Travaux Preparatoires of the Fair Trial Provisions--Articles 8 to 11--of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights

Authors

David Weissbrodt, University of Minnesota Law SchoolFollow
Mattias Hallendorff

Publication

Human Rights Quarterly

Volume

21

Page

1061

Year

1999

Abstract

On 10 December 1948, the United Nations General Assembly adopted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. 1 In view of the fiftieth anniversary of the Declaration, this article reviews its origins. The article then focuses principally upon the drafting and meaning of the fair trial provisions of the Declaration. Rather than looking at the Declaration’s provisions article by article in numerical order, the article first considers the overall drafting history of the Declaration; second, it focuses on the principal fair trial provisions, Articles 10 and 11; and then deals with the drafting of Articles 8 and 9, which are complementary.

Comments

Copyright © 1999 The Johns Hopkins University Press. This article first appeared in Human Rights Quarterly Journal, 21:4 (1999), 1061-1096. Reprinted with permission by The Johns Hopkins University Press.

Recommended Citation

David Weissbrodt and Mattias Hallendorff, Travaux Preparatoires of the Fair Trial Provisions--Articles 8 to 11--of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, 21 Hum. Rts. Q. 1061 (1999), available at https://scholarship.law.umn.edu/faculty_articles/413.