In the latest installment of the University of Georgia's Georgia Groundbreaker series, which celebrates visionary faculty, students, alumni and leaders throughout the history of the University of Georgia, the legacy of Louis B. Sohn and his life's work of promoting international law and peace is highlighted.
A native of what then was called Lemberg, Austria-Hungary, and now is Lviv, Ukraine, Sohn came to the United States in 1939 at age 25, to be a research fellow at Harvard, where he went on to hold the chair in International law for almost 40 years. Sohn was the inaugural holder of the Emily and Ernest Woodruff Chair in International Law at the University of Georgia School of Law for a decade.He is best known for helping to draft the United Nations Charter in 1945, and for co-authoring the book “World Peace Through World Law” with Grenville Clark which resulted in 46 nominations for the Nobel Peace Prize. Today, 5,000 volumes from his personal collection of legal writings are housed at the Louis B. Sohn Library on International Relations, a branch of the Alexander Campbell King Law Library, located in the law school’s Dean Rusk International Law Center.
A native of what then was called Lemberg, Austria-Hungary, and now is Lviv, Ukraine, Sohn came to the United States in 1939 at age 25, to be a research fellow at Harvard, where he went on to hold the chair in International law for almost 40 years. Sohn was the inaugural holder of the Emily and Ernest Woodruff Chair in International Law at the University of Georgia School of Law for a decade.
He is best known for helping to draft the United Nations Charter in 1945, and for co-authoring the book “World Peace Through World Law” with Grenville Clark which resulted in 46 nominations for the Nobel Peace Prize.
Today, 5,000 volumes from his personal collection of legal writings are housed at the Louis B. Sohn Library on International Relations, a branch of the Alexander Campbell King Law Library, located in the law school’s Dean Rusk International Law Center.