Sentences with phrase «principal drafters»

Other representative matters include his work as one of the principal drafters of the merits briefs in the landmark case Boumediene v. Bush, which secured the right of Guantanamo detainees to challenge their incarceration, and his role as lead counsel in Caspar v. Snyder, which required Michigan to recognize the marriages of more than 300 same - sex couples.

He tellingly reminds us that, at the United Nations in 1948, one of the principal drafters of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights was a member of the Chinese delegation, a dedicated Confucian who saw to it that that Declaration was not reductively individualist but had a social context.

Named after the late John Peters Humphrey, the principal drafter of the United Nation Declaration of Human Rights, the Centre's mission is to advance the universal implementation of human rights through teaching and education of all people, with a specific focus on children and youth.