Distinguished Jurist Panel: Insights and Perspectives on the History and Development of Human Rights Norms

Moderator: Linda Carter, Professor of Law and Director, Legal Infrastructure and International Justice Institute, University of the Pacific, McGeorge School of Law The extensive experience of the distinguished international jurists on this panel with human rights law and related fields will form the basis for insights and perspectives into the history and development of human rights norms. The panelists will examine the current importation of human rights norms into other areas of law and predictions for future development

Panel 4: The Next Frontier: Space and Beyond

What does an international law of property portend for future extraterrestrial ambitions, such as moon and near asteroid mining? How does the Outer Space Treaty address the global commons of outer space? The law of outer space is “both unclear and incomplete” – what are the implications of an international law of property for the development of outer space law

Borexino : geo-neutrino measurement at Gran Sasso, Italy

Geo-neutrinos, electron anti-neutrinos produced in beta-decays of naturally occurring radioactive isotopes in the Earth, are a unique direct probe of our planet's interior. After a brief introduction of the geo-neutrinos' properties and of the main aims of their study, we discuss the features of a detector which has recently provided breakthrough achievements in the field, Borexino, a massive, calorimetric liquid scintillator detector installed at the underground Gran Sasso Laboratory. With its unprecedented radiopurity levels achieved in the core of the detection medium, it is the only experiment in operation able to study in real time solar neutrino interactions in the challenging sub-MeV energy region. Its superior technical properties allowed Borexino also to provide a clean detection of terrestrial neutrinos. Therefore, the description of the characteristics of the detected geo-neutrino signal and of the corresponding geological implications are the main core of the discussion contained in this work