www.wikipedia.org, le 10-12-2005
Information trouvée : John Wolff, a Georgetown University faculty member believed to be the oldest active
law professor in the country, died of cardiovascular disease December 7, 2005. Mr.
Wolff, who had taught at Georgetown's Law Center since 1961. was born in Montreal,
Quebec, Canada, and raised in Berlin, Germany, and studied law at universities in
Berlin and Heidelberg, Germany. He received a law degree from the University of Heidelberg
in 1929. That same year, he went to New York, New York, where he received an advanced
law degree from Columbia University in 1930 and became a member of the Columbia Law
School faculty. After the war, he served as deputy to the U.S. representative to the
United Nations War Crimes Commission. Upon returning to the United States, Mr. Wolff
worked for the Department of Justice, retiring in the 1970s but continuing to serve
as an adviser on international and foreign law.