Rudolf Schlesinger
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Rudolf Schlesinger was the son of a lawyer and a relative of bankers. He was born in Munich, Bavaria, Germany 1909. As he was growing up, he exhibited especial intellectual abilities, but also a great interest for sports and art. He completed his doctoral thesis on commercial law with great success and next he worked as a lawyer for the bank that years ago had been founded by his predecessors.
On December 1939, he left for the United States (to flee persecution by the Nazi regime, him being of the Jewish faith). Soon, he enrolled in the Law School of Columbia University, where he became the first, and perhaps the only, non native English speaking editor of the Columbia Law Review. He graduated first in class, and started working as an assistant of one of the judges members of the Supreme Court of the State of New York. He worked for some time in a large New York City law firm; however, in 1948 he moved into academia and started teaching in the Law School of Cornell University, where he later became a Professor of Comparative Law. It 1975 he left, as Professor Emeritus, and became a professor in the Law School of Hastings University in California, until his retirement in 1995, one year before his death in 1996.
The breadth and quality of his work are the reason for which it is claimed by some that he is the founder of comparative law in the United States. In 1950 already, he published an introductory book on Comparative Law ('Comparative Law: Cases, Text, Materials'), which still remains the textbook on this area with the highest sales in the law schools across the United States of America.
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Moustaira Elina N., Milestones in the Course of Comparative Law: Thesis and Antithesis (in Greek), Ant. N. Sakkoulas Publishers, Athens, 2003, ISBN 960-15-1097-4
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