Professor Philippe Joseph Sands

By Lesley Dingle and Daniel Bates

Professor Philippe Joseph Sands

• 1960 Born 17th October, London
• 1979–82 Corpus Christi, Cambridge, BA Law
• 1982–83 LLM
• 1983–84 Visiting Scholar, Harvard
• 1983 First publication – “The Legal Fallout from KAL 007”, Harvard Int Rev, 44-45
• 1984–88 Lauterpacht Centre, Research Fellow St Catharine’s College
• 1985 Bar, Middle Temple
• 1986 Chernobyl Incident 26th April & Conference in Washington DC
• 1988 First book – Chernobyl: Law & Communication, Grotius Publications
• 1988–92 Lecturer, King’s College London
• 1992 SOAS, Lecturer
• 1993 Married Natalia Schiffrin
• 1993 Greening International Law, Earthscan
• 1994 Principles of International Environmental Law, Manchester University Press, 4th Ed 2017 CUP
• 1995 Documents in EC Environmental Law 1995, Manchester University Press, 2nd Ed 2006 (with Paolo Galizzi), CUP
• 1996 SOAS, Reader
• 1999 SOAS, Professor
• 1999 The International Court of Justice & Nuclear Weapons (co-edited with Laurence Boisson de Chazournes), CUP
• 1999 Manual of International Courts & Tribunals (with Shany, Romano & Mackenzie), OUP
• 2000 Environmental Law, The Economy & Sustainable Development (co-edited with Richard Stewart & Richard Revesz), CUP
• 2002–present UCL, Professor and Director, Centre on International Courts & Tribunals
• 2003 QC
• 2003 From Nuremberg to the Hague (editor), CUP
• 2003 Justice for Crimes against Humanity (co-editor with Mark Lattimer), Hart
• 2005 Lawless World Making and Breaking Global Rules, Penguin
• 2008–15 Board of Tricycle Theatre, London
• 2008–19 Council Member, UCL
• 2008 Torture Team, Penguin
• 2009 Bencher
• 2009 Bowett’s Law of International Institutions (with Pierre Klein), 6th Ed, Sweet & Maxwell
• 2010 Selecting International Judges: Principle, Process and Politics (with Malleson, Mackenzie & Martin), OUP
• 2013–23 Member & President Board of PEN – International Writers’ Association
• 2015 First Honorary degree Lincoln University
• 2016 East West Street: On the origins of Genocide & Crimes against Humanity, Weidenfeld & Nicolson
• 2018 The Grey Zone, Hart
• 2018–24 Board Hay Festival of Arts & Literature
• 2020 FRSL – Fellow Royal Society of Literature
• 2020 Ratline: Loves, Lies, Justice, Weidenfeld & Nicolson
• 2021 GCSK. Grand Commander of the Order of the Star and Key of the Indian (Mauritius)
• 2022 Honorary degrees at Liege, Lund, Lyon
• 2022 Ratline: Exulted Life & Mysterious Death, Weidenfeld & Nicolson
• 2022 The Last Colony. A Tale of Exile, Justice & Britain’s Colonial Legacy, Weidenfeld & Nicolson
• 2023 Honorary Fellow British Academy
• 2023 City of Lions Then & Now, Pushkin Press
• 2025 38 Londres Street: On Impunity, Pinochet in London, A Nazi in Patagonia, Weidenfeld & Nicolson
• 2026 East West Street: Updated 10th Anniversary Edition, Weidenfeld & Nicolson