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Louis Henkin

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#409
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#573
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#248
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Constitutional Law
#134
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#149
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#89
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International Law
#155
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#218
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According to Wikipedia, Louis Henkin , 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". 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. He was until his death the chairman of the Center for the Study of Human Rights at Columbia University. He was a member of both the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the American Philosophical Society.

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