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54 Colum. J. Transnat'l L. 1 (2015-2016)

handle is hein.journals/cjtl54 and id is 1 raw text is: Articles The Right to Read LEA SHAVER* Reading-for education and for pleasure-may be framed as a personal indulgence, a moral virtue, or even a civic duty. What are the implications of fram- ing reading as a human right? Although novel, a rights-based framing finds strong support in international human rights law. The right to read need not be defended as a new human right. Rather, it can be located at the intersection of more familiar guarantees. Well-established rights to educa- tion, science, culture, and freedom of expression, among others, provide the necessary normative sup- port for recognizing a universal right to read as al- ready implicit in international law. This article argues that reading should be understood * Associate Professor of Law, Indiana University Robert H. McKinney School of Law; J.D., Yale Law School; M.A., University of Chicago. I would like to thank Erin F. Delaney, Susan DeMaine, Peter DiCola, Keith Findley, Christopher C. French, Robert Katz, Benjamin Keele, Jud Mathews, Michael Mattioli, Alexandra Mogyoros, David Orentlicher, Guy Rub, Margaret Tarkington, Melissa Wasserman, Christopher J. Walker, Carlton Waterhouse, Diana Winters, and R. George Wright for their particularly helpful comments during the drafting of this article. Particular thanks go to the organizers and participants of Indiana University Maurer School of Law's Big Ten Untenured Faculty Workshop, especially Ajay Mehrotra, and the University of Connecticut Human Rights Institute's Economic and Social Rights reading group, especially Shareen Hertel, Susan Randolph, and Molly Land. The Author and the Columbia Journal of Transnational Law make this article available to the public under the terms of a Creative Commons Attribution International 4.0 license. Anyone is free to print, share, publish, translate, abridge, adapt, or otherwise reuse or repurpose this work, including for commercial purposes, so long as the author Lea Shaver and the Journal are credited. This article may be downloaded from http://ssrn.com/abstract=2467635.

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