part v • comparative legal history • kjell å modéer in the USat the University of Pennsylvania and the University of California at Los Angeles. He met Rheinstein for the first time during the latter’s lecture tour in 1951. Over the years they corresponded often and exchanged publications. Rheinstein sent Schmidt his last publication, Einführung in die Rechtsvergleichung, interestingly enough only published in German. Each year Schmidt sent him the yearbookScandinavian Studies in Law, which he had founded, developed, and continued to edit. When Schmidt was in the USin 1963 Rheinstein invited him to visit Chicago the following year. Rheinstein wrote to the dean to introduce him as ‘one of the outstanding legal scholars of Scandinavia. …Schmidt also plays an influential role in Scandinavia, both in the Academic world and in politics.’40 Rheinstein also tried to involve Schmidt in another project of his, the International Encyclopedia of Comparative Law, with Kurt Lipstein as the main editor and Rheinstein as one of the co-editors responsible for the fourth volume on family law, but Schmidt declined the offer – he had left international private law behind to concentrate on his chair in labour law. Carl Jacob Arnholm in Oslo, however, was involved in the project. He paid a long visit to the US in 1957, including Chicago and WashingtonDC.41 They became close colleagues, and Rheinstein nominated Arnholm for an honorary degree at Chicago in 1968. There were two Finnish jurists, Zacharias Sundström and Tore Modeen, in Rheinstein’s scholarly network. Sundström was one of his students at Chicago in around 1960 and they developed a friendship, which for Rheinstein resulted in visits to Finland. Modeen he met for the first time in Lisbon in 1964 at the International Faculty of Comparative Law conference. Modeen was inspired by Rheinstein to take a research sabbatical in the US, spending a year at Tulane University in 1966–67. In 1957 the Stockholm law faculty celebrated its fiftieth anniversary, and marked it by awarding a number of honorary doctorates, among them 40 UChicago, SCRC, Max Rheinstein Papers, MRto Dean Neal, 19 Jan. 1964. 41 UChicago, SCRC, Max Rheinstein Papers, Carl Johan Arnholm to MR, Oslo 26 Feb. 1957. 268 International gatherings
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