__NOTOC__ James Leslie Brierly (9 September 188120 December 1955) was an English scholar of

international law International law (also known as public international law and the law of nations) is the set of rules, norms, and standards generally recognized as binding between states. It establishes normative guidelines and a common conceptual framework for ...

. James Leslie Brierly was born on 9 September 1881 in

Huddersfield Huddersfield is a market town in the Kirklees district in West Yorkshire, England. It is the administrative centre and largest settlement in the Kirklees district. The town is in the foothills of the Pennines. The River Holme's confluence into ...

to Emily Sykes and Sydney Herbert Brierly. Brierly taught at the

University of Manchester , mottoeng = Knowledge, Wisdom, Humanity , established = 2004 – University of Manchester Predecessor institutions: 1956 – UMIST (as university college; university 1994) 1904 – Victoria University of Manchester 1880 – Victoria Univ ...

from 1920 and at the

University of Oxford , mottoeng = The Lord is my light , established = , endowment = £6.1 billion (including colleges) (2019) , budget = £2.145 billion (2019–20) , chancellor ...

from 1922 to 1947. He died on 20 December 1955 at his home in

Headington Headington is an eastern suburb of Oxford, England. It is at the top of Headington Hill overlooking the city in the Thames valley below, and bordering Marston to the north-west, Cowley to the south, and Barton and Risinghurst to the east. Th ...

Publications

* ''The Law of Nations'' (1928; 2d edition, 1936; 3d edition, 1942; 4th edition, 1949; 5th edition, 1955; 6th edition, 1963) * ''The Outlook for International Law'' (1944) * ''The Covenant and the Charter'' (1947)

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