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

by Johannes Morsink (Author)

"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

Author Biography

Johannes Morsink is Professor of Political Philosophy in the Department of Political Science at Drew University. He is the author of Aristotle on the Generation of Animals.