# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/louis-henkin
# Generated: 2026-08-14T17:57:22.917Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/louis-henkin"
name: "Louis Henkin"
slug: "louis-henkin"
description: "Louis Henkin was an American legal scholar. He was considered one of the most influential contemporary scholars of international law and the foreign policy of the United States. He was a former president of the American Society of International Law and of the American Society for Political and Legal Philosophy and University Professor emeritus at Columbia Law School. He was until his death the chairman of the Center for the Study of Human Rights at Columbia University. He was a member of both the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the American Philosophical Society."
tagline: "American law scholar (1917–2010)"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Academics"
  slug: "academics"
profileType:
  name: "Academic"
  slug: "academic"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1917-11-11"
deathDate: "2010-10-14"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           40.24
  momentum:             0.1923076923076923
  historical:           5.678114666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_Henkin"
    title: "Louis Henkin"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_Henkin"
    title: "Louis Henkin"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_Henkin"
    title: "Louis Henkin"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A5%D0%B5%D0%BD%D0%BA%D0%B8%D0%BD%2C_%D0%9B%D1%83%D0%B8%D1%81"
    title: "Хенкин, Луис"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%9C%D7%95%D7%90%D7%99%D7%A1_%D7%94%D7%A0%D7%A7%D7%99%D7%9F"
    title: "לואיס הנקין"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://hy.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D4%BC%D5%B8%D6%82%D5%AB%D5%BD_%D5%80%D5%A5%D5%B6%D5%AF%D5%AB%D5%B6"
    title: "Լուիս Հենկին"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1871716"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump