Tuesday 26 February 2013 5:30pm to 6:30pm
Lauterpacht Centre for International Law, Finley Library
About
Lecture Summary: A voyage around the International Court of Justice, focusing on practice and procedure, as the institution approaches the centenary of its predecessor in a world now populated by a varied and growing range of international courts and tribunals, judicial and arbitral.
Over the course of three lectures, Philippe Sands will explore the role of the lawyers, judges and registry in the face of challenges posed by modernity and competition to the principal judicial organ of the United Nations.
Professor Philippe Sands is Professor of Law and Director of the Centre for International Courts and Tribunals at University College London. He has acted as counsel before the ICJ and other international courts and tribunals, and sits as an arbitrator at the Court of Arbitration for Sport, the International Centre for the Settlement of Investment Disputes and the Permanent Court of Arbitration.
He is the author of Bowett’s Law of International Institutions (6th edition, 2009) and an editor of the Manual of International Courts and Tribunals (2nd edition, 2012), amongst other academic works, as well as Lawless World(2005) and Torture Team (2008), and contributes regularly to the New York Review of Books, Vanity Fair and The Guardian. He is on the board of English PEN, serves as a vice president of the Hay Festival of Arts and Literature and is a member of the appeal board of the Bingham Centre for the Rule of Law.