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THE LIFE OF
SIR HERSCH LAUTERPACHT,
QC, FBA, LLD
Hersch Lauterpacht, of whom this book is an intimate biography by his son,
Elihu,wasoneofthemostprolificandinfluentialinternationallawyersofthe
firsthalfofthetwentiethcentury.HavingcometoEnglandintheearly1920s,he
firstresearchedandtaughtattheLondonSchoolofEconomicsbeforemoving
toCambridgein1937tobecomeWhewellProfessorofInternationalLaw.He
didvaluableworktoenhancerelationswiththeUnitedStatesduringtheSecond
World War, and was active after the war in the prosecution of William Joyce
andthemajorNaziwarcriminals.Fortenyearshewasalsoinvolvedinvarious
significant items of professional work and in 1955 he was elected a judge of
the International Court of Justice. The book contains many extracts from his
correspondence,the interestof which will extend to lawyers, historians of the
periodandbeyond.
sir elihu lauterpacht, cbe, qc hashadadistinguishedcareerininter-
national law, combining teaching and practice on an extensive scale. He was
calledtotheBarin1950,becameaQCin1970,andhaspractisedextensively
beforetheInternationalCourtofJusticeandotherinternationaljurisdictions,
as well as before the English courts. He was ad hoc judge in the Bosnia case
beforetheInternationalCourt,hasbeenanarbitratorinNAFTA,ICSIDand
otherarbitrations,PresidentoftheEastAfricanCommonMarketTribunal,ofa
PaneloftheUNCompensationCommission,theWorldBankandAsianDevel-
opmentBankAdministrativeTribunalsandoftheEritrea–EthiopiaBoundary
Commission.
THE LIFE OF
SIR HERSCH
LAUTERPACHT,
QC, FBA, LLD
BY
SIR ELIHU LAUTERPACHT
cbe, qc
honorary professor of international law in
the university of cambridge
member of the institut de droit international
fellow of trinity college, cambridge
bencher of gray’s inn
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Tothememoryof
HerschLauterpacht,
andofhisparents,AronandDeborah,
andtheothermembersofhisfamilywhoperishedintheHolocaust;
andtothememoryalsoofhisdevotedwife,RachelLauterpacht,
andherparents,MichaelandGittelSteinberg
CONTENTS
Listofplates pageviii
Acknowledgments x
Listofabbreviations xi
Prologueandintroduction 1
1 Backgroundandearlyyears,1897–1919 9
2 Vienna:research,engagementandmarriage,
1919–1923 26
3 EnglandandtheLondonSchoolofEconomics,
1923–1937 38
4 Cambridge,1937–1939:theWhewellChair 82
5 Thewaryears,Parti:September1939–January1941 100
6 Thewaryears,Partii:February1941–March1942 141
7 Thewaryears,Partiii:April1942–December1944 191
8 Humanrights 251
9 Theyearsofpractice,1945–1950 265
10 1950–1954 332
11 TheInternationalCourtofJustice,1955–1960 373
Epilogue:theman 423
Appendix1 ThepublishedwritingsofSirHerschLauterpacht 430
Appendix2 BiographicalandacademicwritingsonSirHersch
Lauterpacht 443
Appendix3 ObituariesofSirHerschLauterpacht 446
Appendix4 ChronologyofsignificanteventsinthelifeofSirHersch
Lauterpacht 447
Index 467
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PLATES
Theplateswillbefoundbetweenpages372and373.
1 1902 Lauterpachtfamilyportrait.Fromleft,HL,withhisarm
through his father’s, his father, his mother, Deborah (ne´e
Turkenkopf),hissister,Sabka,andhisbrother,Dunek.
2 1913 HLat16,earlyintheFirstWorldWar,takeninLemberg
(Lwo´w)
3 1920c. RL,aged20
4 1922 HL
5 1922 HL with Jewish students in Vienna, Leon Steinig seated
onhisright
6 1922 18 December, HL and RL in Berlin on the day of their
engagement
7 1922 18 December, HL and RL in Berlin on the day of their
engagement
8 1923–4 LSE,InternationalLawclass.HLsecondfromright,front
row;ArnoldMcNairincentreoffrontrow.
9 1932 HLandELonHampsteadHeath,London
10 1933c. HL’smotherandfather,HLbehindhisfather,RLonthe
right,ELinfront
11 1933 RL, HL and EL outside their home at 103 Walm Lane,
Cricklewood,London
12 1935 HLonholidayinSwitzerland
13 1942c. HL in the Cambridge Home Guard. HL is in the third
rowfromthefront,fifthfromtheright.
14 1945 Members of the British prosecution team at Nurem-
berg. Front row, left to right: HL; the Rt Hon.
Sir David Maxwell Fyfe, KC, MP; HM Attorney-
General Sir Hartley Shawcross, KC, MP; Mr G. D.
Roberts, KC; and Mr Patrick Dean of the Foreign
Office. Back row, left to right: Major J. H. Bar-
rington; Major Elwyn Jones MP; Mr E. G. Robey;
Lt-Col. M. Griffith Jones MC; Col. H. J. Phillimore;
MrMauriceRead;andMrBashford.
15 1945c. HLinthegardenat6CranmerRoad,Cambridge.
16 1946 TheBritishteamattheICJintheCorfuChannelhearings.
Fromtheright,SirHartleyShawcross(Attorney-General),
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