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Profile
Philippe Sands joined the Faculty in January 2002. He is Professor of Law and
Director of the Centre on International Courts and Tribunals in the Faculty,
and a key member of staff in the Centre for Law and the Environment. His teaching
areas include public international law, the settlement of international disputes
(including arbitration), and environmental and natural resources law.
Philippe is a regular commentator on the BBC and CNN and writes frequently for leading newspapers. He is frequently invited to lecture around the world, and in recent years has been a Visiting Professor at the University of Toronto (2005), the University of Melbourne (2005) and the Universite de Paris I (Sorbonne) (2006, 2007). He has previously held academic positions at the University of London's School of Oriental and African Studies, Kings College London and , University of Cambridge and was a Global Professor of Law at New York University from 1995-2003. He was co-founder of FIELD (Foundation for International Environmental Law and Development), and established the programmes on Climate Change and Sustainable Development. He is a member of the Advisory Boards of the European Journal of International Law and Review of European Community and International Environmental Law (Blackwell Press). In 2007 he served as a judge for the Guardian First Book Prize award.
As a practicing barrister he has extensive experience litigating cases before the International Court of Justice, the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea, the International Center for the Settlement of Investment Disputes, and the European Court of Justice. He frequently advises governments, international organisations, NGOs and the private sector on aspects of international law. In 2003 he was appointed a Queen's Counsel. He has been appointed to lists of arbitrators maintained by ICSID and the PCA.
Research
Professor Sands directs the Project on International Courts
and Tribunals (www.pict-pcti.org).
The project has the following aims and objectives:
- to facilitate access to and transparency in the work of international courts
and tribunals;
- to enhance the effectiveness of international courts and tribunals;
- to promote greater knowledge about international courts and tribunals; and
- to promote international peace through international justice and rule of
law.
The project is doing research into policy, legal and operational, issues in the administration of international justice in the twenty-first century, such as the composition and independence of the international bench. In 2006 the Centre for International Courts and Tribunals was awarded an AHRC grant of £250,000 to examine the appointment of international judges.
Publications
- Torture Team: Cruelty, Deception and the Compromise of Law (Penguin, May 2008) [See: www.tortureteam.com]
- Lawless World: America and the Making and Breaking of Global Rules (Penguin, 2005) (translated into Arabic (2006) and Farsi (2007), Chinese translation forthcoming(2008))..
- Documents in International Environmental Law, Cambridge University Press, 2004 (edited with Paolo Galizzi)
- From Nuremberg to The Hague: The Future of International Criminal Justice, Cambridge University Press, 2003 (editor)
- Principles of International Environmental Law, Second Edition, Cambridge University Press, 2003
- Justice for Crimes Against Humanity, Hart Publishing, 2003 (edited with Mark Lattimer)
- Bowett's Law of International Institutions, Sweet & Maxwell, 5th edition, 2001 (co-author with Pierre Klein, Universite Libre de Bruxelles)
- Environmental Law, The Economy and Sustainable Development (co-edited with Richard Stewart and Richard Revesz) Cambridge University Press, 2000
- The Manual of International Courts and Tribunals (with Shany and Mackenzie), Butterworths, 1999
- The International Court of Justice and Nuclear Weapons (collection of essays edited with Laurence Boisson de Chazournes, Cambridge University Press, 1999)
- Principles of International Environmental Law, Manchester University Press, 1995 (Vols. I, II and III); 2nd edition to be published by Cambridge University Press in 2003.
- Greening International Law (editor), Earthscan, 1993
- Chernobyl: Law and Communication, 340 pp. (Grotius Publications/Cambridge University Press) 1988.
- Plus articles on international, environmental and natural resources law.
Links
- Hay Festival of Literature & Arts interview with Mr Nick Clegg, the Deputy Prime minister,
- Hay Festival of Literature & Arts interview with Maurice Gourdault-Montagne, The French Ambassador to London about ambassadorial life and his role as senior foreign policy adviser to President Chirac in the run-up to the Iraq war considered the French perspective in the run up to the Iraq War.
- Hay Festival of Literature & Arts interview with Jeremy Greenstock , The former British Ambassador to the UN and UK representative to Iraq who gave evidence to the Chilcot Inquiry on WMDs.
- Hay Festival of Literature & Arts interview with Judge Tom Buergenthal
- Guardian Comment is Free, Weblog, at http://commentisfree.guardian.co.uk/philippe_sands/
- Op-Ed, San Francisco Chronicle, 13 November 2005 (Policymakers on torture take note -- remember Pinochet), at http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2005/11/13/INGUPFLGKJ1.DTL
- Debate with Professor John Yoo, World Affairs Council of Northern California, 31 October 2005 (America is Undermining Global Legal Order ... Or Not?), at http://wacsf.vportal.net/?fileid=4131
Public Lecture
JUSTICE International Rule of Law Lecture
Professor Philippe Sands QC, of University College, London and Matrix
Chambers, "Extraordinary Rendition: complicity and its consequences"
Monday 15 May 2006.
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Current Teaching
Graduate
Law
and Policy of International Courts & Tribunals
International Environmental
Law
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