He was educated at Leeds Grammar School and The Queen's College, Oxford, where he was Hastings Exhibitioner in Classics.
[1][2] In 1925 he was elected a Junior Research Fellow at Merton College, Oxford.
In 1948 he became the first Professor of Comparative Law, and moved from Merton to Brasenose College, Oxford.
[1] Lawson received honorary doctorates from Louvain, Paris, Ghent, Frankfurt, Glasgow and Lancaster.
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