Sir James Edmund Sandford Fawcett DSC QC (16 April 1913 – 24 June 1991) was a British barrister.

[2] After the outbreak of the Second World War, he was commissioned in the Royal Navy Volunteer Reserve in 1940,[4] and served as the torpedo officer of a destroyer.

[1] He was a member of the UK's delegation to the United Nations in New York from 1948 to 1950, and also worked in the British Embassy in Washington, D.C.[1] He assisted with the writing of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.

[2] He returned to private practice as a barrister in 1950, at the chambers led by John Galway Foster at 2 Hare Court.

[2] He was general counsel to the International Monetary Fund from 1955 to 1960, and he was a member of the European Commission of Human Rights from 1962 to 1984, serving as its president from 1972 to 1982.