British/French lawyer, legal academic and author (born 1960)
Philippe Sands
KC
Born
(1960-10-17) 17 October 1960 (age 63)
Nationality
British and French
Education
University College School
Alma mater
Corpus Christi College, Cambridge
Occupation(s)
Barrister, author
Notable work
Lawless World: America and the Making and Breaking of Global Rules (2005)
Torture Team: Rumsfeld's Memo and the Betrayal of American Values (2008) East West Street: On the Origins of Genocide and Crimes against Humanity (2016)
The Last Colony: A Tale of Exile, Justice and Britain's Colonial Legacy (2022)
Philippe Joseph Sands, KC Hon FBA (born 17 October 1960) is a British and French writer and lawyer at 11 King's Bench Walk[1] and Professor of Laws and Director of the Centre on International Courts and Tribunals at University College London.[2] A specialist in international law, he appears as counsel and advocate before many international courts and tribunals, including the International Court of Justice, the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea, the European Court of Justice, the European Court of Human Rights and the International Criminal Court.
Sands serves on the panel of arbitrators at the International Centre for the Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID) and the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS).[3]
He is the author of seventeen books on international law, including Lawless World (2005) and Torture Team (2008). His book East West Street: On the Origins of Genocide and Crimes against Humanity (2016) has been awarded numerous prizes, including the 2016 Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction, and has been translated into 24 languages. His latest books are The Ratline: Love, Lies and Justice on the Trail of a Nazi Fugitive (2020) about Otto Wächter and The Last Colony: A Tale of Exile, Justice and Britain's Colonial Legacy (2022) about Chagos.[4]
Sands served as President of English PEN[5] from February 2018 to April 2023.
^"Prof. Philippe Sands". 11KBW. Retrieved 3 October 2022.
^"UCL Laws Centre for International Courts & Tribunals". University College London. Retrieved 27 March 2016.
^List of Arbitrators, Court of Arbitration for Sport; accessed 18 April 2016.
^Sands, Philippe (2022). The Last Colony: A Tale of Exile, Justice and Britain's Colonial Legacy. Orion Publishing. ISBN 9781474618137.
^Sharp, Robert (5 January 2018). "Philippe Sands QC appointed President of English PEN". English PEN.
Philippe Joseph Sands, KC Hon FBA (born 17 October 1960) is a British and French writer and lawyer at 11 King's Bench Walk and Professor of Laws and Director...
the Origins of Genocide and Crimes Against Humanity is a 2016 book by PhilippeSands that examines the lives of two Jewish lawyers, Hersch Lauterpacht and...
Exalted Life and Mysterious Death of a Nazi Fugitive is a 2020 book by PhilippeSands that examines Otto Wächter. The book has three "positive" reviews, ten...
War II), escape routes for Nazi fugitives The Ratline, a 2020 book by PhilippeSands Ratline, an ordeal practiced at the Virginia Military Institute This...
the Nuremberg Trials to the dawn of the International Criminal". In PhilippeSands (ed.). From Nuremberg to the Hague: the future of international criminal...
by Stop Ecocide International and chaired by British law professor PhilippeSands and Senegalese jurist Dior Fall Sow started drafting a proposed law...
and publisher André Schiffrin, and the sister in law of the lawyer PhilippeSands. She was married on October 29, 2004, to Nobel Prize-winning economist...
Gueniffey. Napoléon et De Gaulle. Deux héros français. Perrin. 2018 : PhilippeSands. Retour à Lemberg. Albin Michel. 2019 : Jean Birnbaum, La Religion des...
book by the British lawyer and author, PhilippeSands. It was published by Viking Adult in October 2005. Sands is a professor of international law at...
drama series John Sinclair – Demon Hunter. In 2016 Rintoul narrated PhilippeSands' East West Street – the Origins of "Genocide" and "Crimes Against Humanity"...
Street: On the Origins of 'Genocide' and 'Crimes Against Humanity', PhilippeSands, a professor of law at University College London, recounts the life...
proved that Blair was "lying" about whether war could have been averted. PhilippeSands said the report pulled its punches but marshalled the factual evidence...
Document Collection. Vol. I. ABC-CLIO. 2014. pp. 1301–1302. Sands, p.165 Sands, Philippe (27 May 2016). "69". East West Street: On the Origins of "Genocide"...
2007-08-08. "New Yorker Correspondent Jane Mayer and British Attorney PhilippeSands on Bush Administration Torture and How Obama Should Address It". Democracy...
Browning, "The Two Different Ways of Looking at Nazi Murder" (review of PhilippeSands, East West Street: On the Origins of "Genocide" and "Crimes Against...
countries. The President of English PEN is Margaret Busby, succeeding PhilippeSands in April 2023. The Director is Daniel Gorman. The Chair is Ruth Borthwick...
the Nuremberg Trials to the dawn of the International Criminal". In PhilippeSands (ed.). From Nuremberg to the Hague: the future of international criminal...
Lord Macdonald of River Glaven KC, Clare Montgomery KC, Tim Owen KC, PhilippeSands KC, Hugh Tomlinson KC, Professor Takis Tridimas, Ben Silverstone, Helen...
of the ACD Collection. See the discussion “Orwell and Empire”, with PhilippeSands, Kojo Koram and Douglas Kerr, at the Orwell Foundation's Orwell Festival...
the law firm Foley Hoag led by Paul Reichler, as well as Professors PhilippeSands of University College London and Payam Akhavan of McGill University...
International Crimes, Martinus Nijhoff Publishers, 1 Jan 1996, p. 371. PhilippeSands, Pierre Klein, D. W. Bowett. Bowett's Law of International Institutions...
5194/acp-12-11997-2012. Morris, Cindy E.; Kinkel, Linda L.; Xiao, Kun; Prior, Philippe; Sands, David C. (2007). "Surprising niche for the plant pathogen Pseudomonas...
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