Academic career

Leon Newmark (A former Deputy for the United Synagogue) London N16

I read with sadness the excellent obituary on Sir Elihu Lauterpacht (JC, March 24). However, three of my contemporaries and I who attended his lectures at LSE in 1952-53 were shocked to realise that the sophisticated, elegant, softly spoken barrister who constantly defended himself academically against his ebullient and colourful antagonist Professor Georg Schwarzenberger at UCL,