Masters of the Bench

Full Title: Professor Philippe Sands KC

Category: Ordinary Bencher

Bench Call Date: 30-06-2009

Call Date: 26-11-1985

Bio:

Philippe is a founder member of Matrix Chambers, a professor of International Law at University College London, and an expert on international remedies in the field of trade disputes, environmental law and inter-state claims.  He has written for a wider audience on the Guantanamo practices of the last US administration, and his latest book has even been serialised in Vanity Fair.  He was a junior counsel in the first of many UK cases on the novel issue of inter-state relations regarding the protection of British nationals and has helped bring the principles of public international law into play in the domestic courts.