Ivo Lapenna

Ivo Lapenna (5 November 1909 15 December 1987) was a Dalmatian Italian law professor and Esperantist, born in Split in 1909.

Career Lapenna graduated in 1933 as Doctor of Law from the University of Zagreb. He also studied music at the Zagreb Academy of Music in the same year.

In 1942 Lapenna was involved in the Italian resistance for the duration of the Second World War and after the war became Professor of International Law and International Relations at Zagreb University until 1949. Lapenna was also counsel-advocate at the International Court of Justice at The Hague.

He died in Copenhagen in 1987 and is buried in Rødovre Kirkegård in Copenhagen.

Works

Ivo Lapenna, 'The Yugoslav Constitution of 1963', International and Comparative Law Quarterly 18, no. 2 (1969): 469–471.