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The Life of Hersch Lauterpacht
Elihu Lauterpacht
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hardcover. A biography of Hersch Lauterpacht, one of the most influential international lawyers of the first half of the twentieth century. Num Pages: 518 pages, 26 b/w illus. BIC Classification: BG; LAT; LB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 252 x 160 x 38. Weight in Grams: 1024. 518 pages, 26 b/w illus. A biography of Hersch Lauterpacht, one of the most influential international lawyers of the first half of the twentieth century. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational. BIC Classification: BG; LAT; LB. Dimension: 252 x 160 x 38. Weight: 1024.
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. ... Read more
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. ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Number of pages
518
Condition
New
Number of Pages
518
Place of Publication
Cambridge, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781107000414
SKU
V9781107000414
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99-10
About Elihu Lauterpacht
Sir Elihu Lauterpacht, CBE, QC has had a distinguished career in international law, combining teaching and practice on an extensive scale. He was called to the Bar in 1950, became a QC in 1970, and has practised extensively before the International Court of Justice and other international jurisdictions, as well as before the English courts. He was ad hoc judge ... Read more
Reviews for The Life of Hersch Lauterpacht
Review of the hardback: 'Hersch Lauterpacht was widely and rightly regarded as the greatest international legal scholar of the twentieth century. His brilliant if too brief tenure as a judge of the International Court of Justice matched his scholarly attainments. His son Elihu has now written a superb biography of his father that will attract the admiration of the international ... Read more