L. F. L. Oppenheim

Lassa Francis Lawrence Oppenheim ( born March 30, 1858 in Windecken; † October 7, 1919 in Cambridge ) was a German lawyer, who is regarded as the founders of modern international law.

Life

Lassa Oppenheim studied law at the Universities of Berlin, Göttingen, Heidelberg and Leipzig. In 1881 he received his doctorate in Göttingen, and habilitated in 1885 at the University of Freiburg. In the following years, Oppenheim, who was a student of the criminal justice coupler Karl Binding, worked as a lecturer and from 1889 as a non -budgetary associate professor in the field of criminal law. In 1892 he took over a full professorship at the University of Basel. In 1895 he went to England and lived there until his death.

Oppenheim taught at the London School of Economics. In 1908 he was Whewell Professor of International Law at the University of Cambridge. His main work is the internationally renowned International Law: A Treatise, published in 1905 and still is today known as a standard textbook of international law.

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