E. C. S. Wade

Emlyn Capel Stewart Wade QC FBA (31 August 1895 – 28 April 1978) was a British constitutional law scholar.

During the First World War he served with the Royal Garrison Artillery with the British Salonika Force.

In 1920 he was elected a scholar of Gonville and Caius College, and won the Whewell Scholarship in International Law in 1922.

[1] Wade practised at the bar in London and Newscastle, and lectured in Law Armstrong College, Durham (now Newcastle University), becoming its Vice-Principal in 1924 and Principal in 1926.

From November 1948 to January 1949 he was a member of the British delegation of the Committee for the Study of European Unity, convened by the Brussels Treaty Organisation to draw up the blueprint of the future Council of Europe.