Egon Guttman

Egon Guttman (born January 27, 1927 in Neuruppin, Germany) is professor of law and Levitt Memorial Trust Scholar Emeritus at American University, Washington College of Law. His major research fields are corporate and commercial law, and he has taught in various universities in England, Canada, Israel and Sudan.

Biography and education

Guttman was born in Neuruppin, Germany, in 1927. His parents were Isaac Guttman and Blima Guttman (née Liss). His family moved to Berlin when he was three years old, where he and his sister were taunted as Jewish kids.

After surviving the holocaust, Guttman emigrated to the United States in 1958, and naturalized in 1968.

He obtained a bachelor's degree in Laws at University of London in 1950, and continued with a master's degree at the same university (1952). He studied post-graduate in Northwestern University School Law, Chicago (1959).

As a member of the American Law Institute (ALI) and the American Bar Association (ABA), Professor Guttman has been involved in the revisions of various Articles of the Uniform Commercial Code, and as a member of U.S. Department of State Working Groups in the drafting of conventions relating to international commercial transactions. One of the areas of his expertise is in problems of international aspects of capital raising.

He is married to Inge Weinberg.

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