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- ↑ Özsu, Umut (2019). ""Emotional Restraint" as Legalist Internationalism: Egon Schwelb's Liberalism After the Fall". The Law of Strangers: Jewish Lawyers and International Law in the Twentieth Century. Cambridge University Press. pp. 167–174. ISBN 978-1-107-14041-7.
- ↑ Siegelberg, Mira (2019). "The Via Media: Egon Schwelb's Mid-century Stoic Legalism and the Birth of Human Rights Law". The Law of Strangers: Jewish Lawyers and International Law in the Twentieth Century. Cambridge University Press. pp. 143–166. ISBN 978-1-107-14041-7.
- ↑ "Egon Schwelb, Ex‐Aide Of U.N. Rights Division". The New York Times. 22 March 1979. Retrieved 12 June 2022.
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