ADVANCE ARTICLE: Miloš VEC, "A Luminous Trace. Commemorating the Frankfurt Lawyer and Historian of International Law Michael Stolleis (20 July 1941–18 March 2021)" (Journal of the History of International Law/Revue d'histoire du droit international) (OPEN ACCESS)

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First paragraph:

Perhaps it is not an inappropriate idea to have a profile of the late pioneer of global international legal history and emeritus editor of this journal, Michael Stolleis, begin in a Munich attic room. So let’s travel back a few decades, to Munich in the late 1960s, where Stolleis, a doctoral student and later post-doctoral lecturer, received crucial inspiration for his style of thinking.

Read further on the journal's website: DOI 10.1163/15718050-12340188. 

A German version is available here: DOI 10.1163/15718050-12340190

OBITUARY: Henri LEGOHÉREL 1937-2019 (AHFD)

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Our colleagues of the AHFD published an obituary of Henri Legohérel, legal historian. He is the author of a general summary on the history of international law (Histoire du droit international public, PUF, 1996) in the well-known Que-sais-je ? series of the Presses universitaires de France. For an overview of the rich publication list (notably on the history of public law, maritime history and the history of economics), we refer to the obituary.

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OBITUARY: Yasuaki ONUMA (+ 16 OCT 2018)

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Professor Yasuaki ONUMA (University of Tokyo), an acclaimed and worldwide appreciated scholar of international law, has left us three weeks ago. Dr Aiko Nakai (Kyoto University) was so kind as to compose the following obituary, recalling his major works:

Yasuaki ONUMA, professor emeritus of the University of Tokyo, passed away of cancer on October 16. Born in Yamagata. Author of A Transcivilizational Perspective on International Law (Brill (Pocket Books of the Hague Academy of International Law, 2010), Le droit international et le Japon: Une vision trans-civilisationnelle du monde (Pedone, 2016), International Law in a Transcivilizational World (Cambridge University Press, 2017), etc. Editor of A Normative Approach to War: Peace, War, and Justice in Hugo Grotius (Clarendon Press,1993). 

Professor Onuma also contributed lectures to the UN Audiovisual Library of International Law. These lectures remain on the internet and are accessible through Youtube.