The Law of Strangers
Jewish Lawyers and International Law in the Twentieth Century
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- Editors:
- James Loeffler, University of Virginia
- Moria Paz, Stanford University, California
- Date Published: September 2019
- availability: In stock
- format: Hardback
- isbn: 9781107140417
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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.
Read more- Presents engaging biographical case studies that expand knowledge of key historical figures while contributing to larger questions about Jews and law
- Engages legal specialists, historians, and other scholars interested in the questions of religion, ethnicity, politics, and international law
- Illuminates the state of the field, and the emerging new directions in legal history, international law, and society studies
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'We thought this an intriguing book giving us a concise statement in the following areas: the presentation of engaging biographical case studies that expand knowledge of key historical figures while contributing to larger questions about Jews and law; engaging legal specialists, historians, and other scholars interested in the questions of religion, ethnicity, politics, and international law; and illuminating the state of the field, and the emerging new directions in legal history, international law, and society studies.' Elizabeth Robson and Phillip Taylor, The Barrister
See more reviews‘… this book has to be welcomed by historians as well as by jurists and scholars of international law, representing for all of them a priceless source of inspiration for further research in such an important field.’ G. Motta, European History Quarterly
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28th Jan 2020 by PhillipTaylor
A FASCINATING ANTHOLOGY ON THE LAW OF STRANGERS RECENTLY PUBLISHED BY CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS An appreciation by Elizabeth Robson Taylor of Richmond Green Chambers and Phillip Taylor MBE, Head of Chambers, Reviews Editor, “The Barrister”, and Mediator As the editors, James Loeffler and Moria Paz, write in “The Law of Strangers”, “from the Nuremberg Trials to contemporary human rights, Jews have long played prominent roles in the making of international law”. This book from Cambridge University Press (CUP) examines “Jewish Lawyers and International Law in the Twentieth Century” as its subtitle suggests. However, the actual ties between Jewish heritage and legal thought remain a subject of mystery and conjecture even among specialists which is one of the motivations for this work. It all “grew out of a conversation between the editors that began at an Association of Jewish Studies conference panel in Boston many years ago”. To a certain extent, the book is really a legal history book. The fourteen contributors have been brought together to ponder what insights might emerge from exploring international legal history from “the particular perspective of the Jewishness of some of its most prominent makers in the century spanning the 1870 to the 1970s. What we get as a result of a long-running inquiry from their original conversation. There is an introduction and 14 chapters running to over 300 pages split into 7 parts. From the viewpoint of jurisprudence, we found chapters three and four in part II on Hans Kelsen particularly illuminating as many will have no idea of his immediate family or early childhood – his original name being Kohn or Cohen. As with the rest of the book, there is breath-taking research and attention to detail throughout with substantial footnoting of use to researchers. As the editors’ comment, this collection of biographical studies takes a unique interdisciplinary approach, pairing historians and legal scholars to explore how their Jewish identities and experiences shaped their legal thought and activism. They have used newly-discovered sources and sophisticated interpretative methods to give an alternative history of twentieth-century international legal profession – and “a new model to the emerging field of international legal biography” which will have relevance to a wide-ranging readership. We thought this an intriguing book giving us a concise statement in the following areas: the presentation of engaging biographical case studies that expand knowledge of key historical figures while contributing to larger questions about Jews and law engaging legal specialists, historians, and other scholars interested in the questions of religion, ethnicity, politics, and international law and illuminating the state of the field, and the emerging new directions in legal history, international law, and society studies. The hardback edition of this book was first published on 26th September 2019.
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- Date Published: September 2019
- format: Hardback
- isbn: 9781107140417
- length: 318 pages
- dimensions: 235 x 156 x 22 mm
- weight: 0.59kg
- availability: In stock
Table of Contents
1. Introduction: the law of strangers James Loeffler and Moria Paz
Part I. Hersch Zvi Lauterpacht:
2. The 'natural right of the Jewish people': Zionism, international law, and the paradox of Hersch Lauterpacht James Loeffler
3. A closet positivist: Lauterpacht between law and diplomacy Martti Koskeniemmi
Part II. Hans Kelsen:
4. Assimilation through law: Hans Kelsen and the Jewish experience Eliav Lieblich
5. Philosophy beyond historicism: reflections on Hans Kelsen and the Jewish experience Leora Batnitzky
Part III. Louis Henkin:
6. Louis Henkin, human rights, and American-Jewish constitutional patriotism Samuel Moyn
7. Louis Henkin and the genealogy of Jewish/American liberalism William Forbath
Part IV. Egon Schwelb:
8. Egon Schwelb and the human rights legal activism within borders Mira Siegelberg
9. 'Emotional restraint' as legalist internationalism: Egon Schwelb's liberalism after the fall Umut Özsu
Part V. René Cassin:
10. A most inglorious right: René Cassin, freedom of movement, Jews and Palestinians Moria Paz
11. There's no place like home: domicile, René Cassin, and the Aporias of modern international law Nathaniel Berman
Part VI. Shabtai Rosenne:
12. Shabtai Rosenne: the transformation of Sefton Rowson Rotem Giladi
13. Shabtai Rosenne: a personal aspect Philippe Sands
Part VII. Julius Stone:
14. Enablement and constraint: Julius Stone and the contradictions of the sociological path to international law Jacqueline Mowbray
15. An axionormative dissenter: reflections on Julius Stone David N. Myers
Index.
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