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Through the World's Eye

Michael Donald Kirby

出版	Federation Press, 2000
主題	Law / GeneralLaw / Natural LawLaw / Judicial PowerPolitical Science / GeneralPolitical Science / Human Rights
ISBN	186287347X9781862873476
URL	http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=vaQdAQAACAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api

註釋

"Once we saw issues and problems through the prism of a village or nation-state, especially if we were lawyers. Now we see the challenges of our time through the world's eye. ..." So Justice Michael Kirby AC CMG introduces this book which fuses his belief in human rights and, in Geoffrey Robertson QC word's, his demonstration "that law really can be of help. He shows this time and again in the chapters of a book which makes you proud to be a lawyer." Writing with facility and power, drawing on polymathic learning, he devotes the first half of the book to major human rights issues in which he has been involved and the second to the law and its institutions. The result is a book in which, Sir Zelman Cowen says, "Michael Kirby demonstrates this extraordinary breadth of thought, humanity and insight into contemporary issues." Justice Edwin Cameron of South Africa notes the "sublime combination of intellectual brilliance, emotional depth and a nearly inexhaustible capacity for human engagement". Lord Cooke of Thorndon writes: "Michael Kirby is a most distinguished citizen and servant of Australia. Yet it is his international impact that has most marked him out. There is not a paper in this book that can be read without interest and at least some degree of enlightenment. We can be disturbed but never bored."