塞缪尔·莫恩，哈佛大学法学与历史学教授，曾任哥伦比亚大学历史系詹姆斯·布赖斯讲座教授，于2000年和2001年分别获得加州大学伯克利分校历史学博士和哈佛大学法律博士。主要研究欧洲现代思想史，偏重政治与法律思想、史学理论和犹太研究，近年来关注人权的历史研究。2008年获古根海姆奖金。参与编辑《人文》、《现代思想史》等学术杂志。著有《他者的起源》、《辩论大屠杀》、《最后的乌托邦》等。

Human rights offer a vision of international justice that today’s idealistic millions hold dear. Yet the very concept on which the movement is based became familiar only a few decades ago when it profoundly reshaped our hopes for an improved humanity. In this pioneering book, Samuel Moyn elevates that extraordinary transformation to center stage and asks what it reveals about t...(展开全部)

Human rights offer a vision of international justice that today’s idealistic millions hold dear. Yet the very concept on which the movement is based became familiar only a few decades ago when it profoundly reshaped our hopes for an improved humanity. In this pioneering book, Samuel Moyn elevates that extraordinary transformation to center stage and asks what it reveals about t...(展开全部)

“A tour de force.”—Gordon S. Wood, New York Times Book Review How were human rights invented, and how does their tumultuous history influence their perception and our ability to protect them today? From Professor Lynn Hunt comes this extraordinary cultural and intellectual history, which traces the roots of human rights to the rejection of torture as a means ...(展开全部)

林·亨特 (Lynn Hunt)，美国史丹佛大学博士。曾追随查尔斯·提利 (Charles Tilly) 从事历史社会学研究。她所到之处皆成为新文化史的重镇，每隔七、八年便有一重量级作品问世，诸如八十年代初期的《法国大革命时期的政治、文化与阶级》(Politics, Culture, and Class in the French Revolution, 1986)、以及九○年代初期的《法国大革命时期的家庭罗曼史》等。此外，她每隔十年便组织一次会议反省十年来的新文化史研究成果，因而催生了一九八九年《新文化史》(The New Cultural History, 1989) 和一九九九年《超越文化转向》(Beyond the Cultural Turn: New Directions in the Study of Society and Cultur...(展开全部)

艾伦•德肖维茨，美国著名法学家。在辛普森杀妻案、克林顿绊闻案与弹劾案、泰森案等一系列备受瞩目的案件中担任辩护律师，同时也是专栏作家、演说家、书评家与畅销书作家，知名度遍及世界，被誉为「当代最伟大的人权律师」。代表作包括《最好的辩护》《大法官的偏见》《性的麦卡锡主义》《法律创世记》《虐待的藉口》《致年轻律师的信》。