“Nazis and Nazi sympathizers in Latin America after 1945” 202416:285-287 Brill Co-authors: Sands P, Erker L (Editor), Rein R (Editor)
“Constitution of the people and how to achieve it” 7:11-+ 2021 (41 pages)
“Shabtai Rosenne A Personal Aspect” Law of Strangers 2019 249-254
“Of Courts and Competition: Dispute Settlement under Part XV of UNCLOS : “Essays in honour of Budislav Vukas Contemporary Developments in International Law: 2016 789-798 (10 pages) Martinus Nijhoff
"I Believe in the Power of Human Beings to be Agents of Change" An Interview with Kamal Hossain. international law and developing countries: essays in honour of Kamal Hossain 2014 1-31
“Unity and Diversity of International Law: essays in honour of Professor Pierre-Marie Dupuy” 2014 891-907
“Treaty Interpretation and the Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties: 30 years on” 2010 1:39-58
“Appointing judges in an age of judicial power: critical perspectives from around the world” 2006 213-237
“ITLOS and practitioners: an international lawyer's perspective” Current Marine Environmental Issues and ITLOS 2002 141-158
“Who Governs a Sustainable World? The Role of International Courts and Tribunals” 2002 Managing The Earth: The Linacre Lectures 2001
‘La société civile internationale et la mise en oeuvre du droit international: le droit international, le praticien et les acteurs non étatiques’, in H. Gherari & S. Szurek, L’émergence de la société civile internationale: vers la privatisation du droit international? 2003, 85-102
‘ITLOS and practitioners: an international lawyer’s perspective’ in M. Nordquist & J. Norton Moore (eds), Current Marine Environmental Issues and ITLOS 2002, 141-158
“Who Governs a Sustainable World? The Role of International Courts and Tribunals”, in J. C. Briden and T.E. Downing, Managing the Earth: The Linacre Lectures 2001. 2002
“After Pinochet: the Proper Relationship between National and International Courts”, Gowlland and Boisson de Chazournes (eds), Liber Amicorum for Prof. Georges Abi-Saab. Martinus Nijkhoff, 2001, 699-716
“Environmental Protection in the 21st Century: Sustainable Development and International Law”, in Revesz, Stewart and Sands (eds) Environmental Law, The Economy and Sustainable Development 2000, 369-409
“International Law, the Practitioner and “Non-State Actors””, in M. Anderson (ed), The International Lawyer as Practitioner (BIICL, 2000) 103-24.
“Liability for Environmental Damage and the Report of the UNEP Working Group of Experts”, in A. Timoshenko (ed), Liability and Compensation for Environmental Damage, UNEP 1998, 1-25
“Sustainable development: treaty, custom and the cross-fertilisation of international law”, Boyle and Freestone (eds.), “International law and sustainable development” (1998, Oxford University Press, pp. 39-60) (reproducing with minor updating amendments article appearing in Yale Journal of Human Rights and Development)
“Environmental Protection in the 21st Century: Sustainable Development and International Law”, in N. Vig & R. Axelrod (eds), The Global Environment (Congressional Quarterly Inc, 1999), at 116-137.
“Watercourses, Environment and the International Court of Justice: the Gabcikovo-Nagymaros Case”, in S. Salman & L. Boisson de Chazournes (eds.), International Watercourses: Enhancing Cooperation and Managing Conflict , World Bank Technical Paper No. 414 (1999), at 103-7.
“Pleadings and the pursuit of international law: Nuclear tests II (New Zealand v France)”, in A. Anghie & G. Sturgess (eds.), Legal Visions of the 21st Century: Essays in Honour of Judge Weeramantry (Kluwer, 1998), at 601-630.
“La Cour internationale de justice, la Cour de justice des Communautés europénnes et la protection de l’environnement” in (ed.), Les hommes et l’environnement, quel droit pour le 21ème siècle?, Etudes en hommage a A. Kiss (1998), 323-44 (published by Editions Frison Roche)
“Protecting Future Generations: Precedents and Practicalities”, in E. Agius and S. Busuttil, Future Generations and International Law, 1997, 83-92 (Earthscan/Kogan Page)
"The International Court of Justice and the European Court of Justice", in J. Werksman (ed.), Greening International Institutions (1996) (25 pp.) (Earthscan/Kogan Page).
"The European Court of Justice: An Environmental Tribunal?" in H. Somsen (ed.) Enforcing EC Environmental Law: The National Dimension (Blackstone Press, 1996), p.23-35.
"Principles of International Law in the Field of Sustainable Development", in W. Lang (ed.), International Law and Sustainable Development (1995) (Martinus Nijhoff, 15 pp.).
