Name Lazare Kopelmanas Died 1980 | Education University of Paris | |
Lazare Kopelmanas (born July 14 [O.S. July 1] 1907 in Kaunas, Lithuania; died December 9, 1980 in Geneva, Switzerland) was an international jurist and diplomat.
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Biography
After obtaining his candidate's degree in economic and social sciences at the University of Geneva in 1929, he went to the University of Paris to study law. Shortly after his graduation in 1935, he began to teach at its Institut des hautes études internationales and became professor in 1939. Later that same year he volunteered into the French army. During the German invasion of France in 1940, he was taken prisoner and interned in Stalag VII-A. After liberation he came back to the University of Paris, where his doctoral dissertation earned him Prix de thèse for the year 1945. From 1949 to 1961 he was Legal Adviser to the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE), and from 1961 to 1977 - adviser to the United Nations Office at Geneva in matters concerning legal aspects of trade, industry and technology transfer.
In different post-war years Kopelmanas lectured at the Centre d'Études de Politique Éntrangère (1948, 1950), Hague Academy of International Law (1950, 1976), Yale University (invited professor in 1957-1958), University of Geneva (1971–1973), University of Paris (1945–1948, 1960–1962, 1977).