2024-25 UCL Europe Lecture: Philippe Sands on 38 Londres Street

Join us for a conversation with international lawyer, bestselling author, and Professor of Law at UCL, Philippe Sands KC, on his most recent book, 38 Londres Street (Hachette Collections, 2025).
 
It is the latest in a series of books that blend personal memoir, historical detective work and gripping courtroom drama to probe the legacies of Nazism – and document legal efforts to bring perpetrators to account. Following East West Street (2016) and The Ratline (2020), 38 Londres Street takes us on a journey exploring the links between a Nazi SS officer, Walther Rauff, and Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet – and with it, the entanglement of dictatorship in Chile, Nazism, European colonial history, and our modern times.

2024-25 UCL Europe Lecture

• Philippe Sands KC, Professor of Public Understanding of Law, UCL Laws

In Conversation with

• Uta Staiger, Associate Professor of European Studies and Director of the UCL European Institute
• Kimberley Trapp, Professor of Public International Law, UCL Laws

About the speaker

Philippe Sands KC is Professor of Public Understanding of Law at UCL, visiting professor at Harvard Law School and a practising barrister at 11 KBW. He has been involved in many significant international cases in recent years, including Pinochet, Congo, Yugoslavia, Rwanda, Iraq, Guantanamo, Chagos and the Rohingya. He has served as President of English PEN and is a member of the board of the Hay Festival.
 
The UCL Europe Lecture, this year co-hosted with the UCL Faculty of Laws, is convened annually by the UCL European Institute, the university’s hub for research, engagement and teaching on Europe. Every Academic Year, it brings a leading scholar, writer, policymaker, or public intellectual working on Europe to UCL to inform, challenge, and inspire discussion with the academic community – and the wider public.

This event is in-person only.

Schedule

17:30 Registration and theatre opens
18:00 Conversation begins
18:45 Q&A
19:00 Events ends

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