Ian Brownlie

Ian Brownlie, CBE, QC, FBA, is a British jurist, specialising in international law. He was called to the Bar in 1958 (Gray's Inn).

During his academic career he taught at the University of Leeds, the University of Nottingham, and Wadham College, Oxford. He was a professor of international law at the London School of Economics between 1976 and 1980. From 1980 to 1999 he was Chichele Professor of Public International Law at the University of Oxford and a Distinguished Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford.

He served as an advisor to U.S. President Jimmy Carter during the 1979 Iranian Hostage Crisis. The cases in which he has argued before the International Court of Justice include "Nicaragua v. United States, Nauru v. Australia, Bosnia and Herzegovina v. Serbia and Montenegro, and Libya v. United Kingdom and v. United States;" he has also argued several important cases before the European Court of Human Rights, including "Cyprus v. Turkey." He also represented Amnesty International at the extradition trial of Chilean coup-leader Augusto Pinochet before the English courts in 1999. Since 1997 he has been a member of the United Nations' International Law Commission.

He is a Fellow of the British Academy and his memberships include the International Law Association and the Institut de Droit International. In 2006 he was awarded the Wolfgang Friedmann Memorial Award for international law.

Publications

Several of Brownlie's published works are considered standard texts in their fields:
*"International Law and the Use of Force between States (Oxford doctoral thesis, 1963)
*"Principles of Public International Law" (1966)
*"Basic Documents in International Law" (1967)
*"Basic Documents on Human Rights" (1971)
*"African Boundaries: A Legal and Diplomatic Encyclopedia" (1979)
*"System of the Law of Nations: State Responsibility" (1983)