The Universal Declaration of Human Rights: Origins, Drafting, and Intent

By Johannes Morsink

Book Overview

"Revealing and useful." --Michael Ignatieff, New York Review of Books "Definitive. Essential reading for everyone interested in human rights." --David P. Forsythe, Choice "Morsink merges history and philosophy in a way that simultaneously roots the Universal Declaration in a particular time and place and reveals its enduring contemporary significance and value." --Jack Donnelly, Human Rights Quarterly "No other books takes the reader behind the scenes into the drafting details. . . . Morsink's] seminal account merits reading by all invested in the Declaration--activist, academic, official, or victim." --Jerome E. Shestack, American Journal of International Law

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0812217470
• ISBN13: 9780812217476
• Release Date: May 2000
• Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
• Length: 396 Pages
• Weight: 1.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 7.0" x 10.0"