends of Internet regulation in Russia. Also, he translates international sources in that field from English into Russian, like the commented version of the Charter of the Rights and Principles for the Internet.