"Sanciones Econòmicas contra la Argentina", in Malvinas Hoy: Herencia de un Conflito, (ed. Boron & Faundez) (1989) at 231-244.
"The Role of Non-Governmental Organisations in Enforcing International Environmental Law", in Butler (ed.) Control Over Compliance with International Law, 1991, pp. 61-68.
"Law and Policy on Global Warming in the United Kingdom", in Iwama (ed.) Policies and Law on Global Warming, Environmental Research Center, Tokyo, 213-228 (1991) (with Helen Jenn).
"International Legislation", in Environment Strategy Europe 1991, 37-38.
Financial Resources and International Funding Mechanisms for the Climate Change Convention, 35 pp (1991) (with Laura Bulatao)
Selected articles in journals and yearbooks
“Criminalising Ecocide Individuals should be held to account for environmental damage” 2025 British Medical Journal 390
“On lizard pumps and the self-determination of Karen Knop” 2024 University of Toronto Law Journal 74:160-166
“James Richard Crawford: An Appreciation” 4 Nov 2023 British Yearbook of International Law
“Tribute to James Richard Crawford” delivered Jesus College Cambridge Saturday 28 May 2022 Australian Journal of Human Rights 28(2)-3) 201 - 205
Interview: “P Sands (PS) in conversation with R Spano” (RS)-8 July 2021 2022 Journal of Human Rights and the Environment 13:6-15
“Prosecuting Putin's Aggression” 2 May 2022 Nation 314(9):4
Professor Ivan Shearer 1938 – 2019. 2019 Adelaide Law Review 40(2):387-416
“Genocide at 70: A reflection on its origins” 2018 Netherlands Quarterly of Human Rights Stichging Studie en Informatiecentrum Mensenrechten
“Of Refugees and Resignation” 2017 UCL Journal of Law and Jurisprudence
“Reflections on International Judicialization” 2016 European Journal of International Law 27 (4) 885 - 900
“Climate Change and the Rule of Law: Adjudicating the Future in International Law” 2016 Journal of Environmental Law
“Case Law of the International Court of Justice” 2015 CLJ 74(2):379-380
Regarding “United Kingdom Practise on the European Convention on Human Rights” by Lord Shawcross (1965-II): Britain, Europe and Human Rights - What Next? 2015 Revue Belge de Droit International
“Twin Peaks: The Hersch Lauterpacht Nuremberg Speeches” 2012 Cambridge Journal of International and Comparative Law
“On being 40: a celebration of 'Should Trees Have Standing?”Forward 2012 Journal of Human rights and the Environment 3:2-3
“The Memory of Justice: The unexpected place of Lviv in international law, a personal history” 2011 Case Western Reserve Journal of International Law
“A Very British Deceit” 2010 New York Review of Books 57(14):55-56 New York Review
“Eyes on the Horizon: Serving on the Front Lines of National Security” 2009 New York Review of Books 56(14):20 New York Review
“Interrogation, Intelligence and the Issue of Human Rights”2009 Intelligence and National Security 24(5):631-643
“Torture Team: the Responsibility of Lawyers for Abusive Interrogation” 2008 Melbourne Journal of International Law 9(2)
“(Re)Writing a Handbook on the Law of International Organizations: Options and Challenges” 2008 International Organizations Law Reviews (1):215-222
“The 'political' and the 'legal': comments on Professor Tushnet's paper” 2007 International Journal of Law in Context 3(4):319-322
“Lawless World: International Law after September” 11, 2001 and Iraq 2005 Melbourne Journal of International Law 6(2):437-457
Review essay symposium::” Philip Allott's eunomia and the health of nations Thinking Another World 'This cannot be how the world was meant to b”' An event to mark the retirement of Professor Philip Allott, Professor of International Public Law, University of Cambridge, -: 28-29 May 2004 2005 European Journal of International Law 16(2):255-297
“The Burgh House Principles on the Independence of the International judiciary” 2005 Law & Practice of International Courts and Tribunals 4(2):247-260
“Global Governance and the International Judiciary: Choosing Our Judges” 2004 Current Legal Problems Volume 56481-504
“International Courts and Tribunals and the Independence of the International Judge” 2003 Harvard Journal of International Law 44:271-285
“What is the ICJ For?” 2003 Revue Belge de Droit International
“Searching for Balance: Concluding Remarks” 2002 NYU Journal of International Law and Politics 35
“International law transformed? From Pinochet to Congo ...?” (2002 Cornelius von Vollenhoven Lecture), 2003 Leiden Journal of International Law
“What is the ICJ For?”, 2003 Revue Belge de Droit International 7
“Turtles and Torturers: the Transformation of International Law", 33 NYU JILP 527-58 (2001)
