Philippe Sands

Philippe Sands, QC is a British and French lawyer at Matrix Chambers, and is Professor of International law at University College London. Sands is notable for writing Lawless World (2006), in which he accused US President George W. Bush and Prime Minister Tony Blair of conspiring to invade Iraq in violation of international law. His next book, Torture Team: Rumsfeld’s Memo and the Betrayal of American Values (2008), dealt with the decisions by top US policymakers to use torture in interrogation of suspects in the war on terror.

Publications

• East West Street: On the Origins of Genocide and Crimes against Humanity (2016)
• International Law and Developing Countries: Essays in Honour of Kamal Hossain (with Sharif Bhuiyan and Nico Schrijver) (2014)
• Lawless World: America and the Making and Breaking of Global Rules (2005; Arabic edition in 2007; Farsi edition in 2008; Chinese edition in 2012; Turkish edition forthcoming in 2016)
• Torture Team: Rumsfeld’s Memo and the Betrayal of American Values (2008; French edition in 2009)
• Hersch Lauterpacht, An International Bill of Rights (1945) (ed., with introduction) (2013)
• Principles of International Environmental Law (with Jacqueline Peel) (1995, 2003, 2012)
• Selecting International Judges: Principle, Process and Politics (with Kate Malleson, Ruth Mackenzie and Penny Martin) (2010)
• The Manual of International Courts and Tribunals (ed. with Ruth Mackenzie, Cesare Romano, Yuval Shany), (2010)
• Bowett’s Law of International Institutions (with Pierre Klein) (2001, 2009)
• Justice for Crimes against Humanity (ed. with Mark Lattimer) (2003)
• From Nuremberg to the Hague (ed.) (2003)
• Vers une transformation du droit international? Institutionaliser le doute (2000)
• Environmental Law, The Economy and Sustainable Development (ed. with Richard Stewart and Richard Revesz) (2000)
• The International Court of Justice and Nuclear Weapons (ed., with Laurence Boisson de Chazournes) (1999)
• Greening International Law (ed.) (1993)
• The Antarctic and the Environment (ed. with Joe Verhoeven and Maxwell Bruce) (1992)
• Chernobyl: Law and Communication (1988)

Yoram Dinstein

Dr. Yoram Dinstein is Professor Emeritus at Tel Aviv University, and (since 2010) President of the United Nations Association of Israel. Dr. Yoram Dinstein is Professor Emeritus at Tel Aviv University, and (since 2010) President of the United Nations Asso- ciation of Israel. He is a former President of Tel Aviv University (1991-1999), as well as former Rector (1980-1985) and former Dean of the Faculty of Law (1978-1980). He served twice (1999/2000 and 2002/2003) as the Charles H. Stockton Professor of International Law at the US Naval War College in Newport, RI. He was also a Humboldt Fellow at the Max Planck Institute of International Law in Heidelberg, Germany (2000/2001); a Meltzer Visiting Professor of Law at New York University (1985/1987); and a Visi- ting Professor of Law at the University of Toronto (1976/1977).
Professor Dinstein gave a lecture during International Holocaust Remembrance Day The Hague in 2019.

Publications

• The Conduct of Hostilities Under the Law of International Armed Conflict, ISBN0521198135, Cambridge University Press (2nd ed., 2010)
• The International Law of Belligerent Occupation, Cambridge University Press, ISBN0-521-72094-X (2009)
• War, Aggression and Self-Defence, Cambridge University Press, ISBN0-521-79758-6 (4th ed., 2005) (5th ed., 2011)
• War crimes in international law, co-editor with Mala Tabory, Martinus Nijhoff Publishers, ISBN90-411-0237-X (1996)
• Freedom of Religion and the Protection of Religious Minorities, The Jacob Blaustein Institute for the Advancement of Human Rights (1991)
• The Release of Prisoners of War, International Committee of the Red Cross (1984)
• Models of Autonomy, Transaction Publishers, ISBN0-87855-435-1 (1981)
• The Laws of War at Sea, (1980)
• The Defence of “Obedience to Superior Orders” in International Law, A. W. Sijthoff (1965)

Articles

• “Air and Missile Warfare Under International Humanitarian Law”, The Military Law and the Law of War Review.  (2013)
• “Comments on Protocol I, International Review of the Red Cross (2010)
• “War, Aggression and Self-Defence”, Commonwealth Law Bulletin, Volume 32, Issue 4 (December 2006)
• “Comments on War”, Harvard Journal of Law and Public Policy(2003)
• “The Parameters and Context of International Criminal Law”, Touro Journal of Transnational Law (1988)
• “International Criminal Law”, The Israel Law Review (1985)
• “Oil pollution by ships and freedom of the high seas”, Journal of Maritime Law & Com.(1971)