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BIOGRAPHY

Bodenheimer was born in Berlin in 1908. He was educated in universities of Geneva, Munich, Heidelberg, and Berlin. After recieving his J.U.D. from University Of Heidelberg in 1933, he emigrated to the United States to escape from Nazi . He then got LL.B. from University Of Washington in 1937.

He joined the law faculty of the University Of Utah in 1946, and became a professo at the Law School Of University Of California, Davis in 1966.


WORKS

  • ''Jurisprudence: The Philosophy and Method of the Law'', Harvard University Press 1962.

  • ''Treatise on Justice'', 1967.

  • ''Power, Law, And Society; A Study of the Will to Power and the Will to Law'', 1972.

  • ''Philosophy of Responsibility'', 1980.



REFERENCES

  • Carol Bruch, et al, "Edgar Bodenheimer 1908-1991", in ''American Journal of Comparative Law'', Vol.39, No.4, pp.657-659.