The paper outlines the usefulness and challenges of teaching the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) to the young generation of the twenty-first century. Reflecting on the author's experience of engaging university students the paper shares with readers some personal lessons on the subject. A brief history of the UDHR in the past seven…

The World Conference on Education for All held in Jomtien, Thailand, in March 1990 was influential in the spread of student-centered pedagogies in low-income countries (Ginsburg, 2010). A document prepared in this conference considered the active and participatory teaching approaches as "particularly valuable in assuring learning acquisition…

In terms of political liberation and constitutional democracy, Americans cannot help but think back to 1776 and the Declaration of Independence. For the English, the mind reaches back to the English Declaration of Rights of 1689, and for those with somewhat longer historical memories, to Magna Carta of 1215. But the true origin of political…

The inability of national governments to solve the world's major problems is examined, and various suggestions for solving the problems through an international government and transnational action are discussed. There are four chapters. Chapter 1 discusses changes in international relations which are resulting in a collapse of the "Old…

The Global Law School Program developed at New York University (New York) consists of three initiatives: a program to internationalize the faculty; a program providing up to 20 full scholarships annually for graduate law students from around the world; and a center underwriting research and teaching on the impact of the global economy on property,…

A discussion of legal education needs for a global industrial and science-based economy looks at influential demographic and economic trends, sketches several possible scenarios for the future of world trade, and outlines steps and considerations in designing an appropriate transnational legal curriculum. (MSE)

The book suggests models of new world organizations that will be necessary to achieve the elimination of global poverty, injustice, war, and environmental imbalance by the end of the 20th century. The book was developed by the World Order Models Project (WOMP), an international group of researchers and scholars established in 1968 to explore…