Wolfgang Gaston Friedmann (25 January 1907 – 20 September 1972) was a German American legal scholar.
Being Jewish, he immigrated to London in 1934, shortly after the Nazis' seizure of power in Germany.
He obtained a University of London LLM, taught at University College London, became a British citizen in 1939 and served in the British Army during the Second World War.
[3] In 1972, he was robbed and stabbed to death in front of Public School 36 at Amsterdam Avenue between 122d and 123d Streets near Columbia's campus in Manhattan.
[4] The Wolfgang Friedmann Memorial Award was established in his honor.