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Andreas (Andy) Lowenfeld (1930–2014)

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2017

Lord Collins of Mapesbury
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Andy Lowenfeld, a member of the Board of Editors of this journal from 1978 to 1995, and an honorary editor thereafter, died on June 9, 2014, a few days after his eighty-fourth birthday, in New York City.

Everyone who knew him, as friend, or colleague, or student, or client, wondered at his sparkling intellect, infectious humor, imagination, and boundless curiosity. He always questioned. He never took anything for granted. He was no narrow specialist. His interests included aviation law, international economic law, private international law, public international law, and procedural law. More than any other author or practitioner in the United States, he decried “the unconvincing separation between public and private international law” and practiced what he preached.

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American Journal of International Law , Volume 109 , Issue 1 , January 2015 , pp. 58 - 67
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Copyright © American Society of International Law 2015

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London. Lord Collins (Lawrence Collins) is a Fellow of the British Academy and a former Justice of the UK Supreme Court.

References

1 Andreas F. Lowenfeld, International Litigation and the Quest for Reasonableness: Essays in Private international Law 1 (1996); see also Lowenfeld, Andreas F., Public Law in the International Arena: Conflict of Laws, International Law, and Some Suggestions for Their Interaction, 163 Recueil Descours 311passim (1979)Google Scholar.

2 X A.G. v. A Bank [1983] 2 All ER 464, at 473.

3 The writer is indebted to Peter Crane, a cousin, for personal history.

4 His paternal grandfather, Raphael Löwenfeld, was Tolstoy’s German translator and Tolstoy’s first biographer in any language (1892). In 1894 he also founded the Schiller Theater in Berlin, which was conceived as a people’s theatre, where rich and poor alike could see drama at low cost. It still functions, at a different location. Professor Max Rothstein (1859–1940), the distinguished classicist, was Henry Lowenfeld’s uncle.

5 deVries, Henry P. & Lowenfeld, Andreas F., Jurisdiction in Personal Actions—a Comparison of Civil Law Views, 44 IOWA L. Rev. 306 (1959)Google Scholar.

6 Lowenfeld, Andreas F., Claims Against Foreign States—a Proposal for Reform of United States Law, 44 N.Y.U. L. Rev. 901, 901 (1969)Google Scholar. See also Lowenfeld, Andreas F., Litigating a Sovereign Immunity Claim—the Haiti Case, 49 N.Y.U. L. Rev. 377 (1974)Google Scholar.

7 Reprinted as Lowenfeld, Andreas F., Claims Against Foreign States—a Proposal for Reform of United States Law, 44 N.Y.U. L. Rev. 901 (1969)Google Scholar.

8 Lowenfeld, Andreas F., “Doing Unto Others...“—the Chicken War Ten Years After, 4 J. Mar. L. & Com. 599, 599 (1972–1973)Google Scholar.

9 Andreas F. Lowenfeld, International Economic Law 539 n.12 (2d ed. 2008) [hereinafter International Economic Law 2 ded.]. His opening statement to the Conference is re-printed in his Aviation Law at paragraph 5.3 (1972; 2d. ed. 1981) [hereinafter Aviation Law].

10 Lowenfeld, Andreas F., The ICSID Convention: Origins and Transformation, 38 GA. J. Int.’L & Comp. L. 47, 48 (2009)Google Scholar.

11 See Lowenfeld, Andreas F. & Mendelsohn, Allan I., The United States and the Warsaw Convention, 80 Harv. L. Rev. 497 (1967)CrossRefGoogle Scholar (an article much cited by the courts).

12 104 ASIL Proc. 501–02 (2010).

13 Koh, Harold Hongju, The State Department Legal Adviser’s Office: Eight Decades in Peace and War, 100 Geo. L. J. 1747, 1753 (2012)Google Scholar; see Abram Chayes, Thomas Ehrlich & Andreas F. Lowenfeld, International Legal Process (1968), a chapter of which andreas F. Lowenfeld, The International Monetary System (1977) was a development.

14 Aviation Law, supra note 9, at vii.

15 Lowenfeld, Andreas F., Conflict Of laws: Federal, State, and International Perspectives (2d. ed. Revised 2002)Google Scholar.

16 See Symposium, A Special Tribute to andreas Lowenfeld, 42 N.Y.U. J. Int’l L. & Pol. 1 (2009).

17 George F. Kennan, American Diplomacy 1900–1950, at 95 (1951).

18 Lowenfeld, Andreas F., On Teaching International Law, 1 N.Y.U. J. Int’l L. & Pol. 61, 63–64 (1968)Google Scholar.

19 International Economic Law, 2d ed., supra note 9.

20 Lowenfeld, supra note 1, at v.

21 In particular, F. A. Mann, Kurt Lipstein, and the present writer.

22 Lowenfeld, Andreas F., Public Law in the International Arena: Conflict of Laws, International Law, and Some Suggestions for Their Interaction, 163 Recueil Descours 311, 321 (1979)Google Scholar; Lowenfeld, Andreas F., Conflict of Laws English Style: Review Essay, 37 AM. J. Comp. L. 353, 384–404 (1989)CrossRefGoogle Scholar.

