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Sohn, Louis B

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Personal name headingSohn, Louis B.
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Variant(s)Sohn, Ludwik Bruno
Associated countryUnited States
Birth date1914-03-01
Death date2006-06-07
Place of birthLʹviv (Ukraine)
Place of deathFalls Church (Va.)
Field of activityInternational law
AffiliationHarvard Law School
University of Georgia. School of Law
United Nations
Profession or occupationLaw teachers College teachers
College and university faculty members
Scholar Law professor
Found inFifty years of arbitration in the Union of international transport ... 1942
Use of force [VR] 1995: series guide (Professor Louis B. Sohn, George Washington University Law Center)
Research in international law: changes of nationality caused by transfer of territories: draft of a Convention with explanatory comments, 1940: title leaf (Ludwik Bruno Sohn)
Washington post WWW site, June 14, 2006 (Louis B. Sohn; born in what is now the Ukrainian city of Lviv; died June 7, Falls Church, aged 92; considered one of the world's greatest scholars of international law; helped draft the United Nations charter, define international human rights, and design disarmament agreements)
New York times, September 4, 2013 obituary dated June 23, 2006 (Louis B. Sohn, a professor of international law who helped draft parts of the United Nations Charter in 1945 and was a leader in subsequent efforts to turn the United Nations into a true world government, died on June 7 at his home in Falls Church, Va. He was 92. For nearly 50 years, while at the Harvard School of Law and then the University of Georgia School of Law, Professor Sohn served on commissions and organized conferences around the world, championing disarmament, human rights and increased powers for the United Nations)
Wikipedia, September 4, 2013 (Louis B. Sohn; born 1 March 1914 in Lemberg Austria-Hungary now Ukraine; died 7 June 2006. He earned his first law degree at John Casimir University in Lwow, Poland in 1939; He was a longtime scholar of international law and advocate of international institutions. As a protégé of Manley O. Hudson, he participated in the San Francisco Conference that established the United Nations, working on the statute of the International Court of Justice. Sohn earned his LL.M. and S.J.D. degrees from Harvard Law School. He was appointed an assistant professor there in 1951 and became the Bemis Chair in 1961; upon mandatory retirement from Harvard, Sohn followed his friend Dean Rusk to the University of Georgia School of Law, where he held the Woodruff Chair in International Law until 1991. Sohn served as counselor to the Legal Adviser, U.S. Department of State in 1970 and 1971. He was the U.S. delegate to the Law of the Sea Convention from 1974 to 1982, etc.)
Associated languageeng