Higher Education and SDG16

Amb. Sarah E. Mendelson is Distinguished Service Professor of Public Policy at Carnegie Mellon University, USA, leading an initiative to create a Center for Sustainable Futures.

• Chapter 1. Introduction: SDG 16, Higher Education, and the Benefits of New Approaches to Teaching and Researching Human Rights; Sarah E. Mendelson Chapter 2. Closing Access to Justice Gaps Globally; Elizabeth Andersen Chapter 3. Judicial institutions, SDGs, and the 2030 Agenda across Latin America and the Caribbean; Alvaro Herrero Chapter 4 . The potential of Participatory and Experiential Learning for the Promotion of Human Rights and the SDGs; Thomas Probert Chapter 5. Toward More Just Societies: The SDG Agenda and Innovations in Higher Education; Ariel C. Armony Chapter 6. Between Localization and Realization: Partnerships toward Advancing Human Rights and the Sustainable Development Goals in Los Angeles; Gaea Morales, Anthony Tirado Chase, Michelle E. Anderson, and Sofia Gruskin Chapter 7. Unjust Recovery in the Wake of the Pandemic and the Need to Reframe Human Rights Using the SDGs; Sarah E. Mendelson

Sarah Mendelson and her collaborators make a compelling case for the Sustainable Development Goals as a promising project for re-energizing progress on social justice, economic development, and human rights. In their vision, law remains a guiding standard, but the SDG approach puts law to work with a tool kit of community organization, operational know-how, and rigorously generated data. Academe has a central role to play in educating the new generation of principled pragmatists in the outlook, skills, and information they will need to boost rights and justice to a higher level.