law émigré max rheinstein (1899–1977) three internationally renowned comparatists: Rheinstein, Hessel E. Yntema (1891–1966) of Michigan–Ann Arbor, and the French comparatist Léon Julliot de La Morandière (1885–1968) of Paris. Three Nordic law professors were nominated, Carl Jacob Arnholm (1899–1976) of Oslo, Poul Andersen (1888–1977) of Copenhagen, and Urho Castrén (1886– 1965), president of the Supreme AdministrativeCourt of Finland, as were three Swedes, Dag Hammarskjöld (1905–1961), the Secretary General of theUN, Ragnar Gyllensvärd (1891–1967), the chairman of the Supreme Court of Sweden, and Nils Vult von Steyern (1887–1966), former member of the Supreme Court of Sweden. Prof. Ljungman, the contact for the international honorands, was careful to fill them in on the degree ceremony and what to foreign observers seemed its more exotic elements. Back in Chicago, Rheinstein was busy with the annual conference of the International Association of Legal Science, held in September 1957 inChicagowith two Swedish participants, the Uppsala law professor Åke Malmström and a member of the Swedish Supreme Court, Emil Sandström. Then in the early 1960s, Sundström, one of Rheinstein’s students at Chicago, suggested starting a legal seminar with professors from Chicago and Scandinavian jurists. Rheinstein was keen on the idea and contacted Ljungman in Stockholm to recommend Sundström’s proposal.42 The result was a Scandinavian–American Legal Seminar, held at Hässelby Castle outside Stockholm at the end of August 1965. Eight professors of the Chicago law faculty participated, four from Norway four, three from Finland, four from Denmark, and from Sweden seven from Stockholm, two from Uppsala, and one from Gothenburg.43 The theme was how to design internationally uniform statutes for commerce between different countries. ‘You could reasonably liken the current situation to two different opinions on how a Bible text should be 42 UChicago, SCRC, Max Rheinstein Papers, MRto Seve Ljungman, Chicago 17 Sept. 1963. 43 From Norway, Carl Jacob Arnholm, Hans Petter Lundgaard, Knut Selmer, and Erling Selvig; from Finland, Heikki Jokela, Zacharias Sundström, and Antti Suviranta; from Denmark, Stig Jörgensen (Århus), Mogens Koktvedgaard, Ole Lando, and Halvor Lund Christiansen (Copenhagen); from Stockholm, Hilding Eek, Jan Hellner, Lars Hjerner, Folke Schmidt, Gunnar Lagergren, Jacob Sundberg, and Gillis Wetter; from Uppsala, Åke Malmström, and Stig Strömholm; and from Gothenburg, Kurt Grönfors. 269
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