Brigitte Bodenheimer Explained

Brigitte M. Bodenheimer
Birth Date:September 27, 1912
Birth Name:Brigitte Marianne Levy
Birth Place:Berlin, Prussia
Death Place:Davis, California, US
Nationality:German American
Fields:Legal studies
Alma Mater:Washington School of Law
University of Heidelberg

Brigitte Marianne Levy Bodenheimer (September 27, 1912 – January 7, 1981) was a German American jurist. Specializing in family law, she was a professor at S.J. Quinney College of Law and UC Davis School of Law.[1] [2]

Born in Berlin to Ernst Levy and Zerline Wolff, Bodenheimer graduated from the University of Heidelberg in 1934. Being Jewish, she immigrated from Nazi Germany that same year and continued her legal education at Columbia Law School (where she met her husband Edgar Bodenheimer) and later University of Washington School of Law.[3]

Notes and References

  1. Book: Krause, Harry D. . American Family Law and Brigitte Marianne Bodenheimer . Der Einfluss deutscher Emigranten auf die Rechtsentwicklung in den USA und in Deutschland . Marcus . Lutter . Ernst C. . Stiefel . Michael H. . Hoeflich . Mohr Siebeck . 1993 . 3161460804 . 309–320 .
  2. http://www.law.ucdavis.edu/academics-clinicals/lectures.html Brigitte M. Bodenheimer Lecture on Family Law
  3. Book: Stiefel, Ernst C. . Frank . Mecklenburg . Deutsche Juristen im amerikanischen Exil (1933–1950) . Tübingen . Mohr Siebeck . 1991 . 3161456882 . 56–57 . de.