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Variants
- Henkin, Eliezer
- Henkin, Lazar
- Henkin, Louie
Identifies LC/NAF RWO
Identifies RWO
Birth Date
- 1917-11-11
Death Date
- 2010-10-14
Has Affiliation
- Affiliation Start: 1963
- Organization: Columbia University
Has Affiliation
- Organization: Aspen Institute. Justice and Society Program
Birth Place
- Belarus
Associated Language
- English
Field of Activity
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Sources
- found: His Arms control and inspection in American law, 1958.
- found: The International Bill of Rights, 1981:t.p. (Louis Henkin) CIP data sheet (b. 11/11/17)
- found: nuc88-118839: Le Contrôle des armes, 1961(hdg. on GU-L rept.: Henkin, Louis M.; usage: Louis M. Henkin)
- found: Human rights [VR] 1995:series guide (Professor Louis Henkin, Columbia University; speaker)
- found: New York times WWW site, Oct. 19, 2010(in obituary published Oct. 16: Louis Henkin; b. Eliezer Henkin, Nov. 11, 1917, in present-day Belarus; in 1923 the family immigrated to the Lower East Side of Manhattan, where Lazar, as his family called him, acquired the nickname Louie; by the time he began studying mathematics at Yeshiva College, he had adopted the first name Louis; d. Thursday [Oct. 14, 2010], Manhattan, aged 92; legal scholar often credited with creating the field of human rights law and the author of classic works on constitutional law and the legal aspects of foreign policy; Through his teaching at Columbia University, where he founded the Center for the Study of Human Rights in 1978 and the Human Rights Institute in 1998, and through seminars run by the Aspen Institute's Justice and Society Program, he trained hundreds of legal specialists and advocates in the field of human rights law.)
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Change Notes
- 1980-06-12: new
- 2023-09-06: revised
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