law émigré max rheinstein (1899–1977) radigmatic, cognitive turn seen in all the Scandinavian countries.13 The Scandinavian legal scholars who in the post-war era spent time at Ivy League law schools met there the distinguished German legal scholars, who in their new contexts had became representatives of international private law and comparative law.14 Max Rheinsteinwas born in 1899 in Bad Kreuznach, Bavaria, and he died in 1977 when on holiday in Bad Gastein, Austria. His was a dual identity as a BavarianGerman and a US citizen. The cultural environments where he pursued his scholarly career in the most turbulent decades of the twentieth century were Munich, Berlin, Chicago, and Palo Alto. He studied law in Munich in the dramatic years after the Treaty of Versailles. He graduated there and obtained his two Staatsexams and in Berlin in 1934 his Dr. jur. It was as a student that he came to know the first Institute of Comparative Law, founded by the legendary law professor Ernst Rabel.15 Rheinstein worked as Rabel’s library assistant, and when in 1926 Rabel was made director of the new Kaiser Wilhelm Institute of Foreign and International Private Law – housed in the old guestrooms of Berlin Palace – Rheinstein went too as intern director of the library. The institute was dominated by the new legal premises of the Weimar Republic, leaving a theoretically and dogmatically oriented jurisprudence for a much more pragmatic and realistic jurisprudence, or inRheinstein’s own words, ‘the transformation from a legislative-oriented to a problem13 Kjell Å. Modéer, ‘When the Wind Turned from South to West: The Transition of Scandinavian Legal Cultures 1945–2000: A Comparative Sketch’, in Olivier Moréteau, Aniceto Masferrer & Kjell Å. Modéer (eds.), Comparative Legal History: Research Handbook in Comparative Law(Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, 2019), 400 ff. 14 Kjell Å. Modéer, ‘Young Men Go West! Nordiska jurister, deras studieresor till efterkrigstidens U.S.A. och den rättskultur de mötte’, in Boel Flodgren et al. (eds.), Vänbok till Axel Adlercreutz (Lund: Juristförlaget i Lund, 2007), 309 ff. 15 Max Rheinstein, ‘Gedächtnisrede für Geheimrat Professor Dr. Rabel bei der Gedenkfeier der Juristischen Fakultät der Freien Universität Berlin’, JuristenZeitung (1956), 135–6, 137; Max Rheinstein, ‘Ernst Rabel’, in Hans Dölle, Max Rheinstein & Konrad Zweigert (eds.) Festschrift für Ernst Rabel, i (Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 1954). 259 Early career
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