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Harry Lawson (legal scholar)

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In 1933, Lawson married Elspeth Webster. Together they had four children; three daughters and a son. After his retirement from Oxford, he moved to Eden Park Road,
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in Classics. From 1916 to 1918 he served in an anti-aircraft regiment. After the war, he read Modern History instead, taking a
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in Roman Law in 1931. Between 1943 and 1945 he was a temporary Principal in the
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in 1921. The following year he took another First in Jurisprudence, and was
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This United Kingdom law-related biographical article is a
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Frederick Henry Lawson
FBA
Professor of Comparative Law
University of Oxford
Leeds
Leeds Grammar School
The Queen's College, Oxford
Exhibitioner
First
called to the bar
Gray's Inn
Junior Research Fellow
Merton College, Oxford
All Souls
Reader
Ministry of Supply
DCL
Professor of Comparative Law
Brasenose College, Oxford
Lancaster University
Louvain
Paris
Ghent
Frankfurt
Glasgow
Lancaster
Fellow of the British Academy
Lancaster, Lancashire
Lancaster University

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