On Monday, September 12, 2011, a Rechtskulturen workshop on "Lauterpacht and Beyond: Jewish/German Authorship and the History of International Law," will take place at the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin Faculty of Law. The program is here. Here's the idea:The one-day conference will discuss the contribution of the German-Jewish legal tradition and its protagonists to the development of international law in the 20th century. Speakers and discussants will examine the life and work of eminent legal scholars, with a particular focus on the biography and scholarly work of Hersch Lauterpacht (1897-1960).
The workshop also marks the re-publication of an outstanding book – arguably the most important English-language book on international law in the 20th century: Hersch Lauterpacht’s "The Function of Law in the International Community," published in 1933 and now re-printed with a new introduction by Martti Koskenniemi. Conference participants will be invited to explore and discuss what this classic of international law (and legal thought in general) has to say to us today.
