first rector. Awards and honours In 1967, Akzin was awarded the Israel Prize for Jurisprudence. Selected works Problèmes fondamentaux du droit international publique (1929) The Palestine Mandate in Practice (1939) Studies in Law (editor), Scripta Hierosolymitana, Vol. V (Hebrew University Magnes Press, 1958) New States and International Organizations (1955) The Role of Parties in Israeli Democracy (1961) Torat ha-Mishtarim (1963) State and Nation (Anchor Books, 1964) The political status of Diaspora Jews (the Institute of Contemporary Jewry, 1966) Sugyot ha-Mishpat u-ve-Medina'ut (1966) Riga to Jerusalem (the Library by the World Zionist Organization, 1989) - autobiography published after his death See also List of Israel Prize recipients References 1904 births 1985 deaths 20th-century Latvian Jews University of Vienna alumni University of Paris alumni Harvard Graduate School of Arts and Sciences alumni Academic staff of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem Academic staff of the University of Haifa Israel Prize in law recipients Date of birth missing Date of death missing Latvian expatriates in France Latvian expatriates in Austria Latvian emigrants to the United States American emigrants to Israel