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Gateway between a Distant God and a Cruel World

The Contribution of Jewish German-Speaking Scholars to International Law

Av Reut Yael Paz

Del 16 i serien Erik Castrén Institute Monographs on International Law and Human Rights

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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.
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Reut Yael Paz, Ph.D. (2009) in international law/politics. Paz has conducted her research on the ‘Jewish question’ within the international legal framework at the University of Helsinki, Bar Ilan University (Israel) and at the Humboldt University in Berlin.

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"I found this book fascinating reading, particularly because of the mosaic-like quality of the author’s narrative style and her ability to bring together a number of interesting trends, biographical material, and reconstructed academic debates, and its innovative rooting (indirectly) of modern theories of international law with biblical hermeneutics."Peter Petkoff, Oxford Journal of Law and Religion, Vol. 2, No. 2 (2013), pp. 483–490.

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