Wolfgang Gaston Friedmann was a German American legal scholar who lived from 25 January 1907 to 20 September 1972 and specialized in international law. Born in Berlin, he later held academic posts at the University of Melbourne from 1947 to 1950 and the University of Toronto Law School from 1950 to 1955 before joining the faculty of Columbia Law School in 1955, where he founded the Columbia Journal of Transnational Law. His major works include The Changing Structure of International Law, published in 1967, and The Future of the Oceans, published in 1971. Following his death in 1972 the Wolfgang Friedmann Memorial Award was established in his honor.
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How did Wolfgang Friedmann, born in Berlin, come to teach at Columbia Law School?
He left Germany for London in 1934 as a Jewish law graduate and reached Columbia in 1955 by way of Melbourne and Toronto.
Friedmann finished his law studies 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. In London 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. After the war he was a professor at the University of Melbourne from 1947 to 1950 and at the University of Toronto Law School from 1950 to 1955, and in 1955 he became a professor of international law at Columbia Law School.
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Specializing in international law, he was a faculty member at Columbia Law School.
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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.
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Wolfgang Gaston Friedmann (25 January 1907 - 20 September 1972) was a German American legal scholar.
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Specializing in international law, he was a faculty member at Columbia Law School.
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Wolfgang Gaston Friedmann (25 January 1907-20 September 1972) was a German American legal scholar.
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P569 (date of birth): 1907
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P569 (date of birth): 1907-01-25
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P570 (date of death): 1972
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P570 (date of death): 1972-09-20
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P19 (place of birth): Berlin
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P20 (place of death): New York City
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P1477 (birth name): Wolfgang Gaston Friedmann
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