International Law and Human Rights国际法及人权法.pdf

Yale Law School Yale Law School Legal Scholarship Repository Faculty Scholarship Series Yale Law School Faculty Scholarship 1-1-1951 International Law and Human Rights Myres S. McDougal Yale Law School Follow this and additional works at: /fss_papers Part of the Law Commons This Book Review is brought to you for free and open access by the Yale Law School Faculty Scholarship at Yale Law School Legal Scholarship Repository. It has been accepted for inclusion in Faculty Scholarship Series by an authorized administrator of Yale Law School Legal Scholarship Repository. For more information, please contact julian.aiken@. Recommended Citation McDougal, Myres S., "International Law and Human Rights" (1951). Faculty Scholarship Series. Paper 2478. /fss_papers/2478 REVIEWS INTERNATIONAL LAW AND HUMAN RIGHTS. By H. Lauterpacht. London: Stevens & Sons Limited, 1950. pp. 475, xvi. 12 10s. ONE of the paramount problems of our time is how law, including interna- tional law, can be made best to serve the purpose of maintaining a free society. In this comprehensive and insightful study Professor Lauterpacht brings to finest conception and expression his many distinguished contributions to meeting this problem 1 Within its much controverted domain, 2 his book is unique for its clarity in statement of goals, for the realism with which it describes trends in international doctrine and practice and in conditioning factors in international society, and for the specificity and cogency of its recommendations. The author's stated purpose is to study and appraise the human rights provisions of the United Nations Charter, and subsequent efforts to make these provisions effective, against "the wider background of the problem of the subjects of international law and of the interaction of the law of nations and the law of nature in relation to the enduring issue of human government-the securing of the natural and inalienable rights of man," 3 and he breaks his task into three parts: The Righ