Ignacy Koschembahr-Łyskowski (1864–1945) was a Polish jurist and scholar of

civil law Civil law may refer to: * Civil law (common law), the part of law that concerns private citizens and legal persons * Civil law (legal system), or continental law, a legal system originating in continental Europe and based on Roman law ** Private la ...

. After studies in Berlin and a

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in Breslau, Koschembahr-Łyskowski taught Roman law at the universities of Fribourg,

Lemberg Lviv ( uk, Львів) is the largest city in Western Ukraine, western Ukraine, and the List of cities in Ukraine, seventh-largest in Ukraine, with a population of . It serves as the administrative centre of Lviv Oblast and Lviv Raion, and is o ...

and Warsaw from 1895 to 1930. Koschembahr-Łyskowski was a member and, since 1927, the vice president of the legislative committee that sought to reunify the law of the re-established Polish republic. He created a draft of the general provisions of a Polish civil code.

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Polish legal scholars Academic staff of the University of Warsaw Academic staff of the University of Lviv Academic staff of the University of Fribourg 1864 births 1945 deaths {{Poland-bio-stub