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John le Carré remembered by writers and friends: 'He always had a naughty twinkle in the eye'

Margaret Atwood, John Banville, Tom Stoppard, Ralph Fiennes, John Boorman and more pay tribute to a master who transcended the limits of spy fiction

Published: 14 Dec 2020

Books blog Writers need PEN more than ever

A century after the international association of writers was founded, authors are under unprecedented threat

Published: 15 Oct 2020

Thomas Mensah obituary

Lawyer who was the world’s leading arbitrator on the settlement of international maritime disputes

Published: 22 Apr 2020
On the trail of a Nazi war criminal: 'It's my duty as a son to find the good in my father'

Published: 18 Apr 2020
'I was a Nazi boy - then everything was gone': Philippe Sand's The Ratline - audio extract

Podcast

Published: 18 Apr 2020

Today in Focus Unlawful: the supreme court stuns Boris Johnson

Philippe Sands QC on the decision by the supreme court to rule against the government on the suspension of parliament. Plus: Shoshana Zuboff on how to fight back against surveillance capitalism

Podcast

Published: 24 Sep 2019

At last, the Chagossians have a real chance of going back home

Britain’s behaviour towards its former colony has been shameful. The UN resolution changes everything, says lawyer Philippe Sands

Published: 24 May 2019

Published: 24 May 2019

Geoffrey Cox has no grounds to change his mind on the Northern Ireland backstop

Breaking international treaties unilaterally is seldom possible – as I know from experience, says law professor Philippe Sands

Published: 18 Mar 2019

Published: 18 Mar 2019

Reformation 2017 Philippe Sands: ‘We are citizens of the world – we need a global passport’

On the 500th anniversary of the Reformation, the professor of law calls for an end to the ‘absurd, monopoly power’ of the national passport

Published: 25 Aug 2017

Rereading Primo Levi’s If This is a Man at 70

Ahead of a public reading, Philippe Sands explores the lessons of Levi’s humanity-filled holocaust memoir

Published: 22 Apr 2017

Sir Elihu Lauterpacht obituary

Lawyer who as both advocate and adjudicator advanced the cause of international justice

Published: 10 Feb 2017

A life in ... ‘We’re on a xenophobic path – someone needs to press pause’: Philippe Sands in conversation with Hisham Matar

The books interview: the lawyer and novelist, both nominated for the Baillie Gifford prize for non-fiction, announced on 15 November, discuss human rights, citizenship and identity

Published: 12 Nov 2016

Published: 12 Nov 2016

How the Nuremberg trials found names for the Nazis' crimes

Human rights lawyer Philippe Sands tells the personal stories of how genocide and crimes against humanity were first defined in law

Published: 22 May 2016

Seventy years after Nuremberg, global justice is still a work in progress

The law alone will not make war impossible, or stop killings and other crimes. But the legacy of the Nuremberg trials is the idea of accountability

Published: 20 Nov 2015

Published: 20 Nov 2015

The government is playing a dangerous game trying to scrap the Human Rights Act

The Tories’ plans to repeal this fundamental act will have profound consequences for the future of human rights in the UK, and Britain’s engagement with Europe

Published: 21 Oct 2015

Published: 21 Oct 2015

This British bill of rights could end the UK

The Tories’ plans would leave some people in the United Kingdom with more rights than others. This is clearly untenable

Published: 14 May 2015

Published: 14 May 2015

In the face of Islamic State’s atrocities, global inaction is not an option

The ICC may have no jurisdiction in Iraq and Syria, but a failure to investigate would be tantamount to admitting that the Nuremberg principles have reached their practical limit

Published: 19 Apr 2015

Published: 19 Apr 2015

Nuremberg trials interpreter Siegfried Ramler: ‘The things we saw were shocking’

Seven years after fleeing the Nazis on the kindertransport, Siegfried Ramler made his way to Nuremberg – where he became an interpreter in the trials of Germany’s major war criminals

Published: 22 Oct 2014

Other lives Inge Trott obituary

Other lives: One-time lab assistant at King's College London and campaigner for many causes

Published: 6 Aug 2014

Why did Richard Strauss write music for a Nazi war criminal?

Philippe Sands on what prompted the composer to honour Hans Frank, a mass murderer known as the 'Butcher of Poland', with a piece written especially for him

Published: 23 May 2014

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