page_title: Joseph Dainow
section_title: Law school
hierarchical_section_title: Joseph Dainow / Law school
caption_attribution_description: English: Gold Medal board in the McGill Law School listing the leading student for each year.
context_page_description: Joseph Dainow was a Canadian-American Professor of Law. He was born and grew up in Montreal, Canada and received a law degree from McGill University but spent most of his life in Baton Rouge, Louisiana where he was Professor of Law at Louisiana State University.
  Dainow was the founding editor of the Louisiana Law Review that began publishing several issues per year in 1938.
  He was the Chief Reporter for the Compiled Edition of the Civil Code of Louisiana, an
  important work published in 1940 with several updates over the years, that was the starting point for any major research into Louisiana Civil Law.
  During World War II, Major Joseph Dainow served in the Judge Advocate General's Corps, United States Army. In 1945 he prepared research materials for use in the Nuremberg Trials and went to Nuremberg as a member of the legal staff of the American prosecution team.
  Dainow was a member of the editorial board of the American Journal of Comparative Law
  and an active member of many national and international learned societies and organizations.
  He published over 300 works that are in over 1,000 libraries.
context_section_description: Dainow applied to the McGill Law School and was accepted, in spite of the strict quotas for Jews in effect at McGill at the time.
   
  He received the B.C.L. degree (Bachelor of Civil Law) from McGill in 1929, and as the leading student, was awarded the Gold Medal. Dainow went on to work on a PhD in law at the University of Dijon in France and in 1931 he received the degree Docteur en Droit.
caption: Gold Medal board in the McGill Law School listing the leading student for each year.
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