Distinguished friends
Khalid Abdalla
Maria Adebowale-Schwarte
Sukhpal Singh Ahluwalia
Rajesh Agrawal
Riz Ahmed
Sughra Ahmed
Keith Ajegbo
Claire Alexander
Kitty Arie
Julian Baggini
Zelda Baveystock
Haidee Bell
Richard Beswick
Dinesh Bhugra
Karan Bilimoria
Geoffrey Bindman
Karen Blackett
Nicholas Blake
Ian Blatchford
David Blunkett
Hina Bokhari
Mihir Bose
Alain de Botton
John Bowers
Stephen Briganti
Des Browne
Mukti Jain Campion
Paul Canoville
Gus Casely-Hayford
Michael Cashman
Saimo Chahal
Reeta Chakrabarti
Shami Chakrabarti
Stephen Claypole
Robin Cohen
Linda Colley
David Crystal
Angélica Dass
Prakash Daswani
Sandie Dawe
Navnit Dholakia
Sherry Dobbin
Ibrahim Dogus
Lloyd Dorfman
Alf Dubs
John Dyson
Damien Egan
Graeme Farrow
Daniel Franklin
Edie Friedman
Jitesh Gadhia
Manjit Singh Gill
Teresa Graham
Ann Grant
Susie Harries
Naomie Harris
James Hathaway
David Hencke
Sophie Herxheimer
Afua Hirsch
Michael Howard
Clive Jacobs
Kevin Jennings
Adrian Johns
Shobu Kapoor
Malik Karim
Jackie Kay
Ayub Khan-Din
Francesca Klug
Tony Kushner
Kwasi Kwarteng
Kwame Kwei-Armah
David Kynaston
Brian Lambkin
Mark Lewisohn
Joanna Lumley
Michael Mansfield
Sue McAlpine
Neil Mendoza
Nick Merriman
Munira Mirza
Abigail Morris
Hugh Muir
Tessa Murdoch
Sandy Nairne
Bushra Nasir
Susheila Nasta
Eithne Nightingale
John O’Farrell
Kenneth Olisa
Kunle Olulode
Julia Onslow-Cole
John Orna-Ornstein
Sameer Pabari
Ruth Padel
Panikos Panayi
Bhikhu Parekh
Nikesh Patel
David Pearl
Caryl Phillips
Mike Phillips
Trevor Phillips
Sunand Prasad
Kavita Puri
Charles Rix
Trevor Robinson
Aubrey Rose
Michael Rosen
Cathy Ross
Salman Rushdie
Jill Rutter
Philippe Sands
Sathnam Sanghera
Konrad Schiemann
Richard Scott
Stephen Sedley
Maggie Semple
Babita Sharma
Nikesh Shukla
Jon Snow
Sonia Solicari
Robert Soning
David Spence
Danny Sriskandarajah
Stelio Stefanou
Dick Taverne
Jane Thompson
Robert Tombs
Rumi Verjee
Patrick Vernon
Edmund de Waal
Iqbal Wahhab
Yasmin Waljee
David Warren
Iain Watson
Debbie Weekes-Bernard
Henning Wehn
Nat Wei
Janet Whitaker
Gary Younge
The Migration Museum Project will make a vital contribution, reminding us of the richness and diversity of our country, and of a world in constant flux and movement, with all the benefits and challenges and risks posed.
Philippe Sands
As a barrister at Matrix Chambers, Professor Philippe Sands KC practises in public international law. He appears regularly before English and international courts. His cases include ex parte Augusto Pinochet (House of Lords, counsel for Human Rights Watch), A & Others (Belmarsh detention case and admissibility of torture evidence case, both House of Lords) and Democratic Republic of Congo v Uganda (ICJ, counsel for DRC). He served as an adviser to the delegation of Samoa in the negotiations of the Statute of the International Criminal Court (Rome, 1998), and was appointed amicus curiae by the Appeals Chamber of the Special Court for Sierra Leone to make submissions on Head of State immunity under international law (Prosecutor v Charles Taylor).
As Professor of Laws and Director of the Centre of International Courts and Tribunals at University College London he has published a number of academic books. These include Bowett’s Law of International Institutions (2009, 6th edition), Principles of International Environmental Law (2003, 2nd edition), From Nuremberg to The Hague (Cambridge, 2003) and Butterworths Manual of International Courts and Tribunals (1999).
He is author of Torture Team: Rumsfeld’s Memo and the Betrayal of American Values (2008) and Lawless World: America and the Making and Breaking of Global Rules (2005, 2006), which inspired a stage play (Called to Account, Tricycle Theatre) and a television film (The Trial of Tony Blair, Channel 4). His 2016 book, East West Street: On the Origins of Genocide and Crimes against Humanity won the Baillie Gifford Prize and formed the basis for the documentary My Nazi Legacy: What Our Fathers Did, which was released in 2015 and won the best documentary award at the Stockholm Film Festival and the Evening Standard British Films Awards.
He writes regularly for the Guardian, Vanity Fair and the New York Review of Books and is a commentator for the BBC, CNN and other radio and television producers.