In celebration of International Education Week, the Marx Law Library and UC Libraries collaborated on a display in support of UC’s First-Year Student Common Reading Program and the book Justice. The display, titled “Justice Around the World: Human Rights and Human Wrongs,” features the College of Law’s Human Rights Quarterly and the Pennsylvania Studies in Human Rights.  Both are edited by Bert Lockwood, Distinguished Service Professor of Law and Director, Urban Morgan Institute for Human Rights. The display, on view through the end of the semester, is located on the 4^th floor lobby of  Langsam Library.

The U.N.’s Universal Declaration of Human Rights occupies the center of the display because it was the first statement (1948) that defined and declared support for human rights by nearly all nations. The right side of the display describes the Urban Morgan Human Rights Institute, the Human Rights Quarterly, and the Pennsylvania Studies in Human Rights and includes samples of those publications. The left side includes photographs and captions from recent, egregious violations of human rights from all over the world. A bibliography of the works included in the display, along with other titles from the Pennsylvania Studies in Human Rights, is available for take away at the display as well as online at humanrwbibliography (pdf).

The display was curated by James Hart, associate senior reference librarian in the Law Library, and Olga Hart, reference and instructional librarian in Langsam Library, and designed by communications design co-op and junior DAAP student Carley Amalong.

The First-Year Student Common Reading Program chose Michael Sandel’s Justice: What’s the Right Thing to Do? as this year’s book. The book will be read both in and out of class by students, faculty, librarians, residence hall staff, and others. The purpose of the Common Reading Program is to “provide an opportunity for an integrated experience for all members of the University of Cincinnati community and will demonstrate the interconnectedness of seemingly unrelated disciplines to our students.” (http://www.uc.edu/welcomeweekend/‌FYCommonReading.html