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| birth_name = Ludwig Bruno Sohn
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| birth_place = [[Lviv|Lemberg]], [[Austria-Hungary]]
| death_date = {{Death date and age|2006|6|7|1914|3|1|df=y}}
| death_place = [[Falls Church, Virginia]], U.S.
| nationality = Austrian<br/>American
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| alma_mater = [[John Casimir University]]<br>[[Harvard Law School]]
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'''Louis Bruno Sohn''' (1 March 1914 – 7 June 2006) was an Austrian–American [[legal scholar]].
'''Louis B. Sohn''' (1 March 1914 – 7 June 2006) was born in [[Lviv|Lemberg]], in what was then Austria-Hungary, later Poland and now Ukraine. He earned his first law degree at [[John Casimir University]] in Lwow in 1939, leaving for the United States to take up a Harvard University research fellowship two weeks before Nazi Germany invaded Poland. He was a longtime scholar of [[international law]] and advocate of international institutions.
 
==Biography==
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, succeeding Hudson to 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 was born in [[Lviv|Lemberg]], in what was then [[Austria-Hungary]], later Poland and now Ukraine. He earned his first law degree at [[John Casimir University]] in Lwow in 1939, leaving for the United States to take up a Harvard University research fellowship two weeks before [[Invasion of Poland|Nazi Germany invaded Poland]]. He was a longtime scholar of [[international law]] and advocate of international institutions.<ref>{{cite news|last1=Sullivan|first1=Patricia |title=International Law Expert Louis Sohn |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/06/13/AR2006061301542.html |newspaper=The Washington Post|access-date=May 25, 2016|date=June 14, 2006}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal|last1= Buergenthal|first1=Thomas |title=Louis B. Sohn (1914-2006) |jstor=4091372|journal=The American Journal of International Law |year=2006 |volume= 100 |issue= 3, July 2006 |pages = 623–628|doi=10.1017/S0002930000031079 |s2cid=155151913 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web|last1=Hevesi|first1= Dennis |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2006/06/23/us/23sohn.html |work=New York Times |title=Louis B. Sohn, Passionate Supporter of the U.N., Dies at 92 |date=June 23, 2006|access-date=May 25, 2016}}</ref>
 
▲As a protégé of [[Manley Ottmer Hudson|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 [[Doctor of Juridical Science|S.J.D.]] degrees from [[Harvard Law School]]. He was appointed an assistant professor there in 1951, succeeding Hudson to the [[Bemis Professor of International Law|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.
 
In 1958, Professor Sohn was a co-author, with [[Grenville Clark]], of ''[[World Peace Through World Law]]'' (Harvard University Press), which examined proposals to transform the United Nations into a world government.<ref>{{cite book |last1= Clark |first1= Grenville |last2= Sohn |first2=Louis B. |author2-link= Louis Sohn |title=World Peace Through World Law |publisher= Harvard University Press |place= Cambridge, Massachusetts |year= 1962 |edition=2nd (Revised) |url=https://archive.org/details/worldpeacethroug00clar |url-access=registration |via= Internet Archive}}</ref> The book called for complete disarmament and the use of world judicial tribunals to solve international disputes. The plan also proposed a permanent world police force to enforce a prohibition on the [[Use of force in international law|use of force by states]].
 
He was nominated for the [[Nobel Peace Prize]] by numerous people from 1959 to 1964.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.nobelprize.org/nomination/archive/show_people.php?id=11506 |title= Nomination Database |access-date=May 25, 2016 |via= Nobelprize.org}}</ref>
Upon Sohn's death in 2006, [[UN Secretary General]] [[Kofi Annan]] issued a statement noting Sohn's reputation as "a voice of reason and source of wisdom," and celebrating his "firm belie[f] in the importance of the United Nations and of the rule of law in settling international disputes."▼
 
▲Upon Sohn's death in 2006, [[UN Secretary General]] [[Kofi Annan]] issued a statement noting Sohn's reputation as "a voice of reason and source of wisdom," and celebrating his "firm belie[f] in the importance of the United Nations and of the rule of law in settling international disputes."<ref>{{cite web|title=Secretary-General Saddened at Death of Professor Louis Sohn, Important Figure in History of United Nations, International Law |url=https://www.un.org/press/en/2006/sgsm10534.doc.htm |work=Press Release |access-date=May 25, 2016 |date=23 June 2006}}</ref>
 
== See also ==
* [[Vicente Blanco Gaspar]]
* [[Roger Fisher (academic)|Roger Fisher]]
 
==Notes==
{{Reflist}}
 
==References==
* {{cite journal |first=Detlev F. |last=Vagts, '|author-link=Detlev F. Vagts |title=Louis Sohn', |journal=Harvard Journal of International Law vol. |volume=48 (|year=2007), pp.&nbsp;|pages=19–21 }}▼
* [http://www.nytimes.com/2006/06/23/us/23sohn.html ''New York Times'' "Louis B. Sohn, Passionate Supporter of the U.N., Dies at 92" June 23 2006]
▲* Detlev F. Vagts, 'Louis Sohn', Harvard Journal of International Law vol. 48 (2007), pp.&nbsp;19–21
 
==External referenceslinks==
* {{cite web
| url = http://oasis.lib.harvard.edu/oasis/deliver/findingAidDisplay?_collection=oasis&inoid=4834
| title = Finding aid for Louis B. Sohn, Papers, 1936-19791936–1979.
| publisher = Harvard Law School Library}}
*{{Internet Archive author |sname=Louis Bruno Sohn}}
 
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[[Category:Harvard UniversityLaw School alumni]]
[[Category:Harvard University faculty]]
[[Category:University of Georgia faculty]]
[[Category:Presidents of the American Society of International Law]]
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