Anand Grover is one of India's leading human rights litigators. For over four decades, Mr. Grover has argued and won major cases in the Indian Supreme Court and High Courts advancing LGBTQ rights, access to life-saving medicines, the rights of people living with HIV, and many others. Trained as a biochemist, Mr. Grover is a pioneer in using science to advance health rights in India and worldwide as the former United Nations Special Rapporteur on the Right to Health (2008-14). During the second wave of COVID-19 in India, beginning in March 2021, the national response sacrificed evidence-based science and policymaking to devastating effect. In his talk, Mr. Grover will reflect on the current state of democratic backsliding in India and how science is being sacrificed in public policy while the courts stand by without intervention.

This event is cosponsored by the University of Chicago Law School's International Programs, International Law Society, Human Rights Law Society, and the Pozen Family Center for Human Rights.

Lunch will be provided. Please submit dietary requests eight business days prior to the program to Aican Nguyen at aican@uchicago.edu. Although we will try to accommodate dietary needs, it is not guaranteed.