{"title":"The United Nations I","authors":"Quentin-Baxter","doi":"10.1017/9781108888653.003","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"The major assets of the Human Rights programme are substantial, and some of them are easily counted. The Universal Declaration championed by Cassin and chronicled by Sohn has enlarged the meaning of the human rights provisions of the United Nations Charter, and is within the frame of reference of almost every United Nations debate. Lauterpacht 2 laid the foundations for sound legal development by tracing the Charter provisions to their heritage in existing law. Other writers of the first rank have helped to change the perspectives of international law to conform with the Charter goals of universality and of ultimate concern for individual human rights. It is the measure of these changes that the Secretary-General of the International Commission of Jurists, writing in celebration of Human Rights Year, is able to affirm:","PeriodicalId":42966,"journal":{"name":"International Organizations Law Review","volume":"42 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.6000,"publicationDate":"2020-08-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"International Organizations Law Review","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108888653.003","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q2","JCRName":"LAW","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
The major assets of the Human Rights programme are substantial, and some of them are easily counted. The Universal Declaration championed by Cassin and chronicled by Sohn has enlarged the meaning of the human rights provisions of the United Nations Charter, and is within the frame of reference of almost every United Nations debate. Lauterpacht 2 laid the foundations for sound legal development by tracing the Charter provisions to their heritage in existing law. Other writers of the first rank have helped to change the perspectives of international law to conform with the Charter goals of universality and of ultimate concern for individual human rights. It is the measure of these changes that the Secretary-General of the International Commission of Jurists, writing in celebration of Human Rights Year, is able to affirm:
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After the Second World War in particular, the law of international organizations developed as a discipline within public international law. Separate, but not separable. The International Organizations Law Review purports to function as a discussion forum for academics and practitioners active in the field of the law of international organizations. It is based on two pillars; one is based in the world of scholarship, the other in the world of practice. In the first dimension, the Journal focuses on general developments in international institutional law.