The life of Sir Hersch Lauterpacht, QC, FBA, LLD / by Elihu Lauterpacht.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lauterpacht, Elihu, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Lauterpacht, Hersch, 1897-1960.

Lauterpacht, Hersch.

Lawyers--Austria--Biography.

Lawyers.

Austria.

Genre:

Biographies.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xii, 505 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2010.

System Details:

text file

PDF

Summary:

Hersch Lauterpacht, of whom this book is an intimate biography by his son, Elihu, was one of the most prolific and influential international lawyers of the first half of the twentieth century. Having come to England from Austria in the early 1920s, he first researched and taught at the London School of Economics before moving to Cambridge in 1937 to become Whewell Professor of International Law. He did valuable work to enhance relations with the United States during the Second World War and was active after the war in the prosecution of William Joyce and the major Nazi war criminals. For ten years he was also involved in various significant items of professional work and in 1955 he was elected a judge of the International Court of Justice. The book contains many extracts from his correspondence, the interest of which will extend to lawyers, historians of the period and beyond.

Contents:

Prologue and introduction

Background and early years, 1897-1919

Vienna : research, engagement and marriage, 1919-1923

England and the London School of Economics, 1923-1937

Cambridge, 1937-1939 : the Whewell Chair

The war years, part I : September 1939-January 1941

The war years, part II : February 1941-March 1942

The war years, part III : April 1942-December 1944

Human rights

The years of practice, 1945-1950

1950-1954

The International Court of Justice, 1955-1960

Epilogue: The man.

Notes:

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ISBN:

9780511723278

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