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Articles by Katie Kraska
Something Fishy in the Farm Bill?
Katie Kraska is a law student in the HLS Food Law & Policy Clinic and a guest contributor to this blog. Aquaculture is making waves in conversations about the future of farming. The industry now surpasses global production from wild caught fisheries, sparking domestic debate as lawmakers work to reauthorize the farm bill. Encompassing any propagation, breeding, rearing, and harvesting of an aquatic plant or animal species, aquaculture practices are extremely diverse.
The Landmines Laid for Cultivated Meat / Cultivate Meat’s Political Tightrope | Farm Bill Law Enterprise
Katie Kraska is a law student in the HLS Food Law & Policy Clinic and a guest contributor to this blog. Despite the potential that cultivated meat products hold for revolutionizing how food is produced, mention of this technology is nowhere to be found in House or Senate Farm Bill drafts or outlines. Given some recent state-level developments, that may be a good thing. Cultivated meat is produced from a technology that grows animal tissue ex vivo, or without the need to raise and slaughter animals.
Human rights datasets are pointless without methodological rigour
Existing datasets on human rights have methodological weaknesses that can make them useless for any meaningful statistical analysis. There has been an ongoing debate on the desirability and feasability of using human rights databases, more concretely the Cingranelli-Richards (CIRI) human rights dataset, to analyze trends in human rights.
Cohesion in the chaos: uniting human rights methodologies
With the range of options available to document and analyze human rights, it’s important to help researchers and advocates use data responsibly and appropriately. In the field of human rights, we now have a burgeoning array of methodologies for documentation and an even wider collection of experts who use them. This enormous range of options, methods and actors has conflicting effects, creating both challenges and opportunities.
Human rights datasets are pointless without methodological rigour
There has been an ongoing debate on the desirability and feasability of using human rights databases, more concretely the Cingranelli-Richards (CIRI) human rights dataset, to analyze trends in human rights. Neve Gordon and Nitza Berkovitch’s broadside attack on the alleged bias inherent in cross-national data being used in human rights research was quickly followed by Todd Landman’s critique of this allegation.
The fine print: seeing beyond the hype in technology for human rights
With all the hype about new technologies for human rights, activists must think critically and strategically. A contribution to the openGlobalRights debate on data and human rights . The challenges around technology implementation carry higher risks in the human rights sector than in other areas. Technology’s “fail fast” mantra isn’t appropriate here, nor are attempts to innovate, iterate and try again. The stakes are much higher, and reliability makes all the difference.
Cohesion in the chaos: uniting human rights methodologies
With the range of options available to document and analyze human rights, it’s important to help researchers and advocates use data responsibly and appropriately. Part of openGlobalRights’ data and rights series. In the field of human rights, we now have a burgeoning array of methodologies for documentation and an even wider collection of experts who use them. This enormous range of options, methods and actors has conflicting effects, creating both challenges and opportunities.
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