Ivo Lapenna

{{Short description|Dalmatian Italian professor and Esperantist}} {{Expand Esperanto|date=April 2023}} right|thumb|Ivo Lapenna, ca. 1980

'''Ivo Lapenna''' (5 November 1909 {{ndash}} 15 December 1987) was a Dalmatian Italian law professor and Esperantist, born in Split in 1909.

== Career == Lapenna graduated in 1933 as Doctor of Law from the University of Zagreb. He also studied music at the Zagreb Academy of Music in the same year.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web |last=Science |first=London School of Economics and Political |title=Ivo Lapenna (Lecturer in Soviet and Eastern European Law, 1964-1965, Professor 1974-1975) |url=https://www.lse.ac.uk/law/centenary/people/ivo-lapenna |access-date=2024-09-11 |website=London School of Economics and Political Science }}</ref>

In 1942 Lapenna was involved in the Italian resistance for the duration of the Second World War and after the war became Professor of International Law and International Relations at Zagreb University until 1949.<ref name=":0" />

He then worked in London from 1951 at the School of Slavonic and East European Studies and taught subjects regarding Soviet Law at the University College London with fellow academics, Edward Johnson, Albert K. R. Kiralfi and William E. Butler.<ref>{{Cite journal |last1=Butler |first1=William E. |last2=Kahn |first2=Jeffrey |date=May 2002 |title=Federalism or Federationism |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/1290449 |journal=Michigan Law Review |volume=100 |issue=6 |pages=1444 |doi=10.2307/1290449|jstor=1290449 |url-access=subscription }}</ref><ref name=":0" />

He was a noted Esperanto speaker and served as the President of the World Esperanto Association between 1964 and 1974, and nine years as General Secretary.<ref name=":1" /> thumb|right|Grave of Ivo Lapenna (1909-1987) in Rødovre Kirkegård in Copenhagen.

Lapenna was highly regarded as an orator in Esperanto, authored a number of books, and was the driving force behind the 1954 Montevideo Resolution in which UNESCO recognized Esperanto.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Schor |first=Esther H. |title=Bridge of words: Esperanto and the dream of a universal language |date=2016 |publisher=Metropolitan Books |isbn=978-0-8050-9079-6 |location=New York |pages=211}}</ref><ref name=":1">{{Cite web |title=Ulrich Lins: Ivo Lapenna meritplena akcelanto de Esperanto - china radio international |url=http://esperanto.cri.cn/641/2009/10/21/1s104372.htm |access-date=2024-09-11 |website=esperanto.cri.cn}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal |last=Alcalde |first=Javier |date=2017-10-05 |title=Bridge of Words: Esperanto and the Dream of a Universal Language, written by Esther Schor |url=https://brill.com/view/journals/ejjs/11/2/article-p210_210.xml |journal=European Journal of Jewish Studies |volume=11 |issue=2 |pages=210–213 |doi=10.1163/1872471X-11121001 |issn=1025-9996|url-access=subscription }}</ref> Lapenna was also counsel-advocate at the International Court of Justice at The Hague.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Okrent |first=Arika |date=Winter 2006 |title=A Visit to Esperantoland |journal=American Scholar |volume=75 |issue=1 |pages=93–108 |via=EBSCOhost}}</ref>

He died in Copenhagen in 1987 and is buried in Rødovre Kirkegård in Copenhagen.{{citation needed|date=September 2024}}

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==Works== * {{cite book|title=State and Law: Soviet and Yugoslav Theory|year=1964|publisher=University of London and Athlone Press}} * ''Ivo Lapenna, 'The Yugoslav Constitution of 1963', International and Comparative Law Quarterly 18, no. 2 (1969): 469–471.''

==References==

==External links== {{commons category}} *[http://www.ivolapenna.org/ Ivo Lapenna Foundation]

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