James Leslie Brierly (9 September 1881 – 20 December 1955) was an English scholar of international law.
James Leslie Brierly was born on 9 September 1881 in Huddersfield to Emily Sykes and Sydney Herbert Brierly.
[1] Brierly was a professor of law at the University of Manchester from 1920, Chichele Professor of International Law and Diplomacy at the University of Oxford from 1922 to 1947,[2][3] and the first Montague Burton Professor of International Relations at the University of Edinburgh from 1948 to 1951.
[1][4] He died on 20 December 1955 at his home in Headington.
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