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 1932 in Liverpool and attended Alsop High School in Walton, Liverpool. Subsequently, he studied from 1950 to 1955 at Hertford College, Oxford, from 1955 to 1956 at King's College, 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, 1957-1963 at the University of Nottingham. Subsequently, he was until 1976 a lecturer at the University of Oxford and Fellow and at Wadham College. 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 joined the University of Oxford, where he held the Chichele Chair of International Law 1980-1999. During this time he was a Fellow of All Souls College. In addition, Brownlie was 1968-1969 Guest lecturer at the University of East Africa and 1971 at the University of Ghana.
During the hostage situation in Tehran, he was an advisor to U.S. President Jimmy Carter. He also appeared several times before the International Court of Justice ( ICJ) as a lawyer, as for example in the cases of Nicaragua against United States, Bosnia and Herzegovina against Serbia and Montenegro and Libya v. United Kingdom and to the United States. In one case, it acts on the ICJ after nomination by Liechtenstein as an ad hoc judge. Even before the European Court and the European Court of Human Rights, he pleaded repeatedly. In 1999 he represented Amnesty International in extradition proceedings to the Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet. Brownlie has also entered into numerous international arbitrations as arbitrator in appearance.
Since 1997 he was a member of the International Law Commission. Most recently, he was elected here in 2006 for a further period of five years proposed by the governments of the United Kingdom, Canada, New Zealand and India. On 15 June 2009 he was defeated by Queen Elizabeth II for his services to the international law knighted.
Ian Brownlie was twice married and the father of one son and two daughters. He died on January 3, 2010 in Cairo in a car accident in which even one of his daughters was killed and his second wife was injured.
Publications (selection )
Several of Brown Lies publications regarded as standard works in their field.
- International Law and the Use of Force in between States, PhD thesis, 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
- 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