Rights, Experts and Access to Justice

In contemporary times, the three generations (or dimensions) of Human Rights, namely freedom rights, social rights and peoples (or transindividual) rights ensure the possibility of reflecting on the major subjects relevant to human life by thinking about those rights - rights that may or may not even be recognised. However, the most important issue is the struggle to make rights effective. In political, academic, trade union, student and everyday life, one also needs to ensure that human rights are not a utopia, but a reality. Who does this work, how people access and agitate for rights, and what expertise is valued are part of this reality. New claims, referring to newly arising situations, are added to the realm of human beings. Discussing them and thinking of them is a way, albeit incipient, to make rights real for all human beings. This is a task for the homo academicus.