Louis Henkin was an American legal scholar who lived from 1917 to 2010 and was considered one of the most influential contemporary scholars of international law and the foreign policy of the United States. He served as president of the American Society of International Law and of the American Society for Political and Legal Philosophy, was University Professor emeritus at Columbia Law School, and was until his death chairman of the Center for the Study of Human Rights at Columbia University. He was a member of both the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the American Philosophical Society.
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What was Louis Henkin's part in the 1951 refugee convention?
He was one of the State Department individuals responsible for the 1951 Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees.
Louis Henkin helped shape the 1951 Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees. From 1948 he worked at the United Nations bureau of the United States Department of State, where he was one of the individuals responsible for that agreement. It established the internationally agreed definition of a refugee and the requirements for countries to provide asylum to people so designated.
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He was considered one of the most influential contemporary scholars of international law and the foreign policy of the United States.
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Louis Henkin (November 11, 1917 - October 14, 2010) was an American legal scholar. He was considered one of the most influential contemporary scholars of international law and the foreign policy of the United States.
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Louis Henkin (November 11, 1917 - October 14, 2010) was an American legal scholar.
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He was considered one of the most influential contemporary scholars of international law and the foreign policy of the United States.
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was an American legal scholar
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Wikidata Q1871716, P569 date of birth claim (year)
P569 (date of birth): 1917
Wikidata Q1871716, P569 date of birth claim (full date)
P569 (date of birth): 1917-11-11
Wikidata Q1871716, P570 date of death claim (year)
P570 (date of death): 2010
Wikidata Q1871716, P570 date of death claim (full date)
P570 (date of death): 2010-10-14
Wikidata Q1871716, P19 place of birth claim
P19 (place of birth): Smaĺjany
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P20 (place of death): Manhattan
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