»Magyarok a nagyvilágban«: Nékám Sándor (1905–1982), a jogi személy, az afrikai szokásjog, a komparatisztika kutatója

Varga, Csaba (2015) »Magyarok a nagyvilágban«: Nékám Sándor (1905–1982), a jogi személy, az afrikai szokásjog, a komparatisztika kutatója. IUSTUM AEQUUM SALUTARE, 11 (3). pp. 154-166. ISSN 1787-3223

Preview

Text EPA02445_ias_2015_03_10.pdf Download (363kB) | Preview

Abstract

»HUNGARIANS IN THE WORLD« Alexander Nekam (1905–1982), student of legal entity, African customary law, and comparativism Born from Pest downtown high middle class doctors’ family, having graduated in Budapest and postgraduating at the London School of Economics and the Harvard Law School, he became a law clerk at the Ministry of Justice, the Prime Minister’s Cabinet and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. After WWII the first embassador in Bucharest and an envoy to Moscow, he had to exile following the Communist take-over in 1948. Visiting several American universities, he became professor at the Northwestern University Law School (1957–1974). With The Personality Conception of the Legal Entity (Harvard University Press 1938) in the background, as a fairly debated author in the United States in amalgamation of American Legal Realism and Scandinavian Legal Realism, he was reflected by A. H. Campbell, Roscoe Pound, Max Radin, among others. As a field work legal anthropologist after WWII, he could describe tribal customs in action in their original setting, i.e., before the transformative westernising restatement could reduce them to rules. To this very day, his scholarly activity has remained unnoticed in Hungary.

Actions (login required)

Edit Item