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#3901

Heinrich Triepel

1868 - 1946 (78 years)

Heinrich Triepel was a German jurist and legal philosopher. Life From 1913, he was professor of law in Berlin. He took critical aim at legal positivism, which at the time was the dominant legal conception in the German-speaking world. He was member of Free Conservative Party.

#3902

Nathan Feinsinger

1902 - 1983 (81 years)

Nathan Paul Feinsinger was a professor of law at the University of Wisconsin Law School. He mediated and arbitrated a number of strikes, and served as general counsel to the Wisconsin Labor Relations Board and associate general counsel to the National War Labor Board .

#3903

John Kaplan

1929 - 1989 (60 years)

John Kaplan was a legal scholar, social scientist, social justice advocate, popular law professor, and author. He was a leading authority in the field of criminal law, and was widely known for his legal analyses of some of the deepest social problems in the United States. He was known for his work linking sociological research with legal policies, and limiting academic legal theory with real-world sociological data. He was an advocate for ending criminal prohibitionss on private behavior such as drug use, arguing that these laws only made any problems worse.

#3904

Ralph W. Aigler

Ralph W. Aigler

1885 - 1964 (79 years)

Ralph W. Aigler was an American law professor at the University of Michigan from 1910–1954, the University's faculty representative to the Big Ten Conference from 1917 to 1955, and chairman of Michigan's Faculty Board in Control of Athletics from 1917 to 1942. Aigler was a renowned expert on real property law and one of the advisors to the American Law Institute in the drafting of the Restatement of the Law of Property. He is best known, however, for his contributions to the athletics programs at the University of Michigan. Aigler's contributions included leading Michigan back into the Big Te...

#3905

James Leslie Brierly

1881 - 1955 (74 years)

James Leslie Brierly was an English scholar of international law. James Leslie Brierly was born on 9 September 1881 in Huddersfield to Emily Sykes and Sydney Herbert Brierly. Brierly was a professor of law at the University of Manchester from 1920, Chichele Professor of International Law and Diplomacy at the University of Oxford from 1922 to 1947, and the first Montague Burton Professor of International Relations at the University of Edinburgh from 1948 to 1951.

#3906

Muriel Bell

1898 - 1974 (76 years)

Muriel Emma Bell was a New Zealand nutritionist and medical researcher. Early life Bell was born in Murchison, New Zealand on 4 January 1898, the daughter of Thomas, a farmer, and Eliza . Bell attended the local school in Murchison. In 1907, her mother was killed, and her father injured, in a tramcar accident in Wellington and her father consequently had to give up farming. He moved the family to Nelson and later became Mayor of Richmond.

#3907

William Jethro Brown

1868 - 1930 (62 years)

William Jethro Brown , commonly referred to as Jethro Brown, was an Australian jurist and Professor of Law. Early life Brown was the son of James Brown, a farmer, and his wife Sophia Jane, née Torr, and was born at Mintaro, South Australia. Brown was educated at Stanley Grammar School, Watervale, South Australia, and taught for a while at Moonta Mines State School. He then studied at St John's College, Cambridge, graduating in 1890 with a double first class in the law tripos. He was called to the bar of the Middle Temple in 1891 and elected Macmahon student at St John's College in 1892.

#3908

Ivo Lapenna

1909 - 1987 (78 years)

Ivo Lapenna was a Dalmatian Italian law professor. Lapenna was a noted Esperanto speaker and served as the President of the World Esperanto Association between 1964 and 1974. Lapenna was highly regarded as an orator in Esperanto, authored a number of books, and was the driving force behind the 1954 Montevideo Resolution in which UNESCO recognized Esperanto.

#3909

Emil Seckel

1864 - 1924 (60 years)

Emil Seckel was a German jurist and law historian. Emil Seckel studied law at the University of Tübingen. Seckel professor in 1898. In 1901 Seckel took over the professorship for Roman law at the University of Berlin. On December 7, 1911, he became a member of the Prussian Academy of Sciences. In 1920, Seckel was appointed rector of the Humboldt University in Berlin as the successor to the historian Eduard Meyer. The chemist Walther Nernst succeeded him in 1921.

