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David Weissbrodt
Born(1944-10-13)October 13, 1944
Minneapolis, Minnesota, U.S.
Known forDrafting the Minnesota Protocol
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David S. Weissbrodt (October 13, 1944 โ€“ November 11, 2021) was an American legal scholar. He was

Regents Professor Emeritus and Fredrikson & Byron Professor of Law Emeritus at the University of Minnesota Law School.[1]

Biography

Weissbrodt was born into a family of lawyers and scholars in Washington, D.C., on October 13, 1944.

Nazi war crimes during World War II.[6] His cousin, Aurthur Weissbrodt, was a judge on the United States bankruptcy court for the Northern District of California.[7][8]

He earned his A.B. from

Mathew O. Tobriner of the Supreme Court of California and practiced law at Covington & Burling.[2] He joined the law faculty of the University of Minnesota in 1975.[9]

Weissbrodt launched the Human Rights Center at the University of Minnesota and built the largest human rights library in the world in 1988.[9] He was named Regents Professor in 2005, the highest honor awarded to a faculty member.[10]

From 1996 to 2003, Weissbrodt was a member of the United Nations Sub-Commission on the Promotion and Protection of Human Rights and chaired it from 2001 to 2002, becoming the first U.S. citizen to head a U.N. human rights body since Eleanor Roosevelt.[1][2][9] He served as the U.N. Special Rapporteur on the rights of non-citizens from 2000 to 2003.[11] He was a director of the United Nations Voluntary Trust Fund on Contemporary Forms of Slavery and was elected its chairman in 2008.[1][12][13]

Wessbrodt was also a founder of the Center for Victims of Torture.[14][15] During the 1980s, he also helped establish guidelines for effectively investigating extrajudicial killings, known today as the Minnesota Protocol on the Investigation of Potentially Unlawful Death.[16][17]

Weissbrodt died at the age of 77 on November 11, 2021.[10]

References

  1. ^ a b c "Weissbrodt, David | University of Minnesota Law School". law.umn.edu. Retrieved 2022-06-25.
  2. ^ a b c "U. Minnesota Professor Splits Time Between Law School, U.N." archive.nytimes.com. Retrieved 2022-06-25.
  3. ^ "Obituaries". The Washington Post. May 20, 1995. Retrieved June 25, 2022.
  4. ^ "Collection: Selma J. Mushkin Papers | Georgetown University Archival Resources". findingaids.library.georgetown.edu. Retrieved 2022-06-25.
  5. ^ "Lead Poisoning Expert Selma Mushkin". The Washington Post. December 4, 1979. Retrieved June 25, 2022.
  6. ^ "Abe Weissbrodt; attorney probed Nazi companies - The Boston Globe". archive.boston.com. Retrieved 2022-06-25.
  7. ^ "Arthur S. Weissbrodt". United States Courts. Retrieved 2022-06-25.
  8. ^ "ILC Judicial Profile Series: United States Bankruptcy Judge M. Elaine Hammond (Northern District of California) โ€“ California Lawyers Association". 6 August 2016. Retrieved 2022-06-25.
  9. ^ a b c Read, Katy. "David Weissbrodt, longtime University of Minnesota professor who founded its Human Rights Center, dies". Star Tribune. Retrieved 2022-06-25.
  10. ^ a b "Minnesota Law Mourns the Passing of Legendary Human Rights Professor David Weissbrodt | University of Minnesota Law School". law.umn.edu. Retrieved 2022-06-25.
  11. JSTOR 10.5305/amerjintelaw.104.4.0714
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  12. ^ "UN Voluntary Trust Fund on Contemporary Forms of Slavery". Retrieved 2022-06-25.
  13. ^ "Board of Trustees of UN Voluntary Fund on Contemporary Forms of Slaver Concludes Tenth Session | Meetings Coverage and Press Releases". www.un.org. Retrieved 2022-06-25.
  14. ^ "David S. Weissbrodt". The Center for Victims of Torture. 2015-08-13. Retrieved 2022-06-25.
  15. ^ "Center for Victims of Torture Mourns the Loss of David Weissbrodt, Founder and Leader". The Center for Victims of Torture. 2021-11-12. Retrieved 2022-06-25.
  16. ^ "In the Bones". www.minnesotaalumni.org. 2019-05-13. Retrieved 2022-06-25.
  17. ^ Prestholdt, Jennifer (2016-02-27). "The Minnesota Protocol: Creating Guidelines for Effective Investigations". The Human Rights Warrior. Retrieved 2022-06-25.
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