16 Facts About Otto Kahn-Freund

Sir Otto Kahn-Freund, QC was a scholar of labour law and comparative law.

Otto Kahn-Freund was a professor at the London School of Economics and the University of Oxford.

Otto Kahn-Freund was educated at the Goethe-Gymnasium, Frankfurt, and then studied law at the Frankfurt University.

Otto Kahn-Freund became judge of the Berlin labour court, 1929.

Otto Kahn-Freund wrote a pathbreaking article, contending that the Reichsarbeitsgericht was pursuing a "fascist" doctrine in 1931.

Otto Kahn-Freund continued working as a judge until 1933, shortly after Hitler seized the chancellorship in coalition with the conservative DNVP.

Otto Kahn-Freund found that radio workers were falsely accused of being communist and were entitled to maximum damages for unfair dismissal.

Otto Kahn-Freund was then dismissed by the Nazis in 1933.

Otto Kahn-Freund fled to London and became a student at the London School of Economics.

Otto Kahn-Freund became an assistant lecturer in law there in 1936 and professor in 1951.

Otto Kahn-Freund was appointed Professor of Comparative Law at the University of Oxford, and fellow of Brasenose College, Oxford in 1964 and elected FBA in 1965.

Otto Kahn-Freund became an honorary bencher of the Middle Temple in 1969 and a QC in 1972.

Otto Kahn-Freund played an important part in the establishment of labour law as an independent area of legal study, and is credited as the doyen of British Labour Law.

Otto Kahn-Freund laid the groundwork of a philosophical approach toward Labour Law in British scholarship, which had hitherto been characterised by empiricism.

Otto Kahn-Freund was a member of the Royal Commission on Reform of Trade Unions and Employers' Associations 1965.

Otto Kahn-Freund had a substantial and extensive influence on a generation of British labour lawyers, many of whom themselves passed on his influence in their own academic work, such as Bill Wedderburn, Paul L Davies, Mark Freedland, Keith Ewing, Roy Lewis and Jon Clarke.