Maya Hertig Randall
Speaker
16:00 | Human rights and legislation: What legal frameworks for a fairer economy?
Maya Hertig Randall holds a Ph.D. from the University of Fribourg, a first class LL.M. from the University of Cambridge, UK, and was admitted to the Geneva Bar in 2002. Before joining the Faculty of Law of the University of Geneva as a full professor of constitutional law in 2007, she was a junior and senior research fellow, then assistant professor of European and international business law at the University of Bern, and a visiting scholar at the Central European University in Budapest, Hungary, and the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. Her research and publications in French, German and English focus on international and comparative human rights. From 2012 to 2023, she was a member and then vice-president of the Swiss Federal Commission against Racism. She has been a member of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) since 2014. Within the ICRC, she is President of the Recruitment and Remuneration Commission and a member of the Independent Data Protection Commission. Within the Faculty, she co-directs the Certificate of Advanced Studies in Human Rights and the Law Clinic on the Rights of Vulnerable Persons, and currently holds the position of Vice-Dean.
Key publications:
- Brochure created as part of the Law Clinic on the rights of vulnerable individuals, focusing specifically on people with disabilities and the world of work: Rights of People with Disabilities and the World of Work
- Interview for Amnesty International:
In this interview, she discusses the limits of speech and its impact in the context of discrimination and harassment. Read it here: When Speech Has Its Limits – Amnesty International
Her reasons for supporting #24May:
Creating an inclusive and harassment-free workplace is not just a moral or economic imperative, it is a human rights obligation that requires constant effort. At a time when diversity and inclusion are under increasing pressure, the International Day against Harassment and for Inclusion at Work is a timely and important event, not only to defend, reaffirm and explain the values at stake, but also to reflect on further ways forward.