TY  - BOOK
AU  - Paz,Reut Yael
TI  - A gateway between a distant god and a cruel world: the contribution of Jewish German-speaking scholars to international law 
T2  - The Erik Castren Institute monographs on international law and human rights
SN  - 9789004228740
AV  - KZ1242 .P39 2012
U1  - 341/.1 23
CY  - Leiden, Boston
PB  - M. Nijhoff Pub.
KW  - International law
KW  - History
KW  - Jewish scholars
KW  - Germany
KW  - Jews
KW  - Religion and law
KW  - LAW / International
KW  - bisacsh
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; Preliminary Material -- Introduction -- Historical Background -- Jews, Universities and International Law -- First Steps towards Jewish Gateways to God in International Law -- Dramatis Personae: Background, Career, Intellectual ‘Seasons’ and Judaic Affiliations -- The Gateways to God of the Dramatis Personae -- Ascertaining the Gateways to God – First Illustration -- Ascertaining the Gateways to God – Second Illustration -- Conclusions -- Bibliography -- Index; Available to subscribing member institutions only
N2  - Through a collective biographical methodology of four scholars (Hans Kelsen, Hans J. Morgenthau, Hersch Lauterpacht and Erich Kaufmann) this book investigates how Jewish identity and intellectual ties to Judaic civilisation in the German speaking and legal context influenced international law. By using biblical constitutive metaphors, it argues that Jewish German lawyers inherited, inter alia , a particular Jewish legal approach that ‘made’ their understanding of the law as a means to reach God. The overarching argument is that because of their Jewish heritage, Jewish scholars inherited the endorsement of earthly particularism for the sake of universalism and the other way around: for the sake of universalism, humanity’s differences need to be solved through the law
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/9789004228740
ER  -