An English international lawyer of Polish birth, Sir Hersch Lauterpacht [1897-1960] was Whewell Professor of International Law at Cambridge and a member of the Institute of International Law and the British Academy. He also served as a judge of the International Court of Justice and was a Bencher of Gray's Inn. His other noted works are Private Law Sources and Analogies of International Law (1927) and The Function of Law in the International Community (1933).