Allan I. Mendelsohn

Background

Mendelsohn, Allan I. was born in 1932 in Chicago, Illinois, United States.

Education

University of Illinois (S.B., 1954. Bachelor of Laws, 1955). The Sorbonne, Paris, France.

Harvard University (Master of Laws, 1956).

Career

Worked at Mendelsohn & Szymkowicz (Washington, DC) specializing in International, Arbitration, Litigation. Admitted to the bar, 1955, Illinois. 1966, District of Columbia.

Author: "Arbitration Agreements Under Taft Hartley Section 301," Yale Law Journal, December 1956. Co-author: "The United States and the Warsaw Convention," Harvard Law Review, January 1967. "International Air Charters," J. Air L. & Comm., March, 1979.

"Why the United States. Did Not Ratify Visby," J. March L.& Comm., January, 1992. Adjunct Professor, Georgetown University Law Center, 1980—.

Attorney: Office of General Counsel, Appellate Litigation, National Labor Relations Board, 1959-1962. Office of Legal Adviser, Department of State, 1963-1968. United States. Delegate to all Diplomatic International Conferences on Private International Air and Maritime Law, 1963-1968.

Arbitrator, American Arbitration Association. Member: The District of Columbia Bar. American Bar Association.

Works

• book

  • The United States and the Warsaw Convention, reprinted from Harvard Law Review, Vol. 80, No. 3, January 1967.

    (Reprint of the authors' discussion of the United States's...)

Membership

Member: The District of Columbia Bar. American Bar Association.