 He gave his final speech in the House of Lords on 22 March 1999, the day he died.In 1954, he delivered the Albert Shaw Lectures on Diplomatic History at Johns Hopkins University for that year, with the lectures later published as "Foreign Policy and the Democratic Process".He became governor of the University of Haifa, and was knighted in 1980 and elevated to a life peerage with the title Baron Beloff, "of Wolvercote in the County of Oxfordshire" on 26 May 1981.