James Leslie Brierly Explained

James Leslie Brierly (9 September 188120 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 University of Manchester from 1920, Chichele Professor of International Law and Diplomacy at the University of Oxford from 1922 to 1947,^[2] and the first Montague Burton Professor of International Relations at the University of Edinburgh from 1948 to 1951.^{[1] [3]}

He died on 20 December 1955 at his home in Headington.^[1]

Publications

• The Law of Nations (1928;^[4] 2d edition, 1936;^[5] 3d edition, 1942;^[6] 4th edition, 1949;^[7] 5th edition, 1955;^[8] 6th edition, 1963^[9])
• The Outlook for International Law (1944)^[10]
• The Covenant and the Charter (1947)^[11]

Works cited

• Book: Clapham . Andrew . James Brierly, The Law of Nations: An Introduction to the International Law of Peace, 1928 . 2020-11-04 . British Contributions to International Law, 1915–2015 . 27–49 . Barrett . Jill . . 10.1163/9789004386242_003 . 978-90-04-38624-2 . 240604316 . Gauci . Jean-Pierre . http://repository.graduateinstitute.ch/record/299427 .

Further reading

• Landauer . Carl . February 1993 . J. L. Brierly and the Modernization of International Law . Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law . 25 . 5 . 881–918 . subscription . .

Notes and References

1. Waldock . Humphrey . Humphrey Waldock . Brierly, James Leslie . Oxford Dictionary of National Biography . Oxford Dictionary of National Biography . 2004 . Matthew . H. C. G. . Harrison . Brian . 0-19-861411-X . 54778415 . 10.1093/ref:odnb/32069 . 7 . .
2. Book: Brierly, James Leslie . Encyclopaedic Dictionary of International Law . https://www.oxfordreference.com/view/10.1093/acref/9780195389777.001.0001/acref-9780195389777-e-271 . 2009 . . 10.1093/acref/9780195389777.001.0001 . Grant . John P. . Barker . J. Craig . 978-0-19-973854-0 . 3d . 462162611.
3. General Notes . . 28 October 1955 . 103 . 4963 . 882–889 . 41364780.
4. Wilson . Robert R. . 1929 . Review of The Law of Nations . . 23 . 2 . 478–479 . 10.2307/2189889 . 2189889 . 0002-9300.
5. Kunz . Josef L. . 1937 . Review of The Law of Nations . Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science . 191 . 261–262 . 10.1177/000271623719100175 . 1019927 . 144486758 . 0002-7162.
6. L. . K. . 1944 . Review of The Law of Nations . . 8 . 3 . 340 . 0008-1973 . 4503485 .
7. Wortley . B. A. . 1950 . Review of The Law of Nations . Journal of Comparative Legislation and International Law . 32 . 103–105 . 754383 . 1479-5949.
8. Johnson . D. H. N. . 1956 . Review of The Law of Nations; The Development of International Justice . . 19 . 1 . 106–107 . 1092171 . 0026-7961.
9. Marsh . Norman S. . 1963 . Review of The Law of Nations . . 12 . 3 . 1049–1050 . 10.1093/iclqaj/12.3.1049 . 756305 . 0020-5893.
10. White . Allen Hunter . 1946 . Review of The Outlook for International Law . . 94 . 2 . 259–261 . 10.2307/3309516 . 3309516 . 153441549 . 0041-9907.
11. Wight . Martin . 1947 . Review of The Covenant and the Charter . . 23 . 3 . 381–382 . 10.2307/3017242 . 3017242 . 0020-5850.