26 Facts About Ian Brownlie

Ian Brownlie was Chichele Professor of Public International Law from 1980 to 1999.

Ian Brownlie was evacuated during the Second World War to Heswell, near Wirral, going a year without any formal education after the local school was bombed.

Ian Brownlie then attended Hertford College, Oxford as a Gibbs Scholar in 1952 and received a first-class BA in law in 1953.

Ian Brownlie was the Vinerian Scholar with the highest marks on the BCL.

Ian Brownlie was a Humanitarian Trust Student at King's College, Cambridge in 1955 where he studied public international law.

Ian Brownlie completed his DPhil at Oxford in 1961 under the supervision of Humphrey Waldock, his thesis being later published in 1963 as International Law and the Use of Force by States.

Ian Brownlie received the higher doctorate DCL from Oxford in 1976.

Ian Brownlie was called to the Bar by Gray's Inn in 1958; he began practice some years later in 1967 at 2 Crown Office Row.

Ian Brownlie was a tenant at Blackstone Chambers from 1983 until his death on 3 January 2010.

Ian Brownlie was a member of the Communist Party of Great Britain until the Soviet Union's invasion of Czechoslovakia in 1968.

Ian Brownlie began his academic career at the University of Nottingham as a lecturer from 1957 to 1963.

Ian Brownlie was a fellow and tutor in law at Wadham College, Oxford from 1963 to 1976 and a University of Oxford lecturer from 1964 to 1976.

Ian Brownlie was appointed professor of international law at the London School of Economics between 1976 and 1980.

Ian Brownlie was reader of public international law at the Inns of Court School of law from 1973 to 1976.

Ian Brownlie was director of studies at the International Law Association from 1982 to 1991.

Ian Brownlie was lecturer at The Hague Academy of International Law in 1979 and 1995.

Ian Brownlie retired from Oxford in 1999, upon reaching the statutory mandated retirement age.

Ian Brownlie served as an advisor to United States President Jimmy Carter during the 1979 Iranian Hostage Crisis.

Ian Brownlie argued several important cases before the European Court of Human Rights, including Cyprus v Turkey.

Ian Brownlie represented Amnesty International at the extradition trial of Chilean coup-leader Augusto Pinochet before the English courts in 1999.

Ian Brownlie was a member of the United Nations' International Law Commission from 1997 until his resignation in 2008.

Ian Brownlie was editor of The British Yearbook of International Law from 1974 to 1999.

Ian Brownlie was a Fellow of the British Academy and his memberships included the International Law Association and the Institut de Droit International.

In 1957, Ian Brownlie married Jocelyn Gale with whom he had one son and two daughters; the marriage was dissolved in 1975.

Ian Brownlie died in a car accident in Cairo on 3 January 2010; his wife and daughter were in the car, his wife breaking ribs and his daughter Rebecca was killed alongside him.

Several of Ian Brownlie's published works are considered standard texts in their fields:.