Nigel Rodley

Personal life

Professional positions

• a member of the UN Human Rights Committee, a body of 18 human rights experts that monitors UN member states' compliance with the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, and
• a Commissioner of the International Commission of Jurists,
• a founding member and former Executive Committee Vice-Chairman of INTERIGHTS: International Centre for the Legal Protection of Human Rights.
• a member of the Executive Committee of the David Davies Memorial Institute of International Studies.
• a trustee of Freedom from Torture.
• a member of the International Independent Group of Eminent Persons,, a group of experts invited by the President of Sri Lanka Mahinda Rajapaksa to observe the workings of a Presidential Commission of Inquiry into serious Human Rights violations in Sri Lanka,
• a member of the Crimes Against Humanity Initiative Advisory Council, a project of the Whitney R. Harris World Law Institute at Washington University School of Law in St. Louis to establish the world’s first treaty on the prevention and punishment of crimes against humanity.

  Education

• LLD – Dalhousie University, 2000
• PhD – University of Essex, 1992
• LLM – New York University, 1970
• LLM – Columbia University, 1965
• LLB – University of Leeds, 1963

  Academic posts

• Professor of Law and Chair of the Human Rights Centre, University of Essex, having taught there since 1990.

• Dalhousie University,
• the Graduate Faculty of the New School for Social Research, and
• the London School of Economics.

  Former positions

• UN Special Rapporteur on torture, serving in this capacity from 1993 to 2001,
• working at UN Headquarters in New York City,
• for Amnesty International, Legal Advisor and Head of the Legal and Intergovernmental Organisations Office,

  Publications

• The Treatment of Prisoners under International Law ;
• "Criminalisation of Torture: State Obligations under the United Nations Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment" 2006 European Human Rights Law Review 115 ;
• The UN Human Rights Machinery and International Criminal Law, in Lattimer and Sands, Justice for Crimes against Humanity ;
• "The Definition of Torture in International Law" in Current Legal Problems. p467
• The Treatment of Prisoners under International Law ;
• Impunity of Human Rights ;
• International Responses to Traumatic Stress ;
• To Loose the Bands of Wickedness – International Intervention in Defence of Human Rights ;
• Enhancing Global Human Rights ;
• International Law in the Western Hemisphere ;

Lectures

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  Awards

• Recipient of the American Society of International Law's 2005 Goler T. Butcher Medal for distinguished work in human rights.
• A KBE in recognition of his services to human rights and international law.