Nékám, Alexander

LC control no.	no 95011733
Descriptive conventions	rda
Personal name heading	Nékám, Alexander *Browse this term in* LC Authorities or the LC Catalog
Variant(s)	Nékám, Sandor
Associated country	Hungary United States
Associated place	France Great Britain England Uganda
Located	Wilmette (Ill.)
Birth date	1905-10-10
Death date	1982-06-01
Place of birth	Budapest (Hungary)
Place of death	Houston (Tex.)
Field of activity	Juristic persons Customary law--Africa Law--Uganda Comparative law
Affiliation	Northwestern University (Evanston, Ill.). School of Law Northwestern University (Evanston, Ill.). Program of African Studies Harvard Law School Yale Law School Boston College. Law School London School of Economics and Political Science Hungary. Igazságügyminisztérium Hungary. Külügyminisztérium Magyar Külügyi Intézet
Profession or occupation	Law teachers Lawyers
Found in	Experiences in African customary law, 1966: t.p. (professor Alexander Nékám) Expanding horizons in African studies, 1969: page 363 (Alexander Nekam; professor of law, Northwestern University Law School; member of the faculty of the Program of African Studies) Fold3 by Ancestry (website), viewed Feb. 6, 2017 (Alexander Nekam; birth: 10 Oct 1905; death: June 1982; last residence: Austin, TX) Wilmette Public Library Newspapers website, Wilmette Life, 10 June 1982, page 105, Obituary: Alexander Nekam, viewed Feb. 6, 2017 (Alexander Nekam, 76, longtime Wilmette resident, died in Houston June 1) Northwestern University Libraries, Nekam, Alexander (1905-1982) papers, viewed Feb. 6, 2017 (Alexander Nekam, born in Budapest, Hungary, October 10, 1905; he received a Doctor of Laws degree sub auspiciis gubernatoris from University of Budapest in 1928; he also studies in Paris and at the London School of Economics, then came to the United States 1929-1931 to study at Harvard Law School, S.J.D. 1931, thesis published in 1938 under the title The Personality Conception of the Legal Entity; worked at law courts in Budapest 1931-1934; after bar exam he became, in 1934, member of the Department of International Law, Hungarian Ministry of Justice, remained there until 1939; worked in Prime Minister's Office 1939-1941, and Hungarian Ministry of Foreign Affairs 1941-1947; taught International Law at the Institute for Foreign Affairs, Budapest, 1942-1945; came to the United States permanently in August 1949; Lecturer in Law for 1 year at Harvard University Law School; studied at Yale University 1950-1952, L.L.B. 1952, elected to the Order of the Coif; Associate Professor at Boston College Law School 1952-1956, becoming an American citizen in 1955; Senior Fellow and Visiting Lecture, Yale Law School, 1956-1957, taught conflicts and seminar in comparative law; Professor of Law at Northwestern from 1957 until his retirement in 1974; died in 1982; his main research interests were the emergence and development of conflicts-of-law approach, conflicts sensitivities in African customary law, and the emotional basis of legal values; the bulk of the papers are interview transcripts from Nekam's research trips to Uganda in 1964 and 1966)
Associated language	eng hun