“Unilateralism, Values, and International Law”, 11 European Journal of International Law 291- 302 (2000)
“The 1968 Brussels Convention and Liability for Nuclear Damage”, 64 Nuclear Law Bulletin 7- 29 (1999)
"International Courts and the Application of the Concept of 'Sustainable Development'", 3 Max Planck Yearbook of United Nations Law, 389-407 (1999)
“The implications of the Pinochet proceedings”, Justice Bulletin, Summer 1999, 4-5
“The Future of International Adjudication”, 14 Connecticut Journal of International Law 1- 13 (1999)
“International Environmental Litigation and Its Future, 32 University of Richmond Law Review 1619-41 (1999)
‘Treaty, Custom and the Cross-Fertilisation of International Law’, 1 Yale Hum. Rts. Dev. L.J. 3 (1998)
“Enhancing Participation in International Litigation”, 24 Commonwealth Law Bulletin 540-572 (1998)
“Legal Aspects of a Nuclear Weapons Convention”, 6 African Yearbook of International Law 153-179 (1998) (with James Crawford)
“The Breard Case: from Virginia to The Hague”, 1998 University of Richmond Law School Alumnus magazine (4 pp.,)
“The New ‘Architecture of International Environmental Law’ (or ‘The Law Professor and the Strange Case of the Missing Green Glasses’)” 1997/2 Revue Belge de Droit International 512-21
'"Estuaries" in European Community Law: Defining Criteria' (with Caroline Blatch), 13 International Journal of Marine and Coastal Law -22 (1998)
Reports from International Courts and Tribunals (with Ruth Khalastchi), Yearbook of International Environmental Law, Vol 7, 1996, ed. Gunther Handl, Clarendon Press, Oxford, p.359-363.
'L'affaire des essais nucléaires II: contribution de l'instance au droit international de l'environnement, 1997 Revue Générale de Droit International public, 447-474 (in French) 8
`The International Court of Justice and Nuclear Weapons: Preliminary Observations on the Advisory Opinions', Nuclear Law Bulletin 58, December 1996 (Nuclear Energy Agency, OECD), p. 55-70.
`Human Rights, Environment and the Lopez-Ostra case: Context and Consequences', European Human Rights Law Review, Issue 6 1996 (November), p.597-618.
Reports from International Courts and Tribunals (with Ruth Khalastchi), Yearbook of International Environmental Law, Vol 6, 1995, ed. Gunther Handl, Clarendon Press, Oxford, p.531-549.
Reports from International Courts and Tribunals, Yearbook of International Environmental Law, Vol 5, 1994, ed. Gunther Handl, Clarendon Press, Oxford.
"Current Developments in EC Law: External Relations", 44 ICLQ (with Kate Cook), (1995).
"International Law in the Field of Sustainable Development", 1994 British Yearbook of International Law, Vol. 65, 303-381.
"Microbial Diversity and the 1992 Biodiversity Convention", with A. Layard, Biodiversity and Conservation (1995).
"Access to Environmental Justice in the European Community: Principles, Practice and Proposals", RECIEL, Vol 3 no. 4 (1994), p 206-214.
"The `Greening' of International Law: Emerging Principles and Rules", 1 Indiana Journal of Global Legal Studies, 293-323 (1994).
"ICJ/International Tribunals", Reports from International Courts and Tribunals, Yearbook of International Environmental Law, Volume 4, 1993, (Oxford), 1994, pp.5.
"Enforcing Environmental Security: The Challenges of Compliance with International Obligations", 46 Columbia University Journal of International Affairs, 367-390, (1993).
"Contemporary International Law Issues: Opportunities at a Time of Momentous Change", ASIL/NVIR Joint Conference Papers (1993), 209-228 and 351-366.
"Human Rights Aspects of Environmental Law", 7 Interights Bulletin (1993).
"Current Developments in EC Law: External Relations", 42 ICLQ 185-190 (with Kate Cook) (1993).
"The UN Framework Convention on Climate Change", 1 RECIEL 270-277 (1992).
"Danish Bottles and Mexican Tuna", 1 RECIEL 28-34, (1992).
"EC Environmental Law: the Emergence of a Regional Regime of International Environmental Law", 100 Yale Law Journal (1991).
"Introduction to Symposium Issue on EEC Environmental Law", 14 B.C. Intl & Comp. L.R. 237-241 (1991)
"The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development", 40 ICLQ (1991).
International Procedural Aspects of Atmospheric Protection: Environmental Impact Assessment and Access to Information, CIEL Background Papers in International Environmental Law, 30 pp. (1991) (with Laura Bulatao).
"Report on International Tribunals", Yearbook of International Environmental Law (1990) (with W. Shutkin); (1991); (1992).
"The EBRD and Environmental Protection", 84 Proc. A.S.I.L. 88-91 (1990).
