About Guenter Treitel
Lived 1928 – 2019 (aged 90). Guenter Treitel was a British jurist, barrister and university teacher.
Sir Guenter Heinz Treitel (26 October 1928 – 14 June 2019 ) was a German-born English academic and Vinerian Professor of English Law.
Treitel was born in Berlin into a Jewish family, the son of a prominent lawyer, Theodor Treitel, and his wife, Hannah Lilly Levy. Treitel was once described by Lord Steyn as "one of the most distinguished academic writers on the law of contract in the English speaking world", and has often been described as the leading authority on English contract law. He was the author of Treitel on the Law of Contract,
Treitel retired as Vinerian Professor in 1997 and received a knighthood for services to law. Treitel had been a Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford from 1954 to 1979.
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Who was Guenter Treitel?
German-born English legal academic (1928–2019)
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Guenter Treitel was born on 26 October 1928 in Berlin.
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Guenter Treitel died on 14 June 2019.
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Guenter Treitel was a jurist, barrister and university teacher.
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Guenter Treitel was British.
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