Philippe Sands

Philippe Sands, QC ( born October 17, 1960 in London ) is a British lawyer.

Life

Sands grandfather was born in 1904 in Lvov, his mother fled in 1938 as a Jewish child from Austria to France and lived in a Catholic orphanage the Holocaust. Sands grew up in a middle class family in London and studied law at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge. He then spent a year at Harvard Law School, where he met the American philosophy of combining legal with political questions. Sands 1985 Barrister.

Sands held professorships at St Catharine's College, Cambridge ( 1984-88 ), King's College London ( 1988-91 ), at the School of Law at New York University ( 1994-2003 ) and at the School of Oriental and African Studies ( 1989-2002 ). Since 2002 he has been Professor of International Law and Director of the Centre on International Courts and Tribunals at University College London. He is a member of the Bar Group Matrix Chambers in Gray 's Inn. In 2003 he became Queen's Counsel, and in 2009 he was appointed a Bencher at Middle Temple.

Sands was known to the public, as he accused of conspiracy and violation of international law in the Second Iraq War President George W. Bush and British Prime Minister Tony Blair. In his book, Torture Team: Rumsfeld 's Memo and the Betrayal of American Values ​​(2008), he noted that U.S. politicians could use torture in respect of detained terrorists. Sands was of 2011, the Republic of Macedonia in the dispute over the name Macedonia with Greece.

In legal-historical research on the origins of international criminal law at two of its creator, the lawyers and Lembergern Hersch Lauterpacht and Raphael Lemkin, Sands met with Niklas Frank, the son of the supreme Nazi lawyer Hans Frank, and through him to Horst guard, son of NS functionary Otto Wächter, who was governor of the district of Galicia, in occupied Poland. Sands could Horst guard who does not regard his father as criminals and defended against accusations, ask him twice and submit documents on the participation of civilian occupation administration in the Holocaust in Lviv.

Sands lives with his wife and three children in London.

Writings (selection )

  • Torture team: Rumsfeld 's memo and the betrayal of American values ​​. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2008
  • Lawless world: America and the making and breaking of global rules from FDR 's Atlantic Charter to George W. Bush's was illegal. New York: Viking, 2005
  • From Nuremberg to The Hague: the future of international criminal justice. Cambridge: Cambridge Univ. Press, 2003
  • Principles of international environmental law. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2003
  • Richard L Revesz; Richard B. Stewart: Environmental law, the economy, and sustainable development: the United States, the European Union and the international community. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2000
  • Greening international law. New York: New Press, 1994
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