#3910

Paul Bruton

1903 - 1988 (85 years)

Paul Wesley Bruton was the Ferdinand Wakeman Hubbell Professor of Law and the Algernon Sydney Biddle Professor of Law at the University of Pennsylvania Law School. Biography Bruton received his A.B. and his LL.B. in 1929 from the University of California, and his J.S.D. in 1930 from Yale University.

#3911

Samuel H. Fisher

1867 - 1957 (90 years)

Samuel Herbert Fisher was an American attorney and print historian. He was a member of the Acorn Club, to which he was elected in 1933. Fisher was a fellow of the Yale Corporation and chaired the Connecticut Tercentenary Commission. He received honorary degrees from Yale University, Colgate University, and Wesleyan University.

#3912

Gotthold Bohne

1890 - 1957 (67 years)

Gotthold Bohne was a German law professor. Life Gotthold Hermann Bohne was born in Burgstädt near Chemnitz. He studied at the universities of Greifswald, Jena und Leipzig a palette of subjects covering Theology, Philosophy, Medicine and Jurisprudence. His academic progress was interrupted by the First World War during which he undertook military service. After the war ended he received his doctorate in Jurisprudence from the University of Leipzig in 1920. His habilitation in criminal justice, from the same institution. followed just a year later, clearing the way for an academic care...

#3913

David Hughes Parry

1893 - 1973 (80 years)

Sir David Hughes Parry was a university administrator, Professor of Law and Vice-Chancellor of the University of London from 1945 to 1948. He was also founder of the university's Institute of Advanced Legal Studies in 1947.

#3914

Coleman Phillipson

1875 - 1958 (83 years)

Coleman Phillipson was an English legal scholar and historian. He was Professor of Law at Adelaide University 1919–1925. History Phillipson was born in Leeds, Yorkshire, England, the eldest son of Mr and Mrs S. Phillipson, both practising Jews. He was educated at the Central High School, Leeds, and Yorkshire College, University of Leeds, where he won prizes for French, English literature, theory of education, and debating. He secured a teaching position in a boarding school before embarking on Law studies at the Victoria University of Manchester followed by the University College of London, where he was Quain prizeman in Comparative Law 1906–1908.

#3915

Julius Stone

1907 - 1985 (78 years)

Julius Stone was Challis Professor of Jurisprudence and International Law at the University of Sydney from 1942 to 1972, and thereafter a visiting Professor of Law at the University of New South Wales and concurrently Distinguished Professor of Jurisprudence and International Law at the Hastings College of Law, University of California.

#3916

Maxime Leroy

1873 - 1957 (84 years)

Maxime Leroy was a French jurist and social historian. Career Maxime Leroy studied law at the university of Nancy, where he obtained his doctorate in 1898. A friend of Victor Griffuelhes and Alphonse Merrheim, he devoted his first works to the development of trade unionism and its legal and social impact. In 1909 he founded the "Société des amis du lac" at Soorts-Hossegor, where writers such as J.-H. Rosny jeune, Paul Margueritte and Gaston Chérau had been meeting for some years. A member of the Human Rights League of France and a supporter of the League of Nations, he participated in numerous international meetings and had a correspondence with Sigmund Freud and H.G.

#3917

Gertrud Schubart-Fikentscher

1896 - 1985 (89 years)

Gertrud Schubart-Fikentscher became Germany's first female professor of Law in September 1948, and remained the country's only female university law professor - after 1957 an emeritus law professor - for seventeen years. She taught at the University of Halle. By the time she received and accepted her professorship she was a few months short of her fifty-second birthday, reflecting a somewhat indirect career trajectory, her having grown up in a country where the educational system was not set up to enable women either to study or teach at any university.

