Arnold McNair, 1st Baron McNair

Arnold Duncan McNair, 1st Baron McNair CBE Kt KC FBA (born March  4, 1885 in London , †  May 22, 1975 in Cambridge ) was a British lawyer and from 1935 to 1937 Whewell Professor of International Law at the University of Cambridge . From 1946 to 1955 he worked as a judge at the International Court of Justice , including from 1952 to 1955 as president of the court. From 1959 to 1965 he served as President of the European Court of Human Rights .

Life

Arnold Duncan McNair was born in London in 1885 and studied law at Gonville and Caius College at the University of Cambridge until 1909 , where he then taught himself. After a temporary stint as a solicitor in his native London and as a lecturer in international law at the London School of Economics , he returned in 1912 as a fellow and later as a senior tutor at Gonville and Caius College. He received his doctorate in Cambridge in 1925 and was appointed to the Whewell Chair in international law ten years later . However, he gave up this position in 1937 to become Vice Chancellor of the University of Liverpool . In 1945 he went back to Cambridge and became Professor of Comparative Law there .

After the founding of the International Court of Justice (ICJ) in The Hague , he was elected judge at the ICJ in 1946, where he worked until 1955, including from 1952 to 1955 as president of the court. As in Cambridge, his successor at the IGH was his student Hersch Lauterpacht . From 1959 to 1965 he was the first President of the newly created European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg .

Arnold Duncan McNair was married from 1912 and had a son and three daughters. He died in Cambridge in 1975 .

Awards

Arnold Duncan McNair in 1918 as Commander (CBE) in the Order of the British Empire was added and in 1943 as a Knight Bachelor for beaten Knight and King's Counsel appointed. In 1939 he was accepted as a Fellow at the British Academy , of which he was Vice President from 1955 to 1956. He was also raised to hereditary nobility in 1955 as Baron McNair , of Gleniffer in the County of Renfrew, and was made an honorary member of the American Society for International Law in 1954, and was awarded the Manley O. Hudson Medal in 1959 , the highest Honoring society.

Works (selection)

• The Law of the Air. London 1932, 1953, 1964
• Roman Law & Common Law: a Comparison in outline. Cambridge 1952
• The Development of International Justice. New York 1954
• The Law of Treaties. Oxford 1961
• Lord McNair, Selected Papers and Bibliography. Leiden and New York 1974

literature

• McNair, Arnold Duncan, first Baron McNair. In: Henry Colin Gray Matthew, Brian Howard Harrison: Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Volume 35. Oxford University Press, Oxford 2004, ISBN 0-19-861385-7 , p. 930
• Robert A. Friedlander: McNair, Arnold Duncan. In: Warren F. Kuehl (Ed.): Biographical Dictionary of Internationalists. Greenwood Press, Westport 1983, ISBN 0-31-322129-4 , pp. 492/493
• Manfred Lachs : The Teacher in International Law: Teachings and Teaching. Martinus Nijhoff Publishers, The Hague 1982, ISBN 90-247-2566-6 , pp. 104-106
• Arnold Duncan McNair. In: Arthur Eyffinger, Arthur Witteveen, Mohammed Bedjaoui : La Cour internationale de Justice 1946–1996. Martinus Nijhoff Publishers, The Hague and London 1999, ISBN 9-04-110468-2 , p. 306
• Emlyn CS Wade: Arnold Duncan McNair, 1885-1975 . In: Proceedings of the British Academy . tape 62 , 1977, pp. 507-521 ( thebritishacademy.ac.uk [PDF]).

predecessor	Office	successor
New title created	Baron McNair 1955-1975	Clement McNair