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Richard Zouch also '''Richard Zouche''' (c. 1590 – March 1 1661 ), English Jurist , was born at Anstey, Wiltshire , and educated at Winchester and afterwards at the University Of Oxford , where he became a fellow of New College in 1609 . He was admitted at Doctor's Commons in January 1618 , and was appointed Regius Professor Of Law at Oxford in 1620 . In 1625 he became principal of St Alban Hall and chancellor of the diocese of Oxford; in 1641 he was made judge of the High Court Of Admiralty . Under the Commonwealth , having submitted to the parliamentary visitors, he retained his university appointments, though not his judgeship; this last he resumed at the Restoration , dying soon afterwards at his apartments in Doctors' Commons , London, on March 1 1661 . PUBLICATIONS Legal works
In virtue of the last two he has the distinction of being one of the earliest systematic writers on international law. Poetry
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