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  • Arthur Nussbaum was a German jurist, born in Berlin, best known for his writings on private international law, the law of money, and the history of public international law. He left Nazi Germany and came to Columbia Law School in 1934 and remained active as a scholar there until shortly before his death.Nussbaum came to prominence in 1914 when he published Die Rechtstatsachenvorschung (Fact Research in Law), an innovative forty-eight-page tract that anticipated some elements of American legal realism. [Source: Encyclopedia of Law & Society: American and Global Perspectives; Nussbaum, Arthur (1877–1964)]

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