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

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. James Leslie Brierly was born on 9 September 1881 in

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

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from 1920 and at the

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

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* ''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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