The Law of Strangers: Jewish Lawyers and International Law in the Twentieth Century - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1107140412 ISBN 13: 9781107140417

Verlag: Cambridge University Press, 2019

Inhaltsangabe

From the Nuremberg Trials onwards, Jews figure prominently in international legal history. Yet ties between Jewish identity and legal thought rarely receive critical analysis. Here, fourteen historians and legal scholars employ interdisciplinary methods and new sources to reconsider the lives and ideas of seven famous international Jewish lawyers.

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Reseña del editor:

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.

Biografía del autor:

James Loeffler is Jay Berkowitz Professor of Jewish History at the University of Virginia and former Dean's Visiting Scholar at the Georgetown University Law Center. He is the author of Rooted Cosmopolitans: Jews and Human Rights in the Twentieth Century (2018).

Moria Paz is a Fellow at the Law School, Stanford University, California and the Center for National Security and the Law at Georgetown University Law Center. She is the author of the forthcoming book, Network or State?: International Law and the History of Jewish Self-Determination.

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• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2019
• ISBN 10: 1107140412
• ISBN 13: 9781107140417
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 318
• Herausgeber: Loeffler James, Paz Moria