Louis Henkin

University Professor Emeritus

Office:	Jerome L. Greene Hall 435 West 116th Street New York NY 10027
Tel:	212.854.2634
Fax:	212.854.7946
Email:	lhenki@law.columbia.edu

Assistant Info

Name:	Lillian Hoffman
Phone:	212.854.7419

Courses / Current Research
Constitutional Law
International Law
Law and Diplomacy
Human Rights
Law of American Foreign Relations
International and Comparative Human Rights

Education
J.D. (hon.), Brooklyn, 1997
LL.D. Columbia 1995
L.H.D., Yeshiva, 1963
LL.B. Harvard, 1940
B.A., Yeshiva, 1937

Media Contact
Media Relations, (212) 854-2650

Detailed Biography
B.A., Yeshiva, 1937; LL.B. Harvard, 1940; L.H.D., Yeshiva, 1963; LL.D. Columbia 1995; J.D. (hon.), Brooklyn, 1997. Book review editor, Harvard Law Review. Law clerk to Judge Learned Hand and to Justice Felix Frankfurter. After a period as consultant to the United Nations Legal Department, served with the Department of State from 1948 to 1956 in the UN Bureau and in the Office of European Regional Affairs (NATO); represented the U.S. on the committee drafting the Convention on the Status of Refugees; and served on U.S. delegations to the UN and to international conferences. Spent a year at Columbia in 1956-57 as associate director of the Legislative Drafting Research Fund while writing his first book, Arms Control and Inspection in American Law. After five years as professor of law at the University of Pennsylvania, in 1962 joined the Columbia Faculty of Law as well as the faculty of the Department of Political Science in the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences and the School of International and Public Affairs. Was the Hamilton Fish Professor of International Law and Diplomacy and later the Harlan Fiske Stone Professor of Constitutional Law until designated University Professor in 1981. Divides his time and interests among constitutional law, international law, law and diplomacy, and human rights, and has made specialties of the law of American foreign relations and international and comparative human rights. Chairman of the board of directors of the Columbia University Center for the Study of Human Rights; and founding chair and director of the Law School's Institute of Human Rights. The Law School established the Louis Henkin Professorship in Human and Constitutional Rights in his honor. Served as U.S. member, Permanent Court of Arbitration, 1963-69; member, Advisory Panel on International Law, U.S. Department of State, 1967-69, 1975-80, 1993-present; and adviser on the Law of the Sea, 1973-80. President of the American Society of International Law, 1992-94. Coeditor-in-chief, American Journal of International Law, 1976-84. Chief reporter of the American Law Institute's Restatement of the Foreign Relations Law of the United States (Third). Fellow, American Academy of Arts and Sciences; member, Institut de Droit International; member, American Philosophical Society; and member, Human Rights Committee pursuant to International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights. Board of directors, Human Rights First (on leave). Publications include Law for the Sea's Mineral Resources (1968); The Rights of Man Today (1978); How Nations Behave: Law and Foreign Policy (1979); The International Bill of Rights (ed., 1981); The Age of Rights (1989); Constitutionalism, Democracy, and Foreign Affairs (1990); Constitutionalism and Rights: The Influence of the U.S. Constitution Abroad (coed., with Rosenthal, 1990); International Law: Politics and Values (1995); Foreign Affairs and the U.S. Constitution (1996); Human Rights (coed., with D. Leebron, G. L. Neuman, and D. Orentlicher, 1999); International Law: Cases and Materials (coed., 2001); and other books and numerous articles.