James Leslie Brierly
James Leslie Brierly (9 September 1881 – 20 December 1955) was an English scholar of international law.
James Leslie Brierly was born on 9 September 1881 in Huddersfield to Emily Sykes and Sydney Herbert Brierly.[1]
Brierly was a professor of law at the
Chichele Professor of International Law and Diplomacy at the University of Oxford from 1922 to 1947,[2][3] and the first Montague Burton Professor of International Relations at the University of Edinburgh from 1948 to 1951.[1][4]
He died on 20 December 1955 at his home in Headington.[1]
Publications
- The Law of Nations (1928;[5] 2d edition, 1936;[6] 3d edition, 1942;[7] 4th edition, 1949;[8] 5th edition, 1955;[9] 6th edition, 1963[10])
- The Outlook for International Law (1944)[11]
- The Covenant and the Charter (1947)[12]
Citations
Works cited
- Clapham, Andrew (4 November 2020). "James Brierly, The Law of Nations: An Introduction to the International Law of Peace, 1928". In Barrett, Jill; Gauci, Jean-Pierre (eds.). British Contributions to International Law, 1915–2015. S2CID 240604316.
Further reading
- Landauer, Carl (February 1993). "J. L. Brierly and the Modernization of International Law". Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law. 25 (5): 881–918 – via HeinOnline.
External links
Works by or about James Leslie Brierly at Wikisource
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