Kelsen Appointed to Holmes Law Post

Establishment of the Oliver Wendell Holmes Lectureship at the Law School, and appointment of Dr. Hans Kelsen, professor of International Law at the Institute of International Studies, Geneva, as first holder of the new lectureship, were announced today by Dean James M. Landis.

The lectureship was established as a result of a bequest by the late Mr. Justice Oliver Wendell Homes '61, of the United States Supreme Court. Under the terms of the foundation, the Holmes Lectures will deal with aspects of the law and will be given not more than once in every three years.

Dr. Kelsen, regarded as probably the outstanding jurist of continental Europe, will give a series of public lectures in English in January and February on the general subject of the theory and substance of international law today.

Dr. Kelsen was a member of the Austrian Supreme Court 1920-30, author of the original draft of the constitution of the Austrian republic after the World War, Professor at the University of Vienna 1911-30, and Professor at the University of Cologne 1930-33.