#3918

Adrian S. Fisher

Adrian S. Fisher

1914 - 1983 (69 years)

Adrian Sanford Fisher was an American lawyer and federal public servant, who served from the late 1930s through the early 1980s. He was associated with the Department of War and Department of State throughout his professional career. He participated in the U.S. government's decision to carry out Japanese-American internment and the international Nuremberg trial, and in State Department Cold War activities during the Harry S. Truman administration. He was the State Department Legal Adviser under Secretary of State Dean Acheson. During the John F. Kennedy, Lyndon B. Johnson and Jimmy Carter...

#3919

Robert Redslob

1882 - 1962 (80 years)

Robert Redslob was a German-French constitutional and public international law-scientist who was critical of the French constitution in the early twentieth century. He was born in Straßburg in Elsass-Lothringen. From 1900 to 1906 he studied Law in Straßburg and in Berlin. In 1913 he accepted a position as professor at the University of Rostock, and after the First World War he returned to Strasbourg to the newly established University of Strasbourg.

#3920

Irving Younger

1932 - 1988 (56 years)

Irving Younger was an American lawyer, law professor, judge, and writer. He is well known among lawyers and law students for his energetic talks on effective trial advocacy and legal history. Biography Younger was born in New York City and attended high school at the Bronx High School of Science, followed by undergraduate studies at Harvard University, from which he graduated in 1953. After serving for two years in the United States Army, Younger obtained his Juris Doctor degree from New York University Law School in 1958. He was married to Judith T. Younger , who is also a lawyer and law p...

#3921

Nares Chandra Sen-Gupta

1882 - 1964 (82 years)

Naresh Chandra Sen-Gupta was an Indian legal scholar and a novelist of Bengali literature based in Calcutta. Early life and career Sen-Gupta was born into a Baidya Brahmin family on 17 May 1882 at his paternal uncle's home in Bogra . His parental home was in the village of Banshi in Tangail. His father, Maheshchandra Sengupta, was a deputy magistrate. He received his master's degree in philosophy from Calcutta University in 1903 and carried on research on 'Neo-German and Indian Philosophy' up to 1905 at Presidency College as a government scholar. He obtained a doctorate in Law from Calcutta U...

#3922

Margaret Brackenbury Crook

1886 - 1972 (86 years)

Margaret Brackenbury Crook was a British Unitarian minister, a women’s suffrage and peace activist, and a professor of religious studies in the United States. She was one of the first women ministers to be granted sole authority over a large English church. She is remembered mainly for the strongly feminist biblical exegesis in her 1964 book Women and Religion.

#3923

Ashbel Green Gulliver

1897 - 1974 (77 years)

Ashbel Green Gulliver was the dean of Yale Law School from 1940 to 1946. His nickname was "Pail"—from ashpail. Early life Gulliver went to Groton School for high school. He received a B.A. from Yale University in 1919, where he was secretary of the Elizabethan Club and a member of the Wolf's Head secret society.

#3924

Pasquale Joseph Federico

1902 - 1982 (80 years)

Pasquale Joseph Federico was a lifelong mathematician and longtime high-ranking official of the United States Patent Office. Biography He was born in Monessen, Pennsylvania. About 1910 the family moved to Cleveland, Ohio where he gained a bachelor's degree in physics at Case Institute of Technology in 1923. He then received his LL.B or law degree from Washington College of Law in 1932.

#3925

Walter Marshall William Splawn

1883 - 1963 (80 years)

Walter Marshall William Splawn was an American lawyer and economist. Splawn was an Arlington, Texas, native, born to William Butler and Mary Marshall Splawn on June 16, 1883. He graduated from Baylor University in 1906 with a bachelor's of arts degree. Splawn taught at his alma mater from 1910 to 1912, then began the practice of law in Fort Worth, Texas. He earned a master's of arts degree at Yale University in 1914, and returned to teach at Baylor in 1916. In 1919, Splawn joined the University of Texas at Austin faculty. While teaching economics in Austin, Splawn completed a doctorate at the University of Chicago in 1921.

