Louis Bruno Sohn (1914-2006) served on the Harvard Law School faculty from 1946 to 2006. He was a Research Fellow in International Law 1946-1947; Lecturer on Law 1947-1951; Assistant Professor of Law and John Harvey Gregory Lecturer on World Organization 1951-1953; Professor of Law and John Harvey Gregory Lecturer on World Organization 1953-1961; Bemis Professor of International Law and John Harvey Gregory Lecturer on World Organization 1961-1981; and an Emeritus professor 1981-2006.
Research: International law, human rights law, international environmental law.
Education: John Casimir University LL.B. 1935, M. Dipl. Sc. 1935; Harvard Law School LL.M. 1940, S.J.D. 1958.
Selected Scholarship / Representative Publications: “Cases on United Nations Law” (first published 1956); “World Peace through World Law” (co-author, first published 1958); “Rights in Conflict: The United Nations and South Africa” (1994); “Cases and Materials on the Law of the Sea” (co-author, first published 2004).
Noteworthy Appointments: Awarded Manley O. Hudson Medal by the American Society of International Law, 1996.