Background
Henkin, Louis was born on November 11, 1917 in Russia. Came to United States, 1923, naturalized, 1930. Son of Yoseph Elia and Frieda Rebecca (Kreindel) Henkin.
Henkin, Louis was born on November 11, 1917 in Russia. Came to United States, 1923, naturalized, 1930. Son of Yoseph Elia and Frieda Rebecca (Kreindel) Henkin.
AB, Yeshiva College, 1937. Doctor of Humane Letters (honorary), Yeshiva University, 1963. Bachelor of Laws, Harvard University, 1940.
Doctor of Laws, Columbia University, 1995. Juris Doctor (honorary), Brooklyn Law School, 1997. Doctor of Laws (honorary), Jewish Theological Seminary, 2003.
Law clerk to Judge Learned Hand, 1940-1941. Law clerk to Justice Frankfurter, 1946-1947. Consultant legal department United Nations, 1947-1948.
With United States Department State, 1945-1946, 48-57. United States representative United Nations Committee Refugees and Stateless Persons, 1950. Adviser United States delegate United Nations Economic and Social Council, 1950, United Nations General Assembly, 1950-1953, Geneva Conference on Korea, 1954.
Associate director Legislation Drafting Research Fund, lecturer law Columbia University, 1956-1957. Professor law University Pennsylvania, 1958-1962. Professor international law and diplomacy, professor law Columbia University, 1962, member Institute War and Peace Studies, from 1962, Hamilton Fish professor international law and diplomacy, 1963-1978, Harlan Fiske Stone professor constitutional law, 1978-1979, university professor, 1979-1988, university professor emeritus and special service professor, 1988—2010.
Co-director Center for Study of Human Rights, 1978-1986, chairman of directorate, 1986—2010. United States member Permanent Court Arbitration, 1963-1969. Adviser United States Delaware United Nations Conference on Law of the Sea, 1972-1980.
Advisory panel on international law United States Department State, 1975-1980, 93-2010. Human rights committee United States Commission for United Nations Educational, 1977-1980, International Covenant Civil and Political Rights, 1999-2002. Carnegie lecturer Hague Academy International Law, 1965.
Frankel lecturer University Houston, 1969. Gottesman lecturer Yeshiva University, 1975. Lockhart lecturer University Minnesota Law School, 1976.
Francis Biddle lecturer Harvard Law School, 1978. Lecturer Columbia University, 1979. Sherrill lecturer Yale University Law School, 1981.
Jefferson lecturer University Pennsylvania Law School, 1983. Irvine lecturer Cornell University, 1986. Distinguished lecturer College Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University, 1988.
Solf lecturer Judge Advisory General's School, 1988. Cooley lecturer University Michigan Law School, 1988. White lecturer Louisiana State University, 1989.
Principal lecturer The Hague Academy International Law, 1989. Blaine Sloane lecturer Pace University Law School, 1991. Gerber lecturer University Maryland Law School, 1991.
Nathanson lecturer law school University San Diego, 1994. Sibley lecturer University Georgia Law School, 1994. Brandeis lecturer Israel Academy Sciences and Humanities, 1994.
Phi Kappa Phi lecturer, James Madison University, 1996, Doris & A. Leo Levin lecturer Bar Ilan University, Israel, 1996. Consultant to government, president United States Institute Human Rights, 1970-1993, Robert L. Levine lecturer Fordham Law School. Chief reporter American Law Institute, Restatement of the Law (3d), Foreign Relations Law of the United States, 1979-1987.
Board directors Lawyers Committee Human Rights, Immigration and Refugee Services America, vice president, 1994-2010. President American Society International Law, 1992-1994. Visiting professor law University Pennsylvania, 1957-1958.
Member human rights committee International Covenant Civil and Political Rights, 2000-2002.
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Served with Army of the United States, 1941-1945. Fellow American Academy Arts and Sciences. Member Council Foreign Relations, American Society International Law (vice president 1975-1976, 88-90, president 1992-1994, honorary vice president 1994-2010, Goler T. Butcher medal for outstanding contribution to international human rights law 2001), International Law Association (vice president American branch, 1973-2010), American Society Political and Legal Philosophy (president 1985-1987), Institute de Droit International, American Political Science Association, International Association Constitutional Law (vice president 1982-1995, honorary president 1995-2010), United States Association Constitutional Law (honorary president 1997-2010), American Philosophical Society (Henry M. Phillips prize in jurisprudence 2000).
Married Alice Barbara Hartman, June 19, 1960. Children: Joshua, David, Daniel.