Sir Erskine Holland

Sir Erskine Holland (born July 17, 1835, Brighton, Sussex, Eng.—died May 24, 1926, Oxford) was an English legal writer and teacher of international law whose outstanding work, Elements of Jurisprudence, underwent 13 editions from 1880 to 1924. Educated at Brighton College and at Balliol and Magdalen colleges, Oxford, Holland was called to the bar in 1863, and from 1874 to 1910 he was professor of international law and diplomacy at Oxford. In 1885 he helped...