Henry King: Ian Holloway.

• Jurisdiction: United States
• Date: 22 March 2010
• Author: Holloway, Ian

In his work, The Poet at the Breakfast Table, the great poet and scholar of medicine, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. said that "it is the province of knowledge to speak and it is the privilege of wisdom to listen." (1) For all of us who are interested in the rule of law, it was our privilege----our very great privilege--to have been able to listen and learn from Henry King for so long.

It is now more than six decades since he first emerged on the stage of international jurisprudence in the rubble of Nuremburg, and through his life's work since, we have been the beneficiaries of a wealth of knowledge which has not only taught us much about the rule of law, but also much about ourselves and about our societies.

Henry King was a graduate of Yale...