Louis Henkin papers, 1940-2007, 1940-2007, bulk 1980-2005, bulk 1980-2005

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Series I: Biographical Materials, 1940-2007

This series is arranged chronologically unless otherwise noted. Clippings include issues of the Columbia Law School Observer as well as newspaper articles and editorials. CVs and directory bios also include biographical notes for contributor lists and programs. The day planners date from 1966 through 2004 but are not comprehensive. Honors and Awards include certificates, correspondence, diplomas, programs, and speeches. Interviews include an edited transcript of a 1995 conversation with Antonio Cassese and a partial transcript of a 1996 interview with Don Anton. The small file of personal materials includes some business correspondence, a formal appraisal for a collection of Felix Frankfurter's letters that Henkin donated to Harvard Law School, Henkin's "Humor" file (including a 1940 parody issue of Harvard Law Review, which he edited), and correspondence relating to awards and festschrifts. The file is arranged alphabetically by topic. Photographs include two sets of professional portraits and three undated snapshots.



Box 17 Attorney Certifications, 1989-2004, 1 folders


Box 17 Clippings, 1974-2003, 4 folders


Box 17 CVs and Directory Bios, 1965-2005, 6 folders



Box 18 Day Planners, 1966-2004, (17 volumes)



Box 17 Honors and Awards, 1978-2007, 26 folders


Box 17 Interviews, 1995-1996, 2 folders


Box 17 Personal, 1940-2004, 7 folders


Box 17 Photographs, 1985-1995, 3 folders

Series II: Columbia University, 1958-2007

This series covers Henkin's 40+ years as part of the Columbia Law School Faculty. The bulk of the series are course materials from Henkin's teaching activities. Records from Henkin's five years as a professor at the University of Pennsylvania Law School are included, to maintain consistency with Henkin's original arrangement. Records containing FERPA-protected student information arerestricted. The series is divided into three subseries.


Subseries II.1: Administrative Files, 1972-2007

This subseries includes Henkin's participation on formal academic and administrative committees as well as routine announcement transmittals and personnel paperwork with his research and teaching assistants. A very small selection of related correspondence is present. Within each file, folders maintain Henkin's original titling and are arranged alphabetically. Six of the folders within the file of Research and Teaching Assistants include student transcripts, and the relevant folders have beenrestrictedfor eighty years from date of record.



Box 2 Announcements and University Business, 1979-2007, 11 folders


Box 2 Appointments and Committees, 1972-2006, 10 folders



Box 3 Appointments and Committees, 1972-2006, 10 folders


Box 3 Research and Teaching Assistants, 1979-2006, 15 folders


Subseries II.2: Course Materials, 1958-2007

Records from Henkin's five years as a professor at the University of Pennsylvania Law School (1958-1962) are included, to maintain consistency with Henkin's original arrangement. Columbia University material dates from the mid-1990s to the mid-2000s and is arranged by course title. Materials include bound packets of course readings, drafts, lecture outlines, notes, and syllabi. Folders including FERPA-protected student information such as papers and grades arerestrictedfor eighty years from date of record.



Box 1 Comparative Human Rights, 2003


Box 1 Student Papers, 2003, 1 folders


Box 1 Syllabi, 2003, 1 folders


Constitutional Law, 1958-2005


Box 1 Class Notes, 1958-2005, 3 folders


Box 1 Course Evaluations, 1999-2003, 2 folders


Box 1 Exams, 1995-2005, 2 folders


Box 1 Grades, 1996-1998, 1 folders


Box 1 Syllabus, 2002, 1 folders


Constitutionalism in Comparative Perspectives, 1992-2005


Box 1 Student Papers, 2003-2004, 3 folders


Box 1 Syllabi, 1995-2001, 1 folders


Box 1 Weekly Outlines and Readings, 1992-2005, 21 folders



Box 2 Contracts, 1959-1962

(Henkin taught Contracts at the University of Pennsylvania in the late 1950s and early 1960s before coming to Columbia University)


Box 2 Class Notes, 1959-1962, 4 folders


Box 2 Syllabi, 1959, 1 folders


Human Rights, 1990-2004


Box 2 Bibliographies, 1992, 1 folders


Box 2 Course Evaluations, 2002, 1 folders


Box 2 Exams, 1994-2004, 3 folders


Box 2 Syllabi, 1990-2003, 1 folders


Box 2 Weekly Lecture Notes, 1990-2001, 9 folders


Human Rights, Constitutional Rights, 2004-2007


Box 2 Bibliographies, 2004, 1 folders


Box 2 Grades, 2004-2007, 1 folders


Box 2 Student Papers, 2004-2007, 3 folders


Box 2 Syllabi, 2006-2007, 1 folders


Box 2 Weekly Outlines and Readings, 2005, 4 folders


Subseries II.3: Human Rights at Columbia, 1978-2005

Henkin was active in creating a space for human rights scholarship at Columbia University. The University-wide Center for the Study of Human Rights, founded by Henkin in 1978, was expanded into the Institute for the Study of Human Rights in 2010. Materials include conference announcements, a small selection of correspondence, organizational history, minutes, proposals, and reports. Henkin co-founded the Columbia Law School's Human Rights Institute in 1998. Human Rights Institute materials include some minimal correspondence, meeting minutes, and applications for fellowships and Institute positions.



