THE UNIVERSAL DECLARATION OF HUMAN RIGHTS

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. . . . [Morsinks] seminal account merits reading by all invested in the Declaration--activist, academic, official, or victim. --Jerome E. Shestack, American Journal of International Law_,