Human Rights Workshop: Joy Gordon, “Overcompliance and the Inadequacy of Humanitarian Exemptions”

Sep. 24, 2026
12:10PM - 1:30PM
SLB Room 128
Open to the Yale Community

Lunch Provided / RSVP Required. Email the Schell Center to request background readings a week prior to talk.

Joy Gordon holds the Ignacio Ellacuría, S.J. Chair in Social Ethics in the Philosophy Department at Loyola University-Chicago. She has published extensively on the legal issues and the humanitarian impacts of economic sanctions. Her publications include Economic Sanctions from Havana to Baghdad: Legitimacy, Accountability, and Humanitarian Consequences (Cambridge University Press), as well as Invisible War: The United States and the Iraq Sanctions (Harvard University Press). Her articles have been published in Yale Journal of International Law, Harvard Journal of International Law, Ethics and International Affairs, Yale Development and Human Rights Law Journal, Foreign Policy, Le Monde Diplomatique, Global Governance, and elsewhere.

Sponsoring Organization(s)

The Schell Center for International Human Rights