#3926

Rudolf Stammler

Rudolf Stammler

1856 - 1938 (82 years)

Karl Eduard Julius Theodor Rudolf Stammler was an influential German philosopher of law. He distinguished a purely formal concept of law from the ideal, the realization of justice. He thought that, rather than reacting and adjusting the law to economic pressures, the law should be deliberately steered towards the current ideal.

#3927

Gerhart Husserl

1893 - 1973 (80 years)

Gerhart Adolf Husserl was a German legal scholar and philosopher. He was the eldest son of philosopher Edmund Husserl . Born in Halle, Saxony, in 1893. He was on active duty during the Great war, and suffered a serious wound in 1917 and again in 1918, losing the sight of his left eye. Gerhart Husserl nonetheless managed to finish his University studies and habilitated in 1924. In two years, on 18 November 1926 he became a Professor of Law at the University of Kiel. He was dismissed due to the Law for the Restoration of the Professional Civil Service in 1933, and eventually emigrated to the United States.

#3928

Robert von Hippel

1866 - 1951 (85 years)

Robert Wilhelm Ferdinand von Hippel was a German jurist and University lecturer born in Königsberg. Family Robert was the son of Arthur von Hippel and elder brother of Eugen von Hippel and Richard von Hippel . He married Emma Bremer in Strasbourg during 1894 and was the father of four children, including German-American physicist Arthur R. von Hippel. After the death of his first wife, he married Johanna von Koenen , the daughter of Adolf von Koenen, in Göttingen during 1927.

#3929

Enoch Crowder

1859 - 1932 (73 years)

Major General Enoch Herbert Crowder, USA was an American Army lawyer who served as the Judge Advocate General of the United States Army from 1911 to 1923. Crowder is most noted for implementing and administering the United States Selective Service Act of 1917, under which thousands of American men were drafted into military service during World War I.

#3930

Max Grünhut

1893 - 1964 (71 years)

Max Grünhut was a German-British legal scholar and criminologist. Of Jewish descent, he emigrated to the United Kingdom to escape Nazism in 1939. Prior to that, he was held a professorship at the University of Bonn.

#3931

Eleanor Bontecou

1891 - 1976 (85 years)

Eleanor Bontecou was an American lawyer, civil rights advocate, law professor and government official. Bontecou served as an attorney and investigator for both the U.S. Department of Justice and U.S. War Department. She also worked as a professor at two universities. During her career, Bontecou achieved national fame for her work in the civil liberties and women's rights movements.

#3932

Alexander Haim Pekelis

1902 - 1946 (44 years)

Alexander Haim Pekelis was a jurist, scholar and activist. He lived and was educated throughout Europe in his early life and was a jurist in pre-fascist Italy before moving to France in 1938 and to the United States in 1941. He became the first foreign-born Editor-in-Chief of the Columbia Law Review. Despite his short time in the United States before his untimely death in 1946 at the age of 44, he left his mark on modern United States jurisprudence, his work advocating and foretelling the role social sciences would come to play in deciding legal issues.

#3933

Jules Basdevant

Jules Basdevant

1877 - 1968 (91 years)

Jules Basdevant was a French law professor. He was born in Anost, Saône-et-Loire, a village in the Parc naturel régional du Morvan about halfway between Paris and Lyon in eastern France. After obtaining his Ph.D. in law, he began teaching at the law faculty in Paris, in February 1903, as an agrégé. He was later transferred to the law faculty of Rennes where he lectured from 1903 to 1907. He then went to Grenoble, where he was a professor until 1918, when he went back to Paris. Basdevant was promoted several times; in 1922 as professor of international law and historical treaties, in 1924 as p...

