Philippe Sands

Philippe Sands is Professor of Public Understanding of Law at UCL, visiting professor at Harvard Law School and a practising barrister at 11 KBW. He has been involved in many significant international cases in recent years, including Pinochet, Congo, Yugoslavia, Rwanda, Iraq, Guantanamo, Chagos and the Rohingya. He is the author of Lawless World, Torture Team, East West Street (winner of the Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction) and Sunday Times bestsellers The Ratline and The Last Colony. His new book, 38 Londres Street: On Impunity, Pinochet in England and a Nazi in Patagonia, uncovers a chilling historical crime that has real world impact today.

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Philippe Sands

5 Speakers, 15 Minutes Each - October 2025

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