Sir ian brownlie biography
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Ian Brownlie
British barrister and professor (1932–2010)
Sir Ian Brownlie, CBE, QC, FBA (19 September 1932, Liverpool – 3 January 2010, Cairo)[1] was an English barrister and academic, specialising in international law.
Sir ian brownlie biography
He was Chichele Professor of Public International Law from 1980 to 1999.
Early life and education
Brownlie was born in Bootle, Liverpool; his father worked for an insurance company. He was evacuated during the Second World War to Heswell, near Wirral, going a year without any formal education after the local school was bombed.[2] He attended Alsop High School.
He then attended Hertford College, Oxford as a Gibbs Scholar in 1952 and received a first-classBA in law in 1953. Speaking of this time, C. H. S. Fifoot described Brownlie his "ablest student".[3] He was the Vinerian Scholar with the highest marks on the BCL.[4] He was a Humanitarian Trust Student at King's College, Cambridge in 1955 where he st