Box 3 Center for the Study of Human Rights, 1978-2005, 6 folders


Box 3 Human Rights Institute, 1998-2004, 6 folders

Series III: Correspondence, 1942-2007

Henkin filed his correspondence by topic, organization, or correspondent name. That arrangement has been preserved, and within each folder, letters are arranged chronologically. Some of the larger topical files include Faculty, Human Rights, and Recommendations. Although transcripts of Henkin's 1942 correspondence with Learned Hand are included, the rest of the material dates from 1966-2007, with the majority dating from the 1990s and 2000s.

Some correspondence was left by Henkin in folders labeled "to be filed" or "miscellaneous" and these letters have not been integrated into the alphabetical series. They have been arranged roughly chronologically. The bulk of this correspondence dates from 1996-2001.


Box 3 Alphabetical, 1942-2007, 132 folders



Box 4 Alphabetical, 1942-2007, 132 folders



Box 5 Alphabetical, 1942-2007, 132 folders


Box 5 Chronological, 1984-2005, 34 folders



Box 6 Chronological, 1984-2005, 34 folders

Series IV: Professional Activity, 1957-2007

Henkin was involved with a number of non-profits and professional organizations related to his research interests. He founded Lawyers Committee for Human Rights in 1978 (now Human Rights First) and was active in the Aspen Institute, particularly the Justice and Society program directed by his wife. He was also an elected member of the American Philosophical Society and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Major organizational activity is filed, alphabetically, under Organizations. Briefer activities, including his work with the Council of Europe and the Advisory Committee on International Law, are filed under Other Memberships. Materials include agendas, announcements, clippings, conference programs, correspondence, meeting minutes, reading lists and excerpts, and reports.


Box 6 Conferences and Symposia, 1987-2007, 12 folders


Organizations, 1957-2006


Box 6 American Journal for International Law, 1989-2006, 2 folders



Box 7 American Law Institute Restatement of Foreign Relations Law of the United States,, 1957-1984, (8 folders, 35 volumes)

(Henkin served as the Chief Reporter for theRestatement (Third) of Foreign Relations Lawpublished in 1987. As reference material, this file also includes drafts and reports from the first Restatement from the 1950s and 1960s. For the third Restatement, there are three sets of bound drafts: a "Preliminary Draft" submitted to the Advisers of the Restatement, a "Council Draft" submitted by the Advisers to the full ALI Council, and a "Tentative Draft" submitted by the Council to the general ALI membership.)



Box 8 American Law Institute Restatement of Foreign Relations Law of the United States,, 1957-1984, (8 folders, 35 volumes)

(Henkin served as the Chief Reporter for theRestatement (Third) of Foreign Relations Lawpublished in 1987. As reference material, this file also includes drafts and reports from the first Restatement from the 1950s and 1960s. For the third Restatement, there are three sets of bound drafts: a "Preliminary Draft" submitted to the Advisers of the Restatement, a "Council Draft" submitted by the Advisers to the full ALI Council, and a "Tentative Draft" submitted by the Council to the general ALI membership.)



Box 6 American Philosophical Society, 1990-2006, 9 folders


Box 6 American Society of International Law, 1982-2006, 4 folders


Box 6 Aspen Institute, 1988-2005, 12 folders



Box 9 Ford Foundation, 1991-1993, 3 folders


Box 9 Human Rights First, 1989-2006, 8 folders


Box 9 Institut de Droit International, 1992-2005, 6 folders


Box 9 Instituto Interamericano de Derechos Humanos, 1986-1993, 5 folders


Box 9 International Association of Constitutional Law, 1983-2004, 9 folders


Box 9 Other Memberships, 1980-2004, 17 folders

Series V: Subject Files, 1950-2007

This series consists of topical materials that Henkin filed separately. There is some overlap with other series, particularly his course materials on Human Rights and International Law, but his original arrangement has been maintained. Records in this series include articles by Henkin and other scholars, citations searches from Westlaw, clippings, correspondence, government publications, journals, legal briefs and opinions, and symposia programs. Materials are arranged alphabetically by topic.



