Charles Henry Alexandrowicz

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Charles Henry Alexandrowicz (13 October 1902 – 26 September 1975), born Karol Aleksandrowicz, was a lawyer and scholar of international law.

Born in Lviv, he attended primary school at the Schottengymnasium in Vienna and studied law at Jagiellonian University, graduating with a doctorate in 1926.[1]

Following World War II, he moved to London and was called to the bar of Lincoln's Inn in 1948.[1] He became a British citizen in 1950.[1]

From London he moved to India in 1951 to teach at the University of Madras, publishing on Indian constitutional law. He spent a decade at the university and then moved to the University of Sydney in 1961. He retired from academic life in 1967.[2]

Alexandrowicz's scholarship emphasises a tradition of international law rooted in the work of natural law theorists such as Grotius—a tradition he saw as universalist—as opposed to later European theorists, who embraced Eurocentric views of the law of nations.[3]

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  1. ^ Jump up to: a b c Armitage, David; Pitts, Jennifer (11 October 2018). "Alexandrowicz, Charles Henry". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/111220. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
  2. ^ Steiner, W. A. (1976). "Charles Henry Alexandrowicz 1902–1975". The British Yearbook of International Law. 47 (1): 269–271. doi:10.1093/bybil/47.1.269. ISSN 0068-2691.
  3. ^ Armitage & Pitts 2017, p. 18.

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