Sir Ian Brownlie, CBE, QC, FBA (19 September 1932, Liverpool – 3 January 2010, Cairo)[1] was an English barrister and academic, specialising in international law.
He was evacuated during the Second World War to Heswell, near Wirral, going a year without any formal education after the local school was bombed.
He then attended Hertford College, Oxford as a Gibbs Scholar in 1952 and received a first-class BA in law in 1953.
[4] He was a Humanitarian Trust Student at King's College, Cambridge in 1955 where he studied public international law.
He completed his DPhil at Oxford in 1961 under the supervision of Humphrey Waldock, his thesis being later published in 1963 as International Law and the Use of Force by States.
[1] He was called to the Bar by Gray's Inn in 1958; he began practice some years later in 1967 at 2 Crown Office Row.
He also argued several important cases before the European Court of Human Rights, including Cyprus v. Turkey.
[3] He also represented Amnesty International at the extradition trial of Chilean coup-leader Augusto Pinochet before the English courts in 1999.