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JIRI GLOS
Jiri Glos, the second-term Vice President,
was born on December 31, 1924 in Poznan, Poland, where his father was the Representative
to the West Polish Government and Consul of the Czechoslovak Republic. He attended
secondary school in Dresden, Germany and in Prague where he obtained his final certificate
in 1944. He studied law at Charles University in Prague, graduated in 1948, and received
the Degree of Doctor of Law on December 3, 1948. He studied foreign languages and at the
end of the war had an excellent command of French, Spanish and English in
addition to German. In 1947, he took a course in English government in the University of
London, England. Immediately after graduation from the Faculty of Law of the
Charles University, he engaged in the practice of law at the Prague Bar and worked toward
a lectureship in the Faculty of Law. Having found out that his legal career would have
come to an end in the Law and Bar reform of January 1, 1950, and he would be sent to
work in coal mines in the P.T.P. military forced labor units, he crossed the border
to Bavaria late in 1949.There he worked in the offices of the International Refugee
Organization and with their assistance arrived in Melbourne, Australia in May, 1950.
In Melbourne, he worked in the Federal
Department of Labour and National Service. In 1953, he was awarded the Commonwealth
Scholarship for the study of law in the Faculty of Law of the University of Melbourne,
obtained his LL.B. in 1956, was admitted to the Victorian and Australian Bar as
Barrister and Solicitor, Barrister-at-Law of the Supreme Court of Victoria and of the High
Court of Australia, and engaged in legal practice. In 1958, he came to the Yale Law School
in New Haven, Connecticut, having been awarded the Sterling Fellowship. He received the
degree of LL.M. in 1959 and J.S.D. in 1960. While working toward his Doctorate
in the Yale Law School, he applied for a teaching appointment in the English law schools
and was offered a lectureship of English Common Law in the Faculty of Law of
the University of Singapore. He taught there from 1960 to 1963, when he returned to
New York. After practicing briefly in a New York law firm, he was appointed Professor of
Law in the St. Mary's University School of Law in San Antonio, Texas, in 1964.
In 1980, Prof. Glos came to Washington, D.C.
to work as legal advisor to the U.S. Congress in the Law Library of Congress and was
appointed Adjunct Professor of Law in the Georgetown University Law School.
In his legal career, Prof. Glos published two
books and numerous articles in legal periodicals on all five continents. His main subjects
are torts, property, public and private international law, and legal history.
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