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Marguerite Wolff (lawyer)
Marguerite Wolff (10 December 1883 – 21 May 1964) was a British legal scholar of Jewish descent. She was born Marguerite Jolowicz in London. Her brother was the Roman law scholar Herbert Felix Jolowicz. In 1906 she married Martin Wolff, a law professor at the University of Berlin. From January 1925 to March 1933 she was employed at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law, Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Foreign Public Law and International Law, first as an unofficial co-director and then as a research scholar. She also translated publications on English and American law. She later served as a librarian of the institute. When the Nazi Party came to power in April 1933, she was immediately removed from her position at the institute and returned to Great Britain. Her husband followed in the autumn of 1938. Wolff continued to provide translation for legal works. She had also served as translator at International Court of Justice, The Hague after Wo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Martin Wolff
Martin Wolff (26 September 1872 – 20 July 1953) was a professor of law at the University of Berlin in Germany. In 1934, he was expelled from his post by the Nazis and emigrated to Britain, where he became a fellow at Oxford University. He specialized in private international law and property law, writing numerous works, including standard works in German and English. Life Early life and studies (1872–1903) Martin Wolff, the son of Wilhelm Wolff and Lehna Wolff (née Ball) was born in Berlin on 26 September 1872, into the family of a Jewish businessman and brought up in the Jewish faith. He attended the Collège Français in Berlin and studied Law in Berlin. In 1894, he was awarded a doctorate from the law faculty based on a dissertation on ''The beneficium excussionis realis''. In 1900, he obtained his ''habilitation'' in Berlin, with the thesis ''Der Bau auf fremdem Boden, insbesondere der Grenzüberbau nach dem Bürgerlichen Gesetzbuche für das deutsche Reich auf ge ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |