Philippe Sands considers the case of the dictator Augusto Pinochet, who eluded efforts to bring him to account for ...

In ’38 Londres Street,’ Philippe Sands intertwines the stories of Augusto Pinochet, a high-ranking Nazi official and his own ...

Although the Bush administration has stated that the interrogations techniques used at Guantanamo Bay came from the bottom up, British lawyer Philippe Sands disagrees. In his 2008 book, Torture Team, ...

Two detectives and an interpreter were there to place the 82-year-old retired army general under arrest for crimes committed ...

When reading Sands, it is sometimes difficult to separate the author from his subject matter, and not just because his family shares a city of origin with Lemkin and Lauterpacht. A roll call of ...

Philippe Sands investigates in his new book Torture Team – how the Rumsfeld Memo – a Memo signed by Donald Rumsfeld in 2002 that listed eighteen techniques of interrogation which defied international ...

“It is more important to understand the butcher than the victim,” the Spanish novelist Javier Cercas told Philippe Sands, professor of international law at University College London. That seems a ...

Philippe Sands joined the Faculty of the University College of London in January 2002. He is Professor of Law and Director of the Centre on International Courts and Tribunals in the Faculty, and a key ...

In his new book, Torture Team: Rumsfeld's Memo and the Betrayal of American Values, international lawyer Philippe Sands accuses former Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld of condoning sensory ...

new video loaded: When Is It Genocide? transcript In the days after Oct. 7, President Joe Biden tried to help Americans touch the size of Israel’s horror and grief by translating it into the terms of ...

Philippe Sands, QC, is a professor of law at University College London. His book East West Street (2016, Alfred Knopf) traces the origins of genocide and crimes against humanity to the Ukrainian city ...