Sir John George Woodroffe, who mostly published pseudonymously as Arthur Avalon, was a jurist and pioneering Orientalist, specializing in Sanskrit and Hindu philosophy. He was a Fellow of the Calcutta University and appointed Tagore Law Professor. He also served as Standing Counsel to the Government of India where he later was raised to the High Court Bench, eventually officiating as Chief Justice for seven years until retiring to England where he was Reader in Indian Law to the University of Oxford. For his work as an Orientalist, see Arthur Avalon .