Date / time
Date(s) - 29/04/2025
5:30 pm - 9:00 pm
Location
Signet Library
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We are thrilled to announce that JUSTICE Scotland’s Annual Human Rights Lecture will be returning on Tuesday 29th April 2025, at The Signet Library in Edinburgh. This year’s lecture will be delivered by Philippe Sands.
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Registration: from 5:30pm
Lecture: 6pm
We are grateful to Pinsent Masons LLP for their continued support of the Annual Human Rights Lecture.
Philippe Sands QC is Professor of the Public Understanding of Law at University College London and Samuel and Judith Pisar Visiting Professor of Law at Harvard Law School. He is a practising barrister at 11 Kings Bench Walk, and frequently appears as counsel before the International Court of Justice and other international courts and tribunals. He sits as an arbitrator in international investment disputes and on the Court of Arbitration for Sport, including the Paris 2024 Olympic Games
He is author of Lawless World (2005) and Torture Team (2008) and numerous academic books on international law, and has contributed to the New York Review of Books, Vanity Fair, the Financial Times, The Guardian and the New York Times.
His most recent books are East West Street: On the Origins of Crimes Against Humanity and Genocide (2016) (awarded the 2016 Baillie Gifford Prize, the 2017 British Book Awards Non-Fiction Book of the Year, and the 2018 Prix Montaigne) and The Ratline: Love, Lies and Justice on the Trail of a Nazi Fugitive (2020), also available as BBC and France Culture podcasts. His latest book is The Last Colony: A Tale of Exile, Justice and Britain’s Colonial Legacy (2022). His new book, 38 Londres Street: On Pinochet in England and a Nazi in Patagonia, will be published in April 2025. He is translated in more than 30 languages.
Philippe served as President of English PEN (2018-2023) and is a member of the Board of the Hay Festival of Arts and Literature.