An International Bill of the Rights of Man - Hardcover

Lauterpacht, H.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1584779233 ISBN 13: 9781584779230

Publisher: Lawbook Exchange Ltd, 2018

Synopsis

Lauterpacht, H[ersch].
An International Bill of the Rights of Man. New York: Columbia University Press, 1945. x, 230pp. Reprint available May 2009 by the Lawbook Exchange, Ltd. Hardcover. New.

* From the series Foundations of the Laws of War. This book surveys the written expression of human rights from the time of the Greeks to the present; it argues the legal and philosophical bases for codifying human rights; and finally, it presents a propsed International Bill of Rights of Man, article by article. "Lauterpacht's volume is a penetrating study recalling in its philosophical breadth and historical learning the classical seventeenth century treatises on the subject. It presents much food for juridical thought, perhaps blazing a pathway from the sterility of nineteenth century positivism. The volume maintains a tone of optimism and idealism suggesting that creativeness in legal analysis is not only necessary but also practicable in a world shaken to its foundations by two wars and by revolutionary inventions, such as the airplane, the radio and the atom bomb, during the past generation.": QUincy Wright, Harvard Law Review 58 (1944-1945) 1267-1268.

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About the Author:

An English international lawyer of Polish birth, Sir Hersch Lauterpacht [1897-1960] was Whewell Professor of International Law at Cambridge and a member of the Institute of International Law and the British Academy. He also served as a judge of the International Court of Justice and was a Bencher of Gray's Inn. His other noted works are Private Law Sources and Analogies of International Law (1927) and The Function of Law in the International Community (1933).

Review:

"Lauterpacht's volume is a penetrating study recalling in its philosophical breadth and historical learning the classical seventeenth century treatises on the subject. It presents much food for juridical thought, perhaps blazing a pathway from the sterility of nineteenth century positivism. The volume maintains a tone of optimism and idealism suggesting that creativeness in legal analysis is not only necessary but also practicable in a world shaken to its foundations by two wars and by revolutionary inventions, such as the airplane, the radio and the atom bomb, during the past generation." -- Quincy Wright, Harvard Law Review 58 (1944-1945) 1267-1268

About this edition

• Publisher: Lawbook Exchange Ltd
• Publication date: 2018
• ISBN 10: 1584779233
• ISBN 13: 9781584779230
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 230