Louis Henkin, In Memoriam (deceased)

University Professor Emeritus, Columbia University
Chair, University Center for the Study of Human Rights
Director, Human Rights Institute, Columbia Law School

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Louis Henkin was University Professor Emeritus at Columbia University, Chair of the University Center for the Study of Human Rights, and Director of the Human Rights Institute at Columbia Law School.  He was also an Affiliate at the Arnold A. Saltzman Institute of War and Peace Studies at Columbia University.  Henkin passed away on October 14, 2010 at the age of 92.

Before his appointment as University Professor in 1981, Henkin held chairs in International Law and Diplomacy, and in Constitutional Law.  After serving as law clerk to Judge Learned Hand and to Justice Felix Frankfurter and as an officer of the United States Department of State, he turned to academic life, first at the University of Pennsylvania, then at Columbia Law School.  Among various public and professional activities, Henkin was the Chief Reporter of the Restatement of Foreign Relations Law of the United States, Co-Editor-in-Chief of the American Journal of International Law, President of the American Society of International Law, and Member of the U.N. Human Rights Committee monitoring the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights.

Henkin received a B.A. from Yeshiva University, an LL.B. from Harvard University, an L.H.D. from Yeshiva University, and an LL.D. from Columbia University.  He also received an honorary J.D. from Brooklyn Law.

Selected Publications

International Law: Politics and Values (Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1995)

The Age of Rights (Columbia University Press, 1990)

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Constitutionalism, Democracy and Foreign Affairs (Columbia University Press, 1990)

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“Foreign Affairs and the Constitution.” Foreign Affairs (Winter 1987/1988)

The Rights of Man Today (Westview Press, 1978)

How Nations Behave: Law and Foreign Policy (Council on Foreign Relations, 1968)

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Arms Control and Inspection in American Law (Columbia University Press, 1958)

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