Sir gerald fitzmaurice biography definition

He was called to the bar at Gray's Inn in and worked as a legal advisor to the Foreign Service in He was seconded to the Ministry of Economic Warfare as a legal advisor from to , where he was tasked developing an Allied legal network to restrict Germany's seaborne trade.

Sir Gerald Gray Fitzmaurice GCMG QC (24 October – 7 September ) was an English barrister and judge.

He was part of the in and again from to Fitzmaurice was a member of the International Law Commission of the UN between and and contributed to the four Geneva Convention of the Law of the Sea adopted in He was the Special Rapporteur on the law of treaties. He took silk in From to , he served president of the Grotius Society. Sir Gerald Fitzmaurice's photo gallery.

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Far from being a narrow specialist, Gerald Fitzmaurice took great inter-est in many facets of life: in literature, poetry and the theatre.

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