The Concept of Group Rights in International Law

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The Concept of Group Rights in International Law is written by Corsin Bisaz and published by Martinus Nijhoff Publishers. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 9004228705 (ISBN 10) and 9789004228702 (ISBN 13).

Through a collective biography of four scholars (Erich Kaufmann, Hans Kelsen, Hersch Lauterpacht and Hans J. Morgenthau) this book investigates how Jewish identity and intellectual ties to Judaic civilization 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 framed 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.