Jens Iverson Westengard was an American legal scholar and diplomat.
12 Facts About Jens Westengard
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Jens Westengard was a faculty member at Harvard Law School, first assistant professor, later Bemis Professor of International Law.
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Between 1903 and 1915, Westengard served as a General Advisor in Foreign Affairs to the Government of Siam.
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Jens Westengard's father emigrated from Denmark to the United States in 1863.
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Jens Westengard attended Chicago public schools and found work as a stenographer.
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Jens Westengard taught on the faculty of Harvard Law School until 1903.
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In 1903 Jens Westengard left Harvard to become Assistant General Advisor to the government of Siam.
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Jens Westengard worked under his mentor and close Harvard Law School associate Edward H Strobel.
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Jens Westengard was effective in helping to develop a native government, a state administrative system and a criminal code.
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Jens Westengard was appointed judge of the Supreme Court of Appeals of Siam in 1911.
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Jens Westengard married Rebecca Aubrey Prosser on July 16,1898 in London, England.
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Shortly after he was informed that the Siamese government wished him to be their representative at the Paris Peace Conference after World War I, Jens Westengard died in Cambridge, Mass.