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Louis Henkin

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American law scholar (1917-2010)

United StatesAcademicsLived 1917 to 2010 · aged 92
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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.

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2010Eleanor Roosevelt Award for Human Rights
Guggenheim Fellowship
Manley-O.-Hudson medal
Silver Star

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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.

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United States
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Academics
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deceased
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Lived 1917 to 2010 · aged 92
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