Charles Henry Alexandrowicz

Charles Henry Alexandrowicz, born Karol Aleksandrowicz in Lviv in 1902 and dying in 1975, was a lawyer and scholar of international law. He studied law at Jagiellonian University, completing his doctorate there in 1926, practiced law in Poland before the Second World War and served in the Polish army. After escaping by way of Romania to London, he worked with the Polish government in exile and in 1945 became Director-General of the European Central Inland Transport Organization. He was called to the bar in 1948, became a British citizen in 1950, and went on to teach international law at the University of Madras from 1951 to 1961 and the University of Sydney from 1961 to 1967, with an emphasis on natural law traditions rather than Eurocentric approaches.