Kurt Lipstein

Kurt Lipstein QC (19 March 1909 – 2 December 2006) was a German-born legal scholar.

Of Jewish descent, Lipstein emigrated after Adolf Hitler's rise to power.

Born in Frankfurt am Main, Lipstein earned his Abitur from Goethe-Gymnasium in 1927.

In 1934 he emigrated to the United Kingdom, and earned his doctorate at Trinity College, Cambridge, in 1936.

[1] After World War II, in which he spent some time in an internment camp as an enemy alien, he became a fellow of Clare College, and served as Professor of Comparative Law at the University of Cambridge (1973–76).