Ernst Rabel, born 28 January 1874 in Vienna, Austria-Hungary, and who died 7 September 1955 in Zurich, Switzerland, was an Austrian-born jurist, later an American citizen, who earned his doctorate at the University of Vienna in 1895 under Ludwig Mitteis. He held professorships at Leipzig from 1902, Basel from 1906, Kiel from 1910, Gottingen from 1911 and Munich from 1916, co-founded Munich's Institute for Comparative Law, and directed the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Foreign and International Private Law in Berlin from 1926 until Nazi persecution forced his resignation in 1937, after which he emigrated to the United States in 1939 with research support from the American Law Institute, the University of Michigan Law School and Harvard Law School. He pioneered the functional method of comparative law that became an international standard, his 1930s work on international sales law directly influenced the 1964 Hague Convention on Uniform Sales Law, he completed his four-volume magnum opus The Conflict of Laws, A Comparative Study between 1945 and 1954, and he took part in drafting principles that informed the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
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Role-born scholar of Roman law, German private law, and comparative law 1 Nationality / Jurisdiction Place of Death Classification
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Did Ernst Rabel ever serve as a judge?
He sat as a national judge in the Chorzów factory case before the Permanent Court of International Justice.
Yes. In the Permanent Court of International Justice's 1928 judgment in the Chorzów factory case between Germany and Poland, Ernst Rabel is named among the national judges.
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In the field of comparative law his methodological perspectives, particularly as articulated and disseminated by his students, including Ernst von Caemmerer, Gerhard Kegel, and Max Rheinstein, were influential in the development of the "functional" or "function/context" methodology that became standard in Europe, the United States, and elsewhere in the world, in the post-World War II era.
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Ernst Rabel, born 28 January 1874 in Vienna, Austria-Hungary, and who died 7 September 1955 in Zurich, Switzerland, was an Austrian-born jurist, later an American citizen, who earned his doctorate at the University of Vienna in 1895 under Ludwig Mitteis.
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Ernst Rabel (January 28, 1874 - September 7, 1955) was an Austrian-born scholar of Roman law, German private law, and comparative law, who, as the founding director of the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Foreign and International Private Law, in Berlin, achieved international recognition in the period between the World Wars, before being forced into retirement under the Nazi regime, and immigrating to the United States, in 1939.
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he was an ad hoc judge on the Permanent Court of International Justice
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Wikidata Q216637, P569 date of birth claim (year)
P569 (date of birth): 1874
Wikidata Q216637, P569 date of birth claim (full date)
P569 (date of birth): 1874-01-28
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P570 (date of death): 1955
Wikidata Q216637, P570 date of death claim (full date)
P570 (date of death): 1955-09-07
Wikidata Q216637, P19 place of birth claim
P19 (place of birth): Vienna
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P20 (place of death): Zurich
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