Johannes Morsink

Drew University · political science

This is a tightly argued book structured around the central claim that "the right to political self-determination is an irreducibly collective moral right held by legitimate states and groups that are willing and able to become legitimate states." The book unpacks this claim and draws from it a series of (at times unexpected) conclusions that place...

Confronting the evils of World War II and building on the legacy of the 1776 Declaration of Independence and the 1789 French Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen, a group of world citizens including Eleanor Roosevelt drafted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Adopted by the United Nations in 1948, the Universal Declaration ha...

This essay will show how in the late 1940s the drafting of the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide and of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights overlapped in a significant manner. That overlap helps explain why neither of these documents directly addresses the crime of cultural genocide. While they retained the...

Human Rights Quarterly 17.2 (1995) 398-402 The Universal Declaration of Human Rights: A Commentary, Asbjørn Eide, Gudmundur Alfredsson, Goran Melander, Lars Adam Rehof and Allan Rosas, eds. with collaboration of Theresa Swinehart, Scandinavian University Press and Oxford University Press. This volume is a collection of thirty-one essays by almost a...

The Charter of the United Nations forbids discrimination on the basis of "race sex language or religion." Some of the delegations involved in drafting the 1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights felt that this short list of four nondiscrimination items was enough and should be repeated in the Declaration. Others wanted to be more exhaustive. The...