Since 1931 he was a Professor at the University of Paris, from 1934 to 1940 — Professor of the Department of Civil and International Law of the University of Bucharest. In 1936 in Bucharest he married Ela Vorozhiltseva (nee Zelinger). After annexation of Bessarabia to the USSR in 1940, he returned to Chișinău where he was appointed Professor at the Chișinău Conservatory, the Pedagogical Institute and the Institute of Foreign Languages (there he taught German language). He became a member of the codification commission of the People's Commissariat of Justice of the Moldavian SSR.