Book contents
- The Law of Strangers
- The Law of Strangers
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- About the Contributors
- Introduction
- Part I Hersch Zvi Lauterpacht
- Part 2 Hans Kelsen
- Part 3 Louis Henkin
- Part 4 Egon Schwelb
- 7 The Via Media
- 8 “Emotional Restraint” as Legalist Internationalism
- Part 5 René Cassin
- Part 6 Shabtai Rosenne
- Part 7 Julius Stone
- Index
8 - “Emotional Restraint” as Legalist Internationalism
Egon Schwelb’s Liberalism After the Fall
from Part 4 - Egon Schwelb
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 01 July 2019
- The Law of Strangers
- The Law of Strangers
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- About the Contributors
- Introduction
- Part I Hersch Zvi Lauterpacht
- Part 2 Hans Kelsen
- Part 3 Louis Henkin
- Part 4 Egon Schwelb
- 7 The Via Media
- 8 “Emotional Restraint” as Legalist Internationalism
- Part 5 René Cassin
- Part 6 Shabtai Rosenne
- Part 7 Julius Stone
- Index
Summary
Egon Schwelb is an intriguing figure in the history of international law – a key member of a generation of jurists, diplomats, state functionaries, and international civil servants who devoted their lives and careers to the project of securing peace through law. He is also a largely forgotten figure. Aside from sporadic references to his work in the growing literature on the histories of international criminal law and international human rights law, Schwelb enjoys little recognition for the years he committed to the United Nations and the international legal order it signified and spearheaded. Siegelberg’s analysis of this Czech Jewish émigré jurist is thus most welcome, providing a nuanced and well-researched study that sheds significant light upon the shift from minority protection to individualistic human rights following World War II.
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- The Law of StrangersJewish Lawyers and International Law in the Twentieth Century, pp. 167 - 174Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2019