#3934

Gerhard Anschütz

1867 - 1948 (81 years)

Gerhard Anschütz was a noted German teacher of constitutional law and the leading commentator of the Weimar Constitution. His principal work is the two-volume legal encyclopedia Handbuch des deutschen Staatsrechts; his constitutional commentary saw 14 editions during the Weimar Republic. Anschütz, a proponent of legal positivism, taught constitutional law in Tübingen , Heidelberg , Berlin and again Heidelberg . A Democrat by conviction even during World War I, he resigned his teaching position in 1933 after the Nazis seized power. After World War II, he served as a consultant to the US mil...

#3935

Adam Vetulani

1901 - 1976 (75 years)

Adam Joachim Vetulani was a Polish historian of medieval and canon law, professor of the Jagiellonian University and a General Secretary of the Polish Academy of Learning . Biography He was the son of Polish high school professor, Roman Vetulani, and Elżbieta Kunachowicz, brother of Kazimierz, Tadeusz, Zygmunt, Maria, and Elżbieta. He attended high schools in Sanok and Cieszyn, in 1917 he passed examination of maturity in Vienna.

#3936

Giambattista Vico

Giambattista Vico

1668 - 1744 (76 years)

Giambattista Vico was an Italian philosopher, rhetorician, historian, and jurist during the Italian Enlightenment. He criticized the expansion and development of modern rationalism, finding Cartesian analysis and other types of reductionism impractical to human life, and he was an apologist for classical antiquity and the Renaissance humanities, in addition to being the first expositor of the fundamentals of social science and of semiotics. He is recognised as one of the first Counter-Enlightenment figures in history.

#3937

Axel Hägerström

Axel Hägerström

1868 - 1939 (71 years)

Axel Anders Theodor Hägerström was a Swedish philosopher. Born in Vireda, Jönköping County, Sweden, he was the son of a Church of Sweden pastor. As student at Uppsala University, he gave up theology for a career in philosophy. Teaching there from 1893 until his retirement in 1933, he attacked the then dominant philosophical idealism of the followers of Christopher Jacob Boström . He is best known as a founder of the positivistic Uppsala school of philosophy—the Swedish counterpart of the Anglo-American Analytical Philosophy as well as of the Logical Positivism of the Vienna Circle—and as the...

#3938

Maurice Hauriou

Maurice Hauriou

1856 - 1929 (73 years)

Maurice Hauriou was a French jurist and sociologist whose writings shaped French administrative law in the late 19th and early 20th century. Hauriou taught public law at the University of Toulouse since 1888, and constitutional law since 1920. His work gave French administrative law a new dogmatic basis, including through his textbooks Précis de droit administratif et de droit public général , Précis élémentaire de droit administratif , Précis de droit constitutionnel and Principes de droit public .

#3939

Marcel Planiol

1853 - 1931 (78 years)

Marcel Planiol was a French professor of law at the University of Rennes, then at the Sorbonne. He wrote on the law and on historical Brittany. He is known for his Elementary Treatise of Civil Law , which attempted to explain French civil law in terms of elementary principles, particularly the maxims of Roman law.

#3940

Alberico Gentili

Alberico Gentili

1552 - 1608 (56 years)

Alberico Gentili was an Italian-English jurist, a tutor of Queen Elizabeth I, and a standing advocate to the Spanish Embassy in London, who served as the Regius professor of civil law at the University of Oxford for 21 years. He is heralded as the founder of the science of international law alongside Francisco de Vitoria and Hugo Grotius, and thus known as the "Father of international law". Gentili has been the earliest writer on public international law. In 1587, he became the first non-English person to be a Regius Professor.

#3941

James Barr Ames

James Barr Ames

1846 - 1910 (64 years)

James Barr Ames was an American law educator, who popularized the "case-study" method of teaching law. Biography Ames was born in Boston, Massachusetts on June 22, 1846; son of Samuel T. and Mary H. Ames and grandson of James Barr, M.D. He received his primary education in Boston, then graduated from Harvard College in 1868 , and graduated from Harvard Law School in 1872 . He began working as a tutor and instructor at Harvard in 1871, and continued until 1873, when he was admitted to the bar. Although a licensed lawyer, Ames did not open a private practice, spending his full-time at Harvard ...