Box 10 Amicus Briefs and Court Opinions, 1968-2005, 8 folders


Box 10 China, 1979-1993, 5 folders


Box 10 Constitutionalism, 1982-2005, 9 folders


Box 10 Europe, 1990-1996, 2 folders



Box 11 Extradition and the Alien Tort Claims Act, 1966-2004, 4 folders



Box 10 France, 1984-2000, 6 folders


Box 10 Free Speech, 1989-1992, 2 folders



Box 11 Human Rights, 1977-2006, 15 folders



Box 10 International Law, 1979-2006, 7 folders


Box 10 Israel, 1988-2005, 2 folders



Box 11 Japan, 1992-1993, 2 folders


Box 11 Law Reviews, 1997-2007, 14 folders



Box 12 Law Reviews, 1997-2007, 14 folders


Box 12 Refugees, 1950-2005, 8 folders


Box 12 South Africa, 1982-1986, 2 folders


Box 12 Terrorism and War, 1984-2005, 10 folders


Box 12 Torture, 2003-2007, 3 folders


Box 12 Treaties, 1987-2004, 7 folders

Series VI: United Nations, 1981-2005

This series is divided into two subseries. The Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) is a major organ of the United Nations and includes the subsidiary Commission on Human Rights and various sub-commissions. The more substantive subseries is from the Human Rights Committee, a treaty body of the United Nations implemented under the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights. Henkin was one of the 18 appointed experts from 1999-2002. The HRC provides recommendations on reports and individual complaints submitted by states and their citizens.


Subseries VI.1: Economic and Social Council, 1981-2004

This subseries includes occasional reports and correspondence from the ECOSOC's human rights bodies. Most of the material was sent as courtesy copies to Henkin in response to his involvement in international human rights law. Materials are arranged chronologically.


Box 12 Commission on Human Rights, 1989-2004, 2 folders


Box 12 Sub-Commission on Prevention of Discrimination and Protection of Minorities,, 1981-1988, 5 folders


Subseries VI.2: Human Rights Committee, 1993-2005

Materials in this subseries include some correspondence between Human Rights Committee members, individual complaints, and records and decisions from the committee's plenary sessions. The bulk of the subseries are the country reports, which consist of states party reports to be discussed in plenary sessions, as well as notes and supporting reports from organizations like Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch. Materials are arranged chronologically.



Box 13 Correspondence, 1999-2005, 2 folders


Country Reports, 1993-2003


Box 13 Argentina, 1995-2000, 5 folders


Box 13 Australia, 1994-2000, 6 folders


Box 13 Croatia, 1996-2001, 4 folders


Box 13 Czech Republic, 2000-2001, 4 folders


Box 13 Democratic People's Republic of Korea, 1995-2003, 10 folders


Box 13 Denmark, 1995-1999, 1 folders


Box 13 Dominican Republic, 1993-2001, 5 folders


Box 13 Gabon, 1999-2000, 1 folders


Box 13 Guatemala, 1994-2001, 5 folders



Box 14 Ireland, 1998-2000, 5 folders


Box 14 Kuwait, 1998-2000, 3 folders


Box 14 Kyrgyzstan, 1997-2000, 4 folders


Box 14 Monaco, 1994-2001, 1 folders


Box 14 Peru, 1996-2000, 6 folders


Box 14 Syria, 1999-2001, 5 folders


Box 14 Trinidad and Tobago, 1999-2000, 2 folders


Box 14 Uzbekistan, 1999-2001, 6 folders


Box 14 Venezuela, 1999-2001, 4 folders



Box 15 Individual Complaints, 1997-2001, 7 folders


Box 15 Plenary Session Decisions, 2000-2002, 9 folders

Series VII: Writings, 1956-2005

Henkin was a prolific writer and speaker, and this series includes materials from throughout his career, although the majority dates from the early 1990s through 2002. Articles include related correspondence, drafts, and offprints, and are arranged by year and then alphabetically by title. The bulk of the Books file is publication agreements, royalty statements, reviews, and related correspondence. The file is arranged alphabetically by book title and includes materials from various revisions and reprintings. Conference Proceedings include some of Henkin's published speeches and reprints of his Congressional testimony, and is arranged by date. Unpublished Speeches and Typescripts include notes and typescripts, along with some related correspondence, filed chronologically. Henkin usually spoke extemporaneously from notes, but frequently formalized his notes after the event for potential later publication and those drafts are included here.


Box 15 Articles, 1956-2005, 111 folders



Box 16 Articles, 1956-2005, 111 folders


Box 16 Books, 1973-2005, 31 folders


Box 16 Conference Proceedings, 1965-2002, 20 folders



Box 17 Unpublished Speeches and Typescripts, 1974-2004, 45 folders