"The European Court of Justice as an International Environmental Tribunal", 53 Modern Law Review 683-699 (1990).
"CITES and the African Elephant" 17 Boston College International and Comparative Law Review 799-822 (1990) (with A. Bedecarré).
"Liability for Transboundary Nuclear Pollution", a report prepared for Greenpeace International, 1989 , 90 pp.
"Environment, Community and International Law", 30 Harv. I.L.J. 393-420 (1989)
"EEC External Relations Law, 1988", 1989 ICLQ
"Banking Law in Europe in the 1990's", 1989 Yearbook of Banking Law 103-122 (with Prof. C. Lichtenstein).
"Jus Cogens and International Law", 1988 Conn. Jo. of Int'l L., 364 (with M.E. Turpel) 10
“Burying Chernobyl” 1988 Nation 246(17):593
"The Tin Council Litigation in the English Courts", 34 Neth. I.L.R. 367 (1987)
"Introduction to the Law of the EEC and the E.C.H.R.", 10 Bos. Coll. Int. & Comp. L. Rev. (1987)
"Cyprus: International Law and the Prospects for Settlement", 1984 Proc. A.S.I.L. 107 (rapporteur)
"The Legal Fallout from KAL 007", Harvard International Review, Oct. 1983, p. 44
Selected commissioned reports and conference proceedings
Article 11 Agreements under the Basel Convention (with J. Crawford, published by International Council on Metals and the Environment, August 1997, ISBN 1-895720-23-0, 46 pp.)
Legal Issues Presented by a Pilot International Greenhouse Gas Trading System (with R. Stewart & J. Wiener; UN Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD/GDS/GFSB/Misc.1, November 1996, 58 pp)
Background Paper for the UNEP Working Group on Environmental Damage, Liability and Compensation, Sands, Mackenzie and Khalastchi, (January 1995) (60 pp.).
FIELD Report of a Consultation on "Sustainable Development: The Challenge to International Law" (ed.), convened by FIELD at Windsor Castle (1993) (20 pp.).
Emerging Trends in International Environmental Regulation at the Global and Regional Level: The Implications for Transnational Corporations, pp.95; Report prepared for the United Nations (1993).
Books and other writings
General:
38 Londres Street: On Impunity, Pinochet in London, A Nazi in Patagonia (forthcoming, April 2025, in 8 languages)
The Last Colony (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, Alfred Knopf, Albin Michel, 2022, in 10 languages)
The Ratline (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2020; Alfred Knopf, Albin Michel, 2021, in 15 languages)
City of Lions (with Jozef Wittlin) (October 2016, Pushkin)
East West Street: on the origins of crimes against humanity and genocide/Retour à Lemberg (June 2016, Alfred Knopf (US) and Weidenfeld & Nicolson; Albin Michel, in 32 languages)
Torture Team: Deception, Cruelty and the Compromise of Law (April 2008, Penguin (UK) and Palgrave Macmillan (US); French edition (April 2010)).
Lawless World (Penguin, February 2005; paperback edition February 2006; Arabic edition (January 2007); Chinese edition (2012))
Academic:
Principles of International Environmental Law, 4th ed., CUP, 2018; 3rd edition, CUP, 2012; 2nd ed. CUP 2003; 1st. ed. Manchester University Press, 1995 (Vols. I, II and III)
Introduction to re-issue of Hersch Lauterpacht, An International Bill of Rights (Oxford University Press (2013)
Selecting International Judges: Principle, Process and Politics (With Kate Malleson, Ruth Mackenzie and Penny Martin) (Oxford University Press, 2010)
The Manual of International Courts and Tribunals (with Shany, Romano and Mackenzie), (2nd edition, Oxford University Press, 2010)
Bowett's Law of International Institutions, Sweet & Maxwell, 6th edition, 2009 (co-author with Pierre Klein, Universite Libre de Bruxelles)
Documents in EC Environmental Law (Cambridge University Press (2nd edition, April 2006, co-editor with Paolo Galizzi)
Documents in International Environmental Law (Cambridge University Press (2nd edition, May 2004. co-editor with Paolo Galizzi)
Justice for Crimes against Humanity (co-editor with Mark Lattimer), Hart Publishing (December 2003)
From Nuremburg to the Hague, 2003 (editor), Cambridge University Press
Environmental Law, The Economy and Sustainable Development (co-edited with Richard Stewart and Richard Revesz) Cambridge University Press, 2000
The International Court of Justice and Nuclear Weapons (collection of essays edited with Laurence Boisson de Chazournes, Cambridge University Press, 1999)
Chernobyl: Law and Communication, 340 pp. (Grotius Publications/Cambridge University Press) 1988.
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