#3942

Ivor Jennings

1903 - 1965 (62 years)

Sir William Ivor Jennings was a British lawyer and academic. He served as the vice chancellor of the University of Cambridge and the University of Ceylon . Education Jennings was educated at Queen Elizabeth's Hospital, Bristol , at Bristol Grammar School, and at St Catharine's College, Cambridge.

#3943

Gratian

1070 - 1140 (70 years)

#3944

Bruno Leoni

1913 - 1967 (54 years)

Bruno Leoni was an Italian classical-liberal political philosopher and lawyer. Whilst the war kept Leoni away from teaching, in 1945 he became Full professor of Philosophy of Law. Leoni was also appointed Dean of the Department of Political Sciences at the University of Pavia from 1948 to 1960.

#3945

Edward Carson

1854 - 1935 (81 years)

Edward Henry Carson, Baron Carson, PC, PC , from 1900 to 1921 known as Sir Edward Carson, was an Irish unionist politician, barrister and judge, who served as the Attorney General and Solicitor General for England, Wales and Ireland as well as the First Lord of the Admiralty for the British Royal Navy. From 1905 Carson was both the Irish Unionist Alliance MP for the Dublin University constituency and leader of the Ulster Unionist Council in Belfast. In 1915, he entered the war cabinet of H. H. Asquith as Attorney-General. Carson was defeated in his ambition to maintain Ireland as a whole in union with Great Britain.

#3946

Aleksandr Gradovsky

Aleksandr Gradovsky

1841 - 1889 (48 years)

Aleksandr Gradovsky was a Russian jurist. A professor of law at St. Petersburg University since 1869, he was a leading theorist of Russian administrative and constitutional law. He was succeeded by Nikolay Korkunov.

#3947

Ernst Freund

1864 - 1932 (68 years)

Ernst Freund was a noted American legal scholar. He received a Dr. Jur. from the University of Heidelberg and a Ph.D. in political science from Columbia University . He was professor of political science at the University of Chicago and then professor of law at Chicago , serving as the John P. Wilson Professor of Law . Freund was principally responsible for the development of administrative law in the United States during the early twentieth century. He was one of the organizers of the Immigrants' Protective League . The University of Chicago Law School has established the Ernst Freund Di...

#3948

Pliny the Younger

Pliny the Younger

61 - 113 (52 years)

Gaius Plinius Caecilius Secundus, born Gaius Caecilius or Gaius Caecilius Cilo , better known as Pliny the Younger , was a lawyer, author, and magistrate of Ancient Rome. Pliny's uncle, Pliny the Elder, helped raise and educate him.

#3949

Dionisio Anzilotti

1867 - 1950 (83 years)

Dionisio Anzilotti was an Italian jurist and judge of the Permanent Court of International Justice. After law studies in Pisa, Anzilotti taught international law in Florence, Palermo, Bologna and Rome from 1892 to 1937. One of the main proponents of Heinrich Triepel's theory of dualism, his textbook of international law, Corso di diritto internazionale. Vol. I: Introduzione e teorie generali was translated into several languages.

#3950

Francis Scott Key

Francis Scott Key

1779 - 1843 (64 years)

Francis Scott Key was an American lawyer, author, and amateur poet from Frederick, Maryland, best known as the author of the text of the U.S. national anthem, "The Star-Spangled Banner". Key observed the British bombardment of Fort McHenry in 1814 during the War of 1812. He was inspired upon seeing the American flag still flying over the fort at dawn and wrote the poem "Defence of Fort M'Henry"; it was published within a week with the suggested tune of the popular song "To Anacreon in Heaven". The song with Key's lyrics became known as "The Star-Spangled Banner" and slowly gained in popularit...

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