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Sir Hersch Lauterpacht (16 August 1897, Zhovkva (), Austrian Galicia , Austria-Hungary (now in Ukraine ) – 8 May 1960) was a member of the United Nations ' International Law Commission from 1952 to 1954 and a Judge of the International Court of Justice from 1955 to 1960. In the words of former ICJ President Stephen M. Schwebel , Judge Sir Hersch Lauterpacht's "attainments are unsurpassed by any international lawyer of this century [...] he taught and wrote with unmatched distinction".S.M. Schwebel, International Arbitration: Three Salient Problems, xiii (Hersch Lauterpacht Memorial Lectures 1987) Sir Hersch's writings and (concurring and dissenting) opinions continue, nearly 50 years after his death, to be cited frequently in briefs, judgments, and advisory opinions of the World Court. He famously said "international law is at the vanishing point of law."http://books.google.com/books?id=jOG9eCMiX_kC&pg=PA195&lpg=PA195&dq=%22International+law+is+at+the+vanishing+point+of+law.%22&source=bl&ots=avOsQxzxD1&sig=ZmOF_908cfD-ov3rPDFkI5XKQBA&hl=en&sa=X&ei=xqUvUdm8Fam02AXI84HYDA&ved=0CD4Q6AEwAg#v=onepage&q=%22International%20law%20is%20at%20the%20vanishing%20point%20of%20law.%22&f=false</ref >
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Sir Hersch Lauterpacht (16 August 1897, Zhovkva (), Austrian Galicia , Austria-Hungary (now in Ukraine ) – 8 May 1960) was a member of the United Nations ' International Law Commission from 1952 to 1954 and a Judge of the International Court of Justice from 1955 to 1960. In the words of former ICJ President Stephen M. Schwebel , Judge Sir Hersch Lauterpacht's "attainments are unsurpassed by any international lawyer of this century [...] he taught and wrote with unmatched distinction".S.M. Schwebel, International Arbitration: Three Salient Problems, xiii (Hersch Lauterpacht Memorial Lectures 1987) Sir Hersch's writings and (concurring and dissenting) opinions continue, nearly 50 years after his death, to be cited frequently in briefs, judgments, and advisory opinions of the World Court. He famously said "international law is at the vanishing point of law."http://books.google.com/books?id=jOG9eCMiX_kC&pg=PA195&lpg=PA195&dq=%22International+law+is+at+the+vanishing+point+of+law.%22&source=bl&ots=avOsQxzxD1&sig=ZmOF_908cfD-ov3rPDFkI5XKQBA&hl=en&sa=X&ei=xqUvUdm8Fam02AXI84HYDA&ved=0CD4Q6AEwAg#v=onepage&q=%22International%20law%20is%20at%20the%20vanishing%20point%20of%20law.%22&f=false</ref >
The Lauterpacht Centre for International Law at the University of Cambridge in the United Kingdom is named after him. His son, Sir Elihu Lauterpacht , CBE, QC, who founded the Centre, was its first director and remains actively involved in its work as Director Emeritus and an Honorary Professor of International Law.
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London : Butterworth & Co., 1940-1955
London : Longmans, Green and Co., 1932-1938
London : Butterworth & Co., 1956-