Ian Brownlie

Sir Ian Brownlie CBE , QC , FBA , (born September 19, 1932 in Liverpool , † January 3, 2010 in Cairo ) was a British legal scholar and international law expert .

Life

Brownlie was born in Liverpool in 1932 and attended Alsop High School in Walton, Liverpool. He then studied from 1950 to 1955 at Hertford College in Oxford and from 1955 to 1956 at King's College in Cambridge . He earned his bachelor's degree in 1953 and his doctorate in 1961. In 1958 he was admitted to the bar.

As part of his academic career, he taught as a lecturer from 1956 to 1957 at the University of Leeds , from 1957 to 1963 at the University of Nottingham . He was then a lecturer at Oxford University and Fellow and Wadham College until 1976 . In 1976 he was appointed Professor of International Law at the London School of Economics and Political Science , where he worked until 1980. He then moved to Oxford University, where he held the Chichele Chair in International Law from 1980 to 1999 . During this time he was a fellow at All Souls College . In addition, Brownlie was a visiting professor at the University of East Africa from 1968 to 1969 and at the University of Ghana in 1971 .

During the hostage situation in Tehran , he was an advisor to US President Jimmy Carter . He has also appeared as a lawyer before the International Court of Justice (ICJ) on several occasions , for example in the cases Nicaragua against the United States , Bosnia and Herzegovina against Serbia and Montenegro and Libya against the United Kingdom and against the United States . In one case, he acts as an ad hoc judge at the IGH after being nominated by Liechtenstein . He also pleaded several times before the European Court of Justice and the European Court of Human Rights . In 1999 he represented Amnesty International in the extradition proceedings for the Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet . Brownlie has also appeared as an arbitrator in numerous international arbitrations.

Since 1997 he has been a member of the International Law Commission . He was last elected here in 2006 for a further five-year term at the suggestion of the governments of the United Kingdom, Canada , New Zealand and India . On June 15, 2009, he was beaten by Queen Elizabeth II for his services to international law to the Knight Bachelor .

Ian Brownlie was married twice and has one son and two daughters. He died on January 3, 2010 in Cairo in a car accident in which one of his daughters was also killed and his second wife was injured.

Publications (selection)

Several of Brownlie's publications are considered standard works in their field.

• International Law and the Use of Force between States , Dissertation, University of Oxford, 1963
• Principles of Public International Law , 1966, ISBN 0-19-926194-6
• Basic Documents in International Law , 1967, ISBN 0-19-924942-3
• Basic Documents on Human Rights , 1971, ISBN 0-19-927983-7
• African Boundaries: A Legal and Diplomatic Encyclopedia , 1979, ISBN 0-903983-87-7
• System of the Law of Nations: State Responsibility , 1983, ISBN 0-19-825452-0

Awards

• 1977: Admission to the Institut de Droit international
• 1979: Fellow of the British Academy
• 1986: Order of Bernardo O'Higgins of the Republic of Chile
• 1993: Commander of the British Empire
• 1993: Commander's Cross of the Norwegian Order of Merit
• 2001: Honorary doctorate from the University of Padua
• 2004: Honorary membership of the American Society for International Law
• 2006: Wolfgang Friedmann Memorial Award for international law
• 2009: Honorary member of the Indian Society for International Law

literature

• Guy S. Goodwin-Gilland, Stefan Talmon : The Reality of International Law: Essays in Honor of Ian Brownlie . Oxford University Press, 1999, ISBN 0-19-826837-8 .

Web links

• Ian Brownlie on the Blackstone Chambers homepage ( Memento of March 27, 2010 in the Internet Archive ).
• Obituary on Telegraph.co.uk .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Archive link ( Memento of the original dated December 2, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Last accessed January 5, 2010.  
2. ↑ Archive link ( Memento of the original from March 28, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Last accessed January 5, 2010.