Dr Andrew Sanger
- University Associate Professor of International Law
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- R1, Old Court, Corpus Christi College
About
Andrew is an Associate Professor of International Law; a Fellow of the Lauterpacht Centre for International Law; and a Fellow, Director of Studies in Law and Dean of College at Corpus Christi College. Andrew is also a Member of Matrix Chambers.
Andrew went to a state comprehensive secondary school before reading Philosophy and Law at Cambridge (Selwyn College). He went to the London School of Economics for an LLM in Public International Law before returning to Cambridge for a PhD. He was previously a Junior Research Fellow at the Lauterpacht Centre for International Law and a Junior Research Lecturer at Newnham College. In 2016, he was a Visiting Scholar at the University of California, Berkeley School of Law. He presented his research at the Tenth Annual Penn-Stanford International Faculty Forum, Stanford Law School and the NYU/Nottingham/Melbourne, Fifth Annual Junior Faculty Forum in International Law. From 2020-2022, Andrew was the Academic Secretary of the Faculty of Law and a Faculty Officer. In 2022, he was awarded the Student-Led Teaching Award for Small-Group Teaching (Arts, Humanities & Social Sciences); in 2023, he was a Finalist for the Oxford University Press Law Teacher of the Year Award; and in 2024, he was awarded the University of Cambridge Pilkington Prize for Excellence in Teaching.
Andrew is a Senior Fellow at Melbourne Law School and teaches on the Melbourne Law Masters (from 2022). He is also a Research Collaborator on the Laureate Program in Global Corporations and International Law, a member of the Transnational Association of Legal Scholars, and a Note Editor for the Cambridge Law Journal.
Research
Andrew’s research explores questions of international law and global governance, with a current focus on the role, regulation and responsibility of global private actors and their relationship with international law and the state. He is also interested in the interaction between international law and other legal/normative systems; the law of immunity; the impact of digital technologies and big data on democracy and global governance; the law of genocide; international law on the use of force; and the ways in which international law exacerbates and/or responds to human vulnerability, disenfranchisement and inequality. Among other things, Andrew is currently completing a project called “Everywhere and Nowhere: The Transnational Corporation in the Global Legal Order”.
Research centres: Centre for Public Law (CPL); Lauterpacht Centre for International Law (LCIL)