Frederick Alexander Mann

Frederick Alexander Mann, CBE, FBA, QC (Hon.) also known as Francis Mann (11 August 1907 – 16 September 1991) was a German-born British jurist. A solicitor in private practice for most of his career, he was nevertheless one of the most influential legal scholars of his generation, being a noted authority on international law and the law of money.

Biography Mann was born in Frankenthal, Rhenish Palatinate, Germany, the son of a Jewish lawyer. He was educated at the University of Geneva, the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, and the Friedrich Wilhelm University of Berlin, where he took a DrJur. In 1933, Mann and his wife, Eleanore Ehrlich, moved to the United Kingdom, in response to the Nazis' assumption of power. The work was the first systematic study of the subject in English, in addition of being one of the first books by a living author to be quoted in court, tradition hitherto dictating that only works by deceased jurists could be used.

During the Second World War, was designated by the British as an enemy alien, although he was not interned because the local police force refused to do so. In 1946, he was naturalized as a British subject. In the same year, he returned to Germany as a member of the Legal Division of the Allied Control Council.

Selected publications

Studies in International Law (1973) Foreign Affairs in English Courts (1986) Further Studies in International Law (1990)