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Rudolf Schlesinger was born on 1909 in Munich, Bavaria, Germany, is a Rudolf Berthold Schlesinger was legal scholar. Discover Rudolf Schlesinger's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 87 years old?

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Occupation Legal scholar
Age 87 years old
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Born 1909, 1909
Birthday 1909
Birthplace Munich, Bavaria, Germany
Date of death 10 November, 1996
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Nationality Germany

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1909

He was born in Munich, Bavaria, Germany, in 1909.

His father was American, which is why Schlesinger acquired dual citizenship per jus sanguinis.

As he was growing up, he exhibited especial intellectual abilities, but also a great interest for sports and art.

1933

He completed his doctoral thesis on commercial law, earning his degree in law from the University of Munich in 1933.

He then worked as a lawyer for the bank that years before had been founded by his predecessors.

He developed a background in finance while also helping German Jews transfer their assets out of the country in order to escape Nazi persecution.

1938

In 1938, with the Nazi party gaining strength, Schlesinger, who was Jewish, emigrated to the United States.

Soon, he enrolled in the Columbia Law School, where he became the first, and perhaps the only, non native English speaking editor of the Columbia Law Review.

1942

He graduated first in his class in 1942 and started working as an assistant to a New York Supreme Court judge.

1948

He briefly worked at Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy, a renowned New York law firm; however, in 1948 he moved into academia and started teaching in the Cornell Law School, where he later became a professor of comparative law.

He also wrote important studies of civil procedure and international business transactions and directed a ten-year international research project on contracts.

1950

Foremost was his pioneering 1950 book on comparative law, Comparative Law: Cases, Text, Materials, which ultimately influenced two generations of readers.

His arrival in the field during the early 1950s helped to give it both greater legitimacy and popularity in legal academia.

His book Comparative Law: Cases, Texts, Materials (1950), written while Schlesinger taught at Cornell University, became a staple of law school curricula and entered its fifth edition in the late 1990s.

1955

In 1955, working on behalf of the New York Law Revision Commission, he examined the important question of whether to codify commercial law.

His study, "Problems of Codification of Commercial Law" (1955), paralleled the development of the Uniform Commercial Code.

1960

In the 1960s Schlesinger launched the Cornell project on "Formation of Contract. A Study on the common core of legal systems" which deployed the entirely original methodology of the "factual approach" in comparative legal scholarship.

1968

The result of the Cornell seminars is a two-volume book published by Oceana in 1968 under Schlesinger's editorship.

1975

In 1975 he left, as Professor Emeritus, and became a professor in the University of California's Hastings College of the Law, until his retirement in 1995.

1993

In 1993 Schlesinger's successor at Hastings Ugo Mattei together with Italian comparativist Mauro Bussani launched the "Common Core of European Private Law Project" deploying the Cornell factual approach to study European contract, property and tort law.

The results of the common core project that "on the shoulders of Schlesinger" involves some two hundred scholars from all over the world are published in an ongoing series at Cambridge University Press.

1995

In 1995 the American Journal of Comparative Law published a tribute to Schlesinger that praised the brilliance of his "heroic work" and noted that its influence went beyond U.S. law: "Today's serious efforts to find and develop a unitary European private law is, consciously or unconsciously, a continuation of Schlesinger's effort."

1996

Rudolf Berthold Schlesinger (1909 – November 10, 1996) was a German American legal scholar known for his contributions to the study of comparative law, a discipline that examines the differences and similarities among the legal systems of nations.

Schlesinger was the son of a lawyer and a relative of bankers.

Schlesinger and his wife, Ruth Hirschland Schlesinger, both died on November 10, 1996, in San Francisco, California, an apparent double suicide.

Schlesinger had an enormous impact on U.S. and European legal studies.