Patricia Winifred Birnie (17 November 1926 - February 2013) was a British lawyer, and an internationally recognised expert on the law of the sea and the regulation of whaling.[1]
Personal life and education
editBirnie was born in Lytham St Annes, Lancashire, and attended Queen Mary School. She studied jurisprudence at St Hilda's College, Oxford and became a barrister in 1952. She later gained a PhD from the University of Edinburgh.[1] Her thesis title was "Development of the international regulation of whaling : its relation to the emerging law of conservation of marine mammals".[2]
She married Sandy (died 1982) in 1952; they had a son and two daughters.[1]
Career
editAfter working as a civil servant in the Treasury, Birnie moved to Scotland and taught law part-time at the universities of Aberdeen and Edinburgh before becoming a lecturer at Edinburgh. From 1983 to 1989 she taught at the London School of Economics.[1]
Birnie was the first director of the International Maritime Law Institute, established in Malta by the International Maritime Organization, from 1989 until her retirement in 1994.[1]
Selected publications
edit- Birnie, Patricia; Boyle, Alan (1992). International Law and the Environment. Oxford UP. ISBN 9780198762829.
- 4th edition published as Boyle, Alan; Redgwell, Catherine (2019). Birnie, Boyle, and Redgwell's International Law and the Environment. Oxford UP. ISBN 9780199594016.
- Birnie, Patricia (1985). International regulation of whaling : from conservation of whaling to conservation of whales and regulation of whale-watching (2 volumes). Oceana. ISBN 9780379206029. Based on her PhD thesis
References
edit- ^ a b c d e Boyle, Alan (14 May 2013). "Patricia Birnie obituary". The Guardian.
- ^ "Catalogue record for "Development of the international regulation of whaling...""". Edinburgh University Library. Retrieved 4 September 2018.
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