Human Rights and World Public Order

Myres S. McDougal (deceased) was the former Sterling Professor of International Law at Yale University Law School Harold D. Lasswell (deceased) was the former Ford Foundation Professor of Social Sciences at Yale University. Dr. Lung-chu Chen is an internationally recognized scholar specializing in international law, human rights, the United Nations, and Taiwan. He is Professor of Law at New York Law School and founder and president of New Century Institute (New York) and founder and chairman of Taiwan New Century Foundation (Taiwan), a dual-nation think tank. He received his LL.B. with first-place honors from National Taiwan University, LL.M. from Northwestern University, and LL.M. and J.S.D. from Yale University. He authored The U.S.-Taiwan-China Relationship in International Law and Policy (Oxford 2016), and An Introduction to Contemporary International Law: A Policy-Oriented Perspective (Third Edition, Oxford, 2015).

Preface to the New Edition & Debts of Gratitude
Dedications from the Original Edition
Preface to the Original Edition
About the Author
Tributes
Tributes to McDougal
Higgins
Reisman
Tribute to Lasswell
McDougal

Introduction to the New Edition

Part I. Delimitation of the Problem

1. Human Rights in Comprehensive Context
2. The Social Setting of Human Rights: The Process of Deprivation and Nonfulfillment of Values
3. Claims Made to Authority for the Protection of Human Rights
4. The Global Constitutive Process of Authoritative Decision

Part II. The Clarification of General Community Policies

5. The Basic Policies of a Comprehensive Public Order of Human Dignity

Part III. Trends in Decision and Conditioning Factors: Claims Relating to Respect

6. Respect as the Core Value of Human Rights
7. Claims Relating to Fundamental Freedom of Choice
8. Claims Relating to a Basic Equality of Opportunity and Freedom from Discrimination
9. Claims Relating to Racial Discrimination
10. The Outlawing of Sex-Based Discrimination
11. Claims Relating to Freedom from Religious Discrimination
12. Claims for Freedom from Discrimination because of
13. Claims for Freedom from Discrimination in Choice of Language
14. The Protection of Aliens from Discrimination: State Responsibility Conjoined with Human Rights
15. The Protection of the Aged from Discrimination

Part IV. Future Prospects

16. The Aggregate Interest in Shared Respect and Human Rights: The Harmonization of Public Order and Civic Order

Appendix Nationality and Human Rights: The Protection of the Individual in External Arenas

Table of Cases
Name Index
Subject Index