The law of strangers : Jewish lawyers and international law in the twentieth century / edited by James Loeffler, Moria Paz

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Cover -- Half-title page -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- About the Contributors -- Introduction -- Part I Hersch Zvi Lauterpacht -- 1 The ''Natural Right of the Jewish People'': Zionism, International Law, and the Paradox of Hersch Zvi Lauterpacht -- 2 A Closet Positivist: Lauterpacht between Law and Diplomacy -- Part II Hans Kelsen -- 3 Assimilation through Law: Hans Kelsen and the Jewish Experience -- 4 Philosophy beyond Historicism: Reflections on Hans Kelsen and the Jewish Experience -- Part III Louis Henkin -- 5 Louis Henkin, Human Rights, and American Jewish Constitutional Patriotism -- 6 Constitutionalism, Human Rights, and the Genealogy of Jewish American Liberalism -- Part IV Egon Schwelb -- 7 The Via Media: Egon Schwelb's Mid-century Stoic Legalism and the Birth of Human Rights Law -- 8 ''Emotional Restraint'' as Legalist Internationalism: Egon Schwelb's Liberalism After the Fall -- Part V René Cassin -- 9 A Most Inglorious Right: René Cassin, Freedom of Movement, Jews, and Palestinians -- 10 There's No Place Like Home: Domicile, René Cassin, and the Aporias of Modern International Law -- Part VI Shabtai Rosenne -- 11 Shabtai Rosenne: The Transformation of Sefton Rowson -- 12 Shabtai Rosenne: A Personal Aspect -- Part VII Julius Stone -- 13 Enabling and Constraining: Julius Stone and the Contradictions of the Sociological Path to International Law -- 14 An Axionormative Dissenter: Reflections on Julius Stone -- Index.

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.