[1] Lobingier's paternal grandparents settled in Pennsylvania in the early 1700s, but Charles was born in Lanark, Illinois on April 30, 1866.

Initially, he spent a year at the university's Latin School, where he was a classmate of Roscoe Pound.

[3] At the University of Nebraska Lobingier earned an AB degree in 1888 (with Honors and election to Phi Beta Kappa), an AM in 1892 and an LLM in 1894.

He was admitted to the Nebraska bar in 1890, practised there for ten years from 1892 to 1902, and married Ellen Ballon Hunker on 31 November 1898.

From 1900 to 1903 he was a Professor of Law at the University of Nebraska and he was granted a PHD from that institution in 1903.

(The Commission was created to assist the Nebraska Supreme Court in eliminating the backlog of cases that had accrued over several years.

[11] In 1949 he was appointed as Honorary Consultant in Modern Civil Law by the Library of Congress.

[12] Lobingier was to become Professor of Roman and Modern Civil Law at American university in 1950, but he never assumed that post.

[13] Lobingier's teaching positions were mostly part-time, and he practised law as a government attorney for many years.

Lobingier also served as a legal adviser to the U.S. Military government of Korea in 1946.

[14] One of Lobingier's most important professional activities was his work in the American Bar Association's Comparative Law Bureau, where he was an editor from 1907-1933.

At the Comparative Law Bureau he successfully lobbied for publication by the Bureau of a translation of Las Siete Partidas (for which he also wrote an introduction) by Samuel Parsons Scott.

[15] Another of Lobingier's significant professional endeavors was his leadership in the Riccobono Seminar of Roman Law in America.

The first incumbent of the chaired professorship was Leroy Sorenson Merrifield, who became a GW Law School professor emeritus.

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