Louis Henkin

Louis Henkin (1917-2010) was a pioneering scholar and professor at Columbia Law School, widely credited with founding the modern field of human rights law. He established Columbia’s Center for the Study of Human Rights in 1978 and the Human Rights Institute in 1998, authoring influential books such as How Nations Behave (1968), Foreign Affairs and the U.S. Constitution (1975), and The Age of Rights (1989). Henkin was a former president of the American Society of International Law and a key figure in international law and U.S. foreign relations.