[1][2] The Lord Kissen Memorial Prize was established in 1987 at Glasgow University in his name, awarded to the best student in forensic medicine.
[3] He was born Manuel Abraham Kissenisky on 3 May 1912 in Vilnius in Lithuania.
His family left the area and moved to Scotland while he was young and they settled in Glasgow.
He mainly practiced in Glasgow and rose to be Queen's Counsel (QC).
He worked on the Local Government (Scotland) Act 1947 (10 & 11 Geo.