Wolfgang Friedmann

{{Short description|(1907 – 1972) German American legal scholar}}

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| birth_place = Berlin, German Empire

| death_date = {{Death date and age|1972|9|20|1907|1|25|mf=y}}

| death_place = New York City, US

|resting_place= June Cemetery, North Salem, Westchester County, New York, US

|spouse = Leah May Friedmann

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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.{{cite journal |last1=Hazard |first1=John N. |author-link= John N. Hazard |first2=Louis |last2=Henkin |author2-link= Louis Henkin |first3=Oliver J. |last3=Lissitzyn |title=In Memoriam: Wolfgang Gaston Friedmann 1907–1972 |journal=The American Journal of International Law |volume=67 |issue=1 |year=1973 |pages=102–103 |issn=0002-9300 }}{{cite journal |last=Panhuys |first=H. F. van |title=In Memoriam: Wolfgang Gaston Friedmann (1907–1972) |journal=Netherlands International Law Review |volume=20 |issue=1 |year=1973 |pages=1–4 |doi=10.1017/S0165070X00020830 |doi-access=free }}

Biography

Born in Berlin, Friedmann finished his studies of law at the Humboldt University of Berlin in 1930. Being Jewish, he immigrated to London in 1934, shortly after the Nazis' seizure of power in Germany. He obtained a University of London LLM, taught at University College London, became a British citizen in 1939 and served in the British Army during the Second World War.

He went as Professor to the University of Melbourne (1947-50) and then to the University of Toronto Law School (1950-55).

In 1955, he became a professor of international law at Columbia Law School, where he founded the Columbia Journal of Transnational Law.{{Cite web|title=History|url=https://www.jtl.columbia.edu/history|website=Columbia Journal of Transnational Law}} In 1972, he was robbed and stabbed to death in front of Public School 36 at Amsterdam Avenue between 122d and 123d Streets near Columbia's campus in Manhattan.{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1972/09/21/archives/professor-slain-in-mugging-here-witnesses-see-three-youths-stab-dr.html |title=Professor Slain in Mugging Here |newspaper=New York Times |date=September 21, 1972 }} The Wolfgang Friedmann Memorial Award was established in his honor.{{Cite web|title=Wolfgang Friedmann Memorial Award|url=https://www.jtl.columbia.edu/new-page-4|website=Columbia Journal of Transnational Law}}{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1972/09/23/archives/biaggi-scores-lack-of-foot-patrolmen.html|title=Biaggi Scores Lack of Foot Patrolmen|first=Ronald|last=Smothers|work=The New York Times |date=September 23, 1972|via=NYTimes.com}}

Selected bibliography

{{cite book |title=The Crisis of the National State |place= London |publisher= Macmillan & Co., Limited |url= https://archive.org/details/bwb_W8-AHS-743/page/n7/mode/2up?view=theater |year= 1943 |via= Internet Archive}}

{{cite book |title=Law and Social Change in Contemporary Britain |place= London |publisher= Stevens & Sons |url= https://archive.org/details/lawsocialchangei0000wfri/page/n7/mode/2up?view=theater |year= 1951 |url-access= registration|via= Internet Archive}}

{{cite book |title=Law in a Changing Society |place= London |publisher= Stevens & Sons |url= |year= 1959 |via= Internet Archive}}; 2nd ed. - 1971.

{{cite book |title=The Changing Structure of International Law |place= New York |publisher= Columbia University Press |url=https://archive.org/details/changingstructur0000wolf/page/n5/mode/2up?view=theater |edition = |year= 1967 |url-access= registration |via= Internet Archive}}

{{cite book |title=Introduction to World Politics |place= London and New York |publisher= Macmillan and St. Martin Press |url= |edition = 5th |year= 1965 |url-access= |via= Internet Archive}}

{{cite book |title=Legal Theory |place= New York |publisher= Columbia University Press |url= https://archive.org/details/legaltheory0000frie/page/n5/mode/2up?view=theater |edition = 5th |year= 1967 |url-access= registration |via= Internet Archive}}

{{cite book |title= The State and the Rule of Law in a Mixed Economy |place= London |publisher= Stevens & Sons |url= |year= 1971 |url-access= |via= Internet Archive}}

{{cite book |title= The Future of the Oceans |place= New York |publisher= George Braziller |url= https://archive.org/details/futureofoceans00frie/page/n5/mode/2up?view=theater |edition = |year= 1971 |url-access= registration |via= Internet Archive}}

Wolfgang Friedmann

Biography

Selected bibliography

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Further reading