A. John Hobbins Writings on John Peters Humphrey
Monographs
Hobbins, A. J., Ed. On the Edge of Greatness: the Diaries of John Humphrey, First Director of the United Nations Division of Human Rights. (Montreal: McGill University Libraries, 1994). (Fontanus Monograph Series).
Volume 1 (1948-1949). 1994
Volume 2 (1950-1951). 1996
Volume 3 (1952-1957). 1998
Volume 4 (1958-1966). 2000
Note: On the Edge of Greatness vol 1 has a good bibliography by and about John prepared by John Hobbins’ colleague Louisa Piatti. Louisa Piatti has also contributed the substantive bibliography which appears in Hobbins, A.J., Ed. On the Edge of Greatness: the Diaries of John Humphrey, First Director of the United Nations Division of Human Rights. Montreal: McGill University Libraries, 1994-2000. (Fontanus Monograph Series). Vol. 4, pp. 166-173.
Journal Articles
"Mentor and Protégé: Percy Corbett relationship with John Peters Humphrey." Forthcoming.
"’Dear Rufus’: a Law Student’s Life at McGill in the Roaring Twenties from the letters of John P. Humphrey." McGill Law Journal XLIV (No. 3, 1999) (in press)
"A Frank Scott Letter from 1937," Fontanus X (1998), 112-115.
"John Peters Humphrey and the Genesis of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights," Journal of Oriental Studies (in press)
"Jyon P. Hanfuri to sekei jinken sengen no engen," Taohao gakuhao XXXVII (No. 2, 1998), 59-81.
"Eleanor Roosevelt, John Humphrey and Canadian Opposition to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights: looking back on the 50th Anniversary." International Journal LIII (Spring, 1998), 325-342.
"John Peters Humphrey: a Crusader for Human Rights" in Patricia Morales (ed.) Towards Global Human Rights. (Tillburg, Netherlands: International Centre for Human and Public Affairs, 1996), 87-90.
"Humphrey and the Old Revolution: Human Rights in the Age of Mistrust." Fontanus VIII (1995), 121-136.
"Canadian Unity in Quebec in 1942: a Roundtable Discussion among John Humphrey, Hugh MacLennan and Émile Vaillancourt". Fontanus VI (1993) pp. 119-141. Partially reprinted and translated as „Le Québec devant l‚unité canadienne‰ Cité libre XXIII (mai-juin, 1995), 11-17.
"Human Rights inside the United Nations: the Humphrey Diaries, 1948-1959". Fontanus IV (1991), 143-173.
"René Cassin and the Daughter of Time: the First Draft of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights". Fontanus II (1989), 7-26.