![]() ![]() Henkin grew up speaking Yiddish and attended the Rabbi Jacob Joseph School, learning to speak English in the process of helping his father mail letters to other rabbinic scholars across the country. ![]() The family emigrated to the United States in 1923, residing on the Lower East Side of Manhattan. His mother died when he was two years old while she was helping deal with a dysentery outbreak and he and his five siblings were raised by his stepmother. ![]() He was born Eliezer Henkin on November 11, 1917, in Smolyany, in present-day Belarus, the son of Rabbi Yosef Eliyahu Henkin, an authority in Jewish law. He was a member of both the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the American Philosophical Society. He was until his death the chairman of the Center for the Study of Human Rights at Columbia University. He was a former president of the American Society of International Law and of the American Society for Political and Legal Philosophy and University Professor emeritus at Columbia Law School. Louis Henkin (Novem– October 14, 2010), widely considered one of the most influential contemporary scholars of international law and the foreign policy of the United States, who was "often credited with creating the field of human rights law". American Society for Political and Legal Philosophy. ![]()
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