Ivo Lapenna (5 November 1909 15 December 1987) was a

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law professor and Esperantist, born in

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in 1909.

Career

Lapenna graduated in 1933 as Doctor of Law from the

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. He also studied music at the

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in the same year. In 1942 Lapenna was involved in the

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for the duration of the Second World War and after the war became Professor of International Law and International Relations at Zagreb University until 1949. He then worked in London from 1951 at the School of Slavonic and East European Studies and taught subjects regarding Soviet Law at the University College London with fellow academics, Edward Johnson, Albert K. R. Kiralfi and William E. Butler. He was a noted

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speaker and served as the President of the

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between 1964 and 1974, and nine years as General Secretary. Lapenna was highly regarded as an orator in Esperanto, authored a number of books, and was the driving force behind the 1954 Montevideo Resolution in which

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recognized Esperanto. Lapenna was also counsel-advocate at the International Court of Justice at The Hague. He died in

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in 1987 and is buried in Rødovre Kirkegård in Copenhagen. __NOTOC__

Works

* * ''Ivo Lapenna, 'The Yugoslav Constitution of 1963', International and Comparative Law Quarterly 18, no. 2 (1969): 469–471.''

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Ivo Lapenna Foundation
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