Title The law of strangers : Jewish lawyers and international law in the twentieth century / edited by James Loeffler, University of Virginia ; Moria Paz, Georgetown University and Stanford University

Published Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2019 ©2019

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Description 1 online resource (xii, 308 pages) Contents The "natural right of the Jewish people": zionism, international law, and the paradox of Hersch Zvi Lauterpacht / James Loeffler -- A closet positivist: Lauterpacht between law and diplomacy / Martti Koskeniemmi -- Assimilation through law: Hans Kelsen and the Jewish experience / Eliav Lieblich -- Philosophy beyond historicism: reflections on Hans Kelsen and the Jewish experience / Leora Batnitzky -- Louis Henkin, human rights, and American-Jewish constitutional patriotism / Samuel Moyn -- Constitutionalism, human rights, and the genealogy of Jewish/American liberalism / William E. Forbath -- The via media: Egon Schwelb's mid-century stoic legalism and the birth of human rights law / Mira Siegelberg -- "Emotional restraint" as legalist internationalism: Egon Schwelb's liberalism after the fall / Umut Özsu -- A most inglorious right: Rene Cassin, freedom of movement, Jews and Palestinians / Moria Paz -- There's no place like home: domicile, René Cassin, and the Aporias of modern international law / Nathaniel Berman -- Shabtai Rosenne: the transformation of Sefton Rowson / Rotem Giladi -- Shabtai Rosenne: a personal aspect / Philippe Sands -- Enablement and constraint: Julius Stone and the contradictions of the sociological path to international law / Jacqueline Mowbray -- An axionormative dissenter: reflections on Julius Stone / David N. Myers Summary From the Nuremberg Trials to contemporary human rights, Jews have long played prominent roles in the making of international law. But the actual ties between Jewish heritage and legal thought remain a subject of mystery and conjecture even among specialists. This volume of biographical studies takes a unique interdisciplinary approach, pairing historians and legal scholars to explore how the Jewish identities and experiences shaped their legal thought and activism. Using newly-discovered sources and sophisticated interpretative methods, this book offers an alternative history of twentieth-century international legal profession - and a new model to the emerging field of international legal biography Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Print version record Subject International law -- History -- 20th century -- Biography Jewish lawyers -- History -- 20th century -- Biography International law -- Religious aspects -- Judaism. International law. International law -- Religious aspects -- Judaism. Jewish lawyers. Genre/Form Biographies. History. Biographies. Biographies. Form Electronic book Author Loeffler, James Benjamin, editor. Paz, Moria, editor. ISBN 9781108666152 1108666159 9781316492826 1316492826

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