23 See Collins, Lawrence, Professor Lowenfeld and the Enforcement of Foreign Public Law, 42 N.Y.U. J. Int’l L. & Pol. 125 (2009)Google Scholar.

24 Lowenfeld, Andreas F., Thoughts About a Multinational Judgments Convention: A Reaction to the von Mehren Report, 57 Law & Contemp. Probs. 289, 289 (1994)CrossRefGoogle Scholar.

25 104 ASIL Proc. 501–02 (2010).

26 For one example among many, see Cheatham, Elliot Evans, Goodrich, Herbert Funk, Griswold, Erwin Nathaniel & Reese, Willis L. M., Cases on the Conflict Of Laws (4th ed. 1957)Google Scholar.

27 1 John Bassett Moore, A Digest Of International Law 102–03 (1906) (foreign judgments); id. at 104–33 (letters rogatory); 2 Green Hackworth, A Digest Of International Law 86 –97 (foreign judgments); id. at 97–124 (letters rogatory).

28 Lowenfeld, supra note 1, at 228.

29 Hartford Fire Ins. Co. v. California 509 U.S. 764 (1993).

30 Id. at 771.

31 Id. at 796.

32 Restatement (Third) Of the Foreign Relations Law Of the United States §§403cmt.e (“Conflicting exercises of jurisdiction”), 415 cmt. j (“Reliance on law of state where conduct occurred”) (1987).

33 This sets out various connecting factors.

34 Lowenfeld, Andreas F., Harold Maier, Comity, and the Foreign Relations Restatement, 39 Vand. J. Transnat’l. L. 1414, 1424–25 (2006)Google Scholar.

35 Lowenfeld, supra note 1, at 27–28; see also Lowenfeld, Andreas F., Conflict, Balancing of Interests, and the Exercise of Jurisdiction to Prescribe: Reflections on the Insurance Antitrust Case, 89 AJIL 42 (1995)CrossRefGoogle Scholar.

36 He would not have said, and did not say, that exercise of jurisdiction by the United States, the place of the intended effect of the challenged agreement, would be unreasonable: Lowenfeld, supra note 34, at 1424–25.

37 65-I Annuaire De L’institut De Droit International 244 –313 (1993) (report); 66-I Annuaire De L’institut De Droit International 497–501 (1995) (supplemental report); 66-II Annuaire De L’Institut De Droit International 463–73 (1996) (resolution).

38 Allstate Ins. Co.v.Hague, 449 U.S. 302 (1981); Republic of Argentina v. Weltover, Inc., 504 U.S. 607 (1992); Hartford Fire Ins. Co.v. Hartford, 509 U.S. 764 (1993). Healso contributed to amicus briefs in Mitsubishi Motors Corp. v. Soler Chrysler-Plymouth, Inc., 473 U.S. 614 (1985) and Asahi Metal Industry Co. v. Superior Court of California, Solano County, 480 U.S. 102 (1987).

39 Especially a series of cases by holocaust survivors against the French State Railways, including Abrams v. Société nationale des chemins de fer franc¸ais, 332 F.3d 173 (2d Cir. 2003); Freund v. Republic of France, 592 F. Supp. 540 (S.D.N.Y. 2008), aff’d sub nom. Freund v. Société nationale des chemins de fer français, 391 F. App’x 939 (2d Cir. 2010). See also Aerotrade, Inc. v. Republic of Haiti, 376 F. Supp. 1281 (S.D.N.Y. 1974), with a long commentary in Lowenfeld, Andreas F., Litigating a Sovereign Immunity Claim—the Haiti Case, 49 N.Y.U. L. Rev. 377 (1974)Google Scholar.

40 Oil Platforms (Iran v. U.S.), Preliminary Objection, 1996 ICJ Rep. 803.

41 See, e.g., Cambridge Biotech Corp. v. Pasteur Sanofi Diagnostics, 740 N. E. 2d 195 (Mass. 2000); Tolliver v. Naor, 115 F. Supp. 2d 697 (E.D. La. 2000); In re New York Bank, [1983] E.C.C. 342 (QB).

42 Allstate Ins. Co. v. Hague, supra note 38.

43 Lowenfeld, Andreas F., Renvoi Among the Law Professors: An American’s View of the European View of American Conflict of Laws, 30 AM. J. Comp. L. 99, 99 (1982)CrossRefGoogle Scholar.

44 von Mehren, Arthur T. & Trautman, Donald T., Constitutional Control of Choice of Law: Some Reflections on Hague, 10 Hofstra L. Rev. 35 (1981)Google Scholar.

45 Id. at 36.

46 Reese, Willis L. M., The Hague Case: An Opportunity Lost, 10 Hofstra L. Rev. 195, 201–02 (1981)Google Scholar.

47 Lowenfeld, Andreas F., There Might-Have-Beens: A Reaction to the Symposium on Allstate Insurance Co. v. Hague, 10 Hofstra L. Rev. 1045, 1046 (1982)Google Scholar.

48 Id. at 1057.

49 Silberman, Linda J., Introduction: A Personal Note, 42 N.Y.U. J. Intl’l L. & Pol. 3, 9 (2009)Google Scholar.