Wolfgang Friedmann Explained

Wolfgang G. Friedmann
Birth Date:	25 January 1907
Birth Place:	Berlin, German Empire
Death Place:	New York City, US
Resting Place:	June Cemetery, North Salem, Westchester County, New York, US
Spouse:	Leah May Friedmann
Occupation:	Legal scholar

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.^{[1] [2]}

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.^[3] 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.^[4] The Wolfgang Friedmann Memorial Award was established in his honor.^{[5] [6]}

Selected bibliography

• Book: The Crisis of the National State . London . Macmillan & Co., Limited . 1943 . Internet Archive.
• Book: Law and Social Change in Contemporary Britain . London . Stevens & Sons . 1951 . registration. Internet Archive.
• Book: Law in a Changing Society . London . Stevens & Sons . 1959 . Internet Archive. ; 2nd ed. - 1971.
• Book: The Changing Structure of International Law . New York . Columbia University Press . 1967 . registration . Internet Archive.
• Book: Introduction to World Politics . London and New York . Macmillan and St. Martin Press . 5th . 1965 . Internet Archive.
• Book: Legal Theory . New York . Columbia University Press . 5th . 1967 . registration . Internet Archive.
• Book: The State and the Rule of Law in a Mixed Economy . London . Stevens & Sons . 1971 . Internet Archive.
• Book: The Future of the Oceans . New York . George Braziller . 1971 . registration . Internet Archive.

Further reading

• Book: Bell, John . Wolfgang Friedmann (1907–1972), with an Excursus on Gustav Radbruch (1878–1949) . 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199270583.001.0001 . Jack . Jack Beatson . Beatson . Reinhard . Reinhard Zimmermann . https://doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199270583.003.0016 . Zimmermann . Jurists Uprooted: German-speaking Émigré Lawyers in Twentieth-century Britain . New York . Oxford University Press . 2004 . 517–534 . 0-19-927058-9.
• Web site: Friedmann, Wolfgang Gaston . Deutsche Biographie. German . 31 December 2023.

Notes and References

1. Hazard . John N. . John N. Hazard . Louis . Henkin . Louis Henkin . Oliver J. . Lissitzyn . In Memoriam: Wolfgang Gaston Friedmann 1907–1972 . The American Journal of International Law . 67 . 1 . 1973 . 102–103 . 0002-9300 .
2. Panhuys . H. F. van . In Memoriam: Wolfgang Gaston Friedmann (1907–1972) . Netherlands International Law Review . 20 . 1 . 1973 . 1–4 . 10.1017/S0165070X00020830 . free .
3. Web site: History. Columbia Journal of Transnational Law.
4. News: Professor Slain in Mugging Here . New York Times . September 21, 1972 .
5. Web site: Wolfgang Friedmann Memorial Award. Columbia Journal of Transnational Law.
6. News: Biaggi Scores Lack of Foot Patrolmen. Ronald. Smothers. The New York Times . September 23, 1972. NYTimes.com.