| LC control no. | n 50031151 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Henkin, Louis |
| Variant(s) | Henkin, Eliezer Henkin, Lazar Henkin, Louie |
| See also | Founded corporate body: Columbia University. Center for the Study of Human Rights Founded corporate body: Human Rights Institute (Columbia University. School of Law) |
| Other standard no. | 0000000108835617 |
| Associated place | Lower East Side (New York, N.Y.) |
| Birth date | 1917-11-11 |
| Death date | 2010-10-14 |
| Place of birth | Belarus |
| Place of death | Manhattan (New York, N.Y.) |
| Field of activity | Human rights Constitutional law International law |
| Affiliation | Columbia University Aspen Institute. Justice and Society Program |
| Found in | His Arms control and inspection in American law, 1958. The International Bill of Rights, 1981: t.p. (Louis Henkin) CIP data sheet (b. 11/11/17) nuc88-118839: Le Contrò‚le des armes, 1961 (hdg. on GU-L rept.: Henkin, Louis M.; usage: Louis M. Henkin) Human rights [VR] 1995: series guide (Professor Louis Henkin, Columbia University; speaker) 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.) |
| Associated language | eng |
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