Book contents
- The Law of Strangers
- The Law of Strangers
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- About the Contributors
- Introduction
- Part I Hersch Zvi Lauterpacht
- Part 2 Hans Kelsen
- Part 3 Louis Henkin
- 5 Louis Henkin, Human Rights, and American Jewish Constitutional Patriotism
- 6 Constitutionalism, Human Rights, and the Genealogy of Jewish American Liberalism
- Part 4 Egon Schwelb
- Part 5 René Cassin
- Part 6 Shabtai Rosenne
- Part 7 Julius Stone
- Index
6 - Constitutionalism, Human Rights, and the Genealogy of Jewish American Liberalism
from Part 3 - Louis Henkin
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 01 July 2019
Book contents
- The Law of Strangers
- The Law of Strangers
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- About the Contributors
- Introduction
- Part I Hersch Zvi Lauterpacht
- Part 2 Hans Kelsen
- Part 3 Louis Henkin
- 5 Louis Henkin, Human Rights, and American Jewish Constitutional Patriotism
- 6 Constitutionalism, Human Rights, and the Genealogy of Jewish American Liberalism
- Part 4 Egon Schwelb
- Part 5 René Cassin
- Part 6 Shabtai Rosenne
- Part 7 Julius Stone
- Index
Summary
Samuel Moyn has written a brilliantly detailed yet wide-ranging essay about Louis Henkin’s “drastic self-reinvention” as “the leading American legal advocate of human rights.” What light, asks Moyn, does Henkin’s Jewishness shed on his emergence as “the premier [American] contributor” to the international human rights movement? What did Judaism or Jewishness have to do with it? And what does that, in turn, tell us about the shape and arc of American Jewish politics and identities and their relationship to human rights advocacy in the twentieth century?
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- The Law of StrangersJewish Lawyers and International Law in the Twentieth Century, pp. 118 - 140Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2019