Wolfgang Friedmann

Wolfgang Gaston Friedmann (25 January 1907 – 20 September 1972) was a German American legal scholar. Specializing in international law, he was a faculty member at Columbia Law School.^[1][2]

Born in Berlin, Friedmann finished his studies of law at the Humboldt University of Berlin in 1930. Being Jewish, he immigrated to the United States shortly after the Nazis' seizure of power in Germany.

Prior to 1955 he was a professor at the university of Toronto law school in Toronto.

In 1955, he became a professor of international law at Columbia University, where he founded the Columbia Journal of Transnational Law.^[3] In 1972, he was robbed and stabbed to death near Columbia campus in Manhattan.^[4] The Wolfgang Friedmann Memorial Award was established in his honor.^[5]

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Further reading[]

• Bell, John (2004). "Wolfgang Friedmann (1907–1972), with an Excursus on Gustav Radbruch (1878–1949)". In Beatson, J.; Zimmermann, R. (eds.). Jurists Uprooted: German-speaking Émigré Lawyers in Twentieth-century Britain. New York: Oxford University Press. pp. 517–534. ISBN 0-19-927058-9.

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