Law Stories: On Literature and Global Justice, East West Street to 38 Londres Street and beyond

Philippe Sands was born in London in 1960 and studied Law at the University of Cambridge. His book East West Street was the winner of the Baillie Gifford Prize for Non Fiction 2016, the British Book Awards Non-fiction Book of the Year 2017 and 2018 Prix Montaigne He is also the author of Lawless World: America and the Making and Breaking of Global Rules, which inspired a stage play (Called to Account, Tricycle Theatre) and a television film (The Trial of Tony Blair, Channel 4). He writes regularly for the press and serves as a commentator for the BBC, CNN and other radio and television producers. His BBC Storyville film My Nazi Legacy: What Our Fathers Did premiered in April 2015 at the Tribecca Film Festival. Sands co-wrote a podcast of the same name for the BBC. Sands lectures around the world and has taught at New York University and been a visiting professor at the University of Toronto, the University of Melbourne, and the Université de Paris I (Sorbonne). He was appointed a Queen’s Counsel in 2003. The Ratline: Love, Lies and Justice on the Trail of a Nazi Fugitive, was published in 2020 and The Last Colony: A Tale of Exile, Justice and Britain's Colonial Legacy in 2022. His most recent book, 38 Londres Street: On Impunity, Pinochet in England and a Nazi in Patagonia was published in 2025. He is currently  Professor of Law at University College London and a barrister and arbitrator at 11 King's Bench Walk. He served as president of English PEN and is on the board of the Hay Festival of Arts and Literature.

Anjolie Singh (India) - Lawless World: America and the Making and Breaking of Global Rules
Anjolie Singh is lawyer with almost 25 years of experience before international courts and tribunals, including the International Court of Justice, the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea  and inter-state and mixed tribunals. She has advised and advocated in cases involving genocide and the use of force, maritime delimitations in South America, Europe, and Africa, as well as advised on range of issues from international humanitarian law to the practice and procedure of international courts and tribunals. Besides consulting with a variety of international organisations including UNHCR and UNICEF, and Médecins Sans Frontières’, Anjolie was also a Teaching Fellow in the LL.M programme at UCL Laws where she tutored and mentored graduate students.

Remi Reichold (France) - East West Street: On the Origins of ‘Genocide’ and ‘Crimes Against Humanity’
Remi is a barrister at 11KBW with extensive experience in public international law. He has represented more than a dozen States before the International Court of Justice, the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea and international arbitral tribunals. He was counsel for the Government of Mauritius from 2010 to 2025 in the three cases concerning the Chagos Archipelago (UNCLOS Annex VII arbitration, ICJ Advisory Opinion and ITLOS delimitation case) and a member of Mauritius’ delegation at the negotiations which culminated in the Mauritius/UK Agreement. As a researcher at the Centre for International Courts and Tribunals at University College London, Remi contributed to various academic projects and publications relating to human rights, international environmental law, torture, the legal implications of the war in Iraqq and international organisations.

Lea Main-Klingst (Germany) - The Ratline
Lea completed her LL.M. in Human Rights Law in 2016 and went on to work as legal and research assistant to Philippe Sands, supporting his work before international courts and tribunals. Since summer 2021, she works as a lawyer for an environmental legal charity on the intersection of human rights and environmental law.

Luis Viveros (Colombia) - The Last Colony: A Tale of Exile, Justice and Britain's Colonial Legacy
Luis Viveros is a lawyer with extensive experience in international human rights law and international humanitarian law. He has advised and advocated in over a hundred communications and cases before the Inter-American Commission of Human Rights and the Inter-American Court of Human Rights. His practice focuses on gross human rights violations in Latin-America and  the rights of victims of war crimes and crimes against humanity. Luis has also advised in contentious and advisory proceedings before a range of international courts in matters concerning climate change, the right of asylum and genocide. Luis is a member of the Centre for International Courts and Tribunals and Coordinator of the Public International Law Pro Bono Project at University College London. 

Monserrat Madariaga (Chile) - 38 Londres Street 
Monserrat Madariaga Gomez de Cuenca is a Chilean lawyer and researcher specialising in international environmental law, human rights, and climate justice. Her work sits at the intersection of law, policy, and advocacy, and she has supported developing countries and civil society organisations in international climate negotiations and in shaping domestic climate policy, including through her work as a legal advisor to the Alliance of Independent Latin America and the Caribbean (AILAC).

During her PhD at University College London (2020–2024), she worked closely with Professor Philippe Sands as a research assistant, contributing to fieldwork and legal research in Chile on human rights violations during the Pinochet dictatorship. She currently works at a London-based climate law NGO and remains affiliated with UCL as a guest lecturer.

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