Background
Von Mehren, Robert B. was born on August 10, 1922.
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Robert B. Von Mehren
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Yale (Bachelor of Arts, 1942). Harvard (Bachelor of Laws, 1946).
Career
Worked at Debevoise & Plimpton (New York, NY) specializing in General Practice. Admitted to the bar, 1946, N.Y. Phi Beta Kappa. Member, Board of Editors, 1945-1946, President, 1946, Harvard Law Review.
Law Clerk to Judge Learned Hand, United States. Court of Appeals, Second Circuit, 1946-1947 and to Justice Stanley F. Reed, United States. Supreme Court, 1947-1948.
Member, Board of Editors, American Journal of International Law, 1979-1989. Honorary Editor, 1990. Author: "From Vynior's Case to Mitsubishi: The Future of Arbitration and Public Law," XII Brooklyn Journal of International Law 585, 1986.
"Transnational Litigation in American Courts: An Overview of Problems and Issues," 3 Dickinson Journal of International Law 43, 1984. "Discovery Abroad: The Perspective of the United States. Private Practitioner," 16 New York University Journal of International Law and Politics 985, 1984.
"The Iran-USA Arbitral Tribunal," XXXI, The American Journal of Comparative Law 713, 1983. "International Arbitration Between States and Foreign Private Parties: The Libyan Nationalization Cases," 75 American Journal of International Law 476, 1981. "Recognition and Enforcement of Foreign-Country Judgments in the United States," 6 Law and Policy in International Business 37, 1974.
"Enforcement of Foreign Judgments in the United States," 17 Virginia Journal of International Law 401, 1977. "Multinational Corporations: Conflicts and Controls," XI Stanford Journal of International Studies 1, 1976. "The Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act of 1976," 17 Columbia Journal of International Law 33, 1978.
"The Proxy Rules: A Case Study in the Administrative Process," 29 Law and Contemporary Problems 728, 1964. "The Antitrust Laws and Regulated Industries: The Doctrine of Primary Jurisdiction," 67 Harvard Law Review 929, 1954. Counsel, Preparatory Commission of International Atomic Energy Agency, 1956-1957.
American Arbitration Association Director, 1984. Member, Executive Committee, 1986-1995and Chairman of Arbitration Law Committee, 1986. Member: The Association of the Bar of the City of New York (Member, Executive Committee, 1978-1982.
Chairman: Ad Hoc Committee on Foreign Payments, 1975-1981. Committee on International Law, 1975-1978). International Law Association (Vice Chairman, 1989.
President, American Branch, 1979-1986. Chairman of the Executive Committee, 1986-1992). American Society of International Law (Member, Executive Council, 1981-1984).
Practising Law Institute (President, 1979-1986. Chairman of Board, 1986-1996 and Chairman Executive, 1996). Debevoise & Plimpton a preeminent international law firm, was founded in 1931 and today has over 370 lawyers with offices in New York, Washington, D.C., Los Angeles, Paris, London and Budapest.
Membership
Member, Board of Editors, 1945-1946, President, 1946, Harvard Law Review. Law Clerk to Judge Learned Hand, United States. Court of Appeals, Second Circuit, 1946-1947 and to Justice Stanley F. Reed, United States.
Supreme Court, 1947-1948. Member, Board of Editors, American Journal of International Law, 1979-1989. Honorary Editor, 1990.
