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Louis Henkin (1917-2010), Lori Fisler Damrosch
Louis Henkin (1917-2010), Lori Fisler Damrosch
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Louis Henkin died in New York City on October 14, 2010, a few weeks short of his ninetythird birthday. He was in a class by himself at the intersection of international law, international politics, and the constitutional law of foreign relations in the second half of the twentieth century and the first years of the new millennium.
Louis Henkin: Courage And Convictions, Lori Fisler Damrosch
Louis Henkin: Courage And Convictions, Lori Fisler Damrosch
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Louis Henkin was a man of courage and of convictions. His students at Columbia, who engaged with him inside and outside the classroom during the course of five decades, had many opportunities to learn of his convictions, which were manifest in his teaching, writing and activism. But Henkin would not have spoken in the classroom of his own acts of courage, exemplified by (but not limited to) his combat service in the Second World War, nor would he have drawn attention to other personal virtues. This brief tribute (complementary to others being written by colleagues at Columbia for publication here …