Legal Research

HR Declaration Animated

By Michael Lines

As a supplement to Omar’s post, the US Human Rights Action Center has a beautiful animated and musical version of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Not the exact text, mind you, but a faithful rendering of its spirit and parts, minus a bit of stiffness. It proves that, as Simon suspected , not all lawyers are typographically challenged.

I’m introducing International Legal Research to our Jessup Moot team today, and the compromis raises, among others, issues of human rights and humanitarian intervention. On these topics the best guide I have found is Marci Hoffman’s chapter in the ASIL Guide. Ms. Hoffman also helped create the University of Minnesota’s Human Rights Library, which has some very useful bibliographies, though as the site demonstrates, if there is a group more typographically challenged than lawyers, it may be librarians.

Full post as published by Slaw.ca on October 17, 2008 (boomark / email).