Published by Catholic University Press, Washington DC, 1953
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Original Printed Wrappers. Condition: Very Good. First Edition Thus. Reprinted from Seminar, Volume XI, 1953; Autograph; 23 pages; Clean and secure in original printed wrappers; inscribed on front wrapper "To my very Dear Friend / Mr. F.X. Dwyer / with / kindest regards / K.G." OCLC 237390094Reprinted from Seminar, an annual extraordinary number of the Jurist, Vol. XI, 1953; pp. [59]-81 Kazimierz Grzegorz Ignacy Grzybowski (1907 in Czortków 1993) was a Polish lawyer, international law specialist, and sovietologist. In 1928 he became a lecturer for the Department of Political Law and the Law of the Nations of the Jagiellonian University. As a scholarship holder of the Kosciuszko Foundation, he stayed for a year (1931-1932) at the American Harvard University, where he obtained a doctoral degree based on his work on Article 60 of the Statute of the Permanent Court of Justice. After the outbreak of World War II, the September campaign and the aggression of the USSR on Poland on 17 September 1939 and the capitulation of Lviv began operations in the Democratic Union of Docents and Assistants of the Jagiellonian University in October 1939, organized at the Department of International Law of the Jagiellonian University. In April 1940, he was arrested by the Soviets and deported into the Soviet Union (at the time, the arrests of Wachlowski and Mikuszewski were murdered as part of the Katyn massacre). He regained his freedom by the Sikorski-Majski Treaty of 30 July 1941. After the evacuation from the USSR, he stayed in Iran from March 1942, and in the summer of 1942 he was sent to Palestine where he became a lecturer for Polish refugees at the Higher Scientific Courses. From 1948 to 1960, he was an adviser to the U.S. government for Soviet affairs. From 1950 he was a member of the Polish Scientific Society in Obmaining. From 1951 to 1960, he was a legal analyst and publisher in the European Department of Congress at the United States Library (in the European Law Division Library of Congres). From 1961 to 1962, he worked at the National Center for Law at George Washington University in Washington. From 1964, he was Professor of International Law at Duke University (Durham, North Carolina); Signed by Author.