Diesel, A Bookstore in Oakland is pleased to welcome UC Berkeley lecturer Kirk Boyd to the shop for a celebratory Launch Party for his new book, 2048: Humanity's Agreement to Live Together, which sets out the visionary, audacious, but achievable goal of drafting an enforceable international agreement that will allow the people of the world to create a social order based upon human rights and the rule of law, on Wednesday, April 14 at 7pm. In 1948 the United Nations General Assembly adopted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, a deeply inspiring document that has been translated into over 300 languages and dialects. But because its provisions are not enforceable, its promise has not been fulfilled. Human rights violations continue in every corner of the globe, the cause of countless individual tragedies as well as large-scale disasters like war, poverty and environmental ruin. Kirk Boyd is a lawyer, professor, and Executive Director of the 2048 Project. He teaches International Human Rights, Civil Rights, International Law, Free Speech, and Constitutional Law at the University of California. Boyd has argued at every level of court, including the United States Supreme Court. He and the 2048 Project aim to have an agreement, the International Convention on Human Rights, in place by the 100th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.