The Europaeum Academic Directory

Studied Architecture and Town Planning at the University of Technology, Munich. Government Building Surveyor (1967), Chief Research Engineer in Munich, concurrent with a lectureship in Regional Development at the University of Technology, Munich-Weihenstephan. Appointed to a C4 level chair in Urban Development and Settlement politics at Bonn University (1976), and became Director of the Institute for Town Planning, Land and Soil Management and Cultural Technology.  Former Vice-President of the German Higher Education Rectors Conference.

Fellow of All Souls 1964-2009, 1976-2009 in conjunction with a Special University Lectureship. Visiting Professor at Paris IV-Sorbonne (1981) and at the Collège de France (1995). Junior Proctor at Oxford University in 1972-3, then subsequently a long-serving member of some important university committees. Chaired a committee that reformed the Oxford history course in the 1980s, and helped to lead a movement to defend Oxford’s academic democracy in recent years. Fellow of the British Academy, the Royal Society of Literature, and the Royal Historical Society.

Had a long political, European and academic career. He was recently Minister of Economic Affairs and Minister of Agriculture. He was also a member of the Netherlands and European Parliaments. Earlier in his life, he served as Deputy Minister of European Affairs. With the European Union he served as EU- Ambassador to Japan and was subsequently DG for Environmental and Nuclear Safety. In academia he has held chairs at Groningen, Leiden and Tilburg Universities.

Archie Brown is Emeritus Professor of Politics at Oxford University and Emeritus Fellow of St Antony’s College, Oxford. He is a former Director of the Russian and East European Centre at St Antony's. After undergraduate and graduate studies at the London School of Economics and Political Science, he was a Lecturer in Politics at Glasgow University (1964-71) and has been at Oxford since 1971.

Professor Brownlie was a practicing barrister, a Member of the International Law Commission, Fellow of the British Academy since 1979, Chichele Professor of Public International Law (now Emeritus), and a fellow of All Souls College, Oxford from 1980 to 1999. He was the author of numerous works in addition to International Law and the Use of Force by States (1963), including Principles of Public International Law (first published in 1966, now in its fifth edition); State Responsibility (1983); and a General Course on International Law given at the Hague Academy of International Law in 1995. He also had a vast experience of international litigation, and acted as counsel in numerous cases before the International Court of Justice, including Lockerbie (Libyan Arab Jamahiriya v. United Kingdom) and Legality of Use of Force (Yugoslavia v. 10 NATO countries).

Educated at Harvard College (AB summa cum laude), and as a Rhodes Scholar at Corpus Christi College, Oxford (DPhil).  Taught at the Universities of Glasgow and Essex before returning to Oxford to become Director of the Philosophy Project at the Institute for Chinese Studies and a member of the Faculty of Philosophy. Chairman of the British Committee of the Philosophy Summer School in China and a member of the Executive Committee of the Royal Institute of Philosophy.