Wolfgang Gaston Friedmann (25 January 1907 – 20 September 1972) was a German American legal scholar. Specializing in international law, he was a faculty member at

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Born in

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, Friedmann finished his studies of law at the

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in 1930. Being Ashkenazi Jews, Jewish, he immigrated to the United States shortly after the Machtergreifung, Nazis' seizure of power in Germany. Prior to 1955 he was a professor at the University of Toronto Law School in Toronto. In 1955, he became a professor of international law at

, where he founded the ''Columbia Journal of Transnational Law''. In 1972, he was robbed and stabbed to death in front of Public School 36 at Tenth Avenue (Manhattan), Amsterdam Avenue between 122d and 123d Streets near Columbia's campus in Manhattan. The Wolfgang Friedmann Memorial Award was established in his honor.

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