Nigel S. Rodley

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Sir Nigel S. Rodley KBE is an international human rights lawyer and professor.

Contents 1 Current positions 2 Education 3 Academic posts 4 Former positions 5 Publications 6 Awards 7 Social 8 References

[edit] Current positions

Rodley is:

• 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 member of the Board of the European Human Rights Foundation,
• a founding member and former Executive Committee Vice-Chairman of INTERIGHTS,
• a member of the Executive Committee of the David Davies Memorial Institute of International Studies.
• a trustee of the Medical Foundation for the Care of Victims of Torture
• a member of the International Independent Group of Eminent Persons, (IIGEP), 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

[edit] Education

Rodley has degrees from:

• LLD - Dalhousie University, 2000 (honorary)
• PhD - University of Essex, 1993
• LLM - New York University, 1970
• LLM - Columbia University, 1965
• LLB - University of Leeds, 1963

[edit] Academic posts

He is:

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

He has formerly taught at:

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

[edit] Former positions

He was formerly:

• UN Special Rapporteur on torture, serving in this capacity from 1993 to 2001,
• working at UN Headquarters in New York,
• for Amnesty International, Legal Advisor and Head of the Legal and Intergovernmental Organisations Office (1973-1990),

[edit] Publications

Published works include:

• The UN Human Rights Machinery and International Criminal Law, in Lattimer and Sands (eds.), Justice for Crimes against Humanity (2003, Hart Publishing);
• The Definition(s) of Torture in International Law, 55 Cur'nt Leg. Probs. 467 (2002)
• The Treatment of Prisoners under International Law (1987, 1999);
• Impunity of Human Rights (1998);
• (co-ed with Y Danieli and L Weisaeth) International Responses to Traumatic Stress (1995);
• (ed) To Loose the Bands of Wickedness - International Intervention in Defence of Human Rights (1992);
• (with J I Domniguez, B Wood and R A Falk) Enchancing Global Human Rights (1979);
• (co-ed with C N Ronning) International Law in the Western Hemisphere (1974);

[edit] Awards

• Recipient of the American Society of International Law's 2005 Goler T. Butcher Medal[1] for distinguished work in human rights.

[edit] Social

Rodley speaks, apart from his native English:

• French
• German
• Spanish

[edit] References

• University of Essex - Staff listing
  • Department of Law listing
• ICJ listing
• UN HCHR listing