22 February 2011
Professor Sir Nigel Rodley KBE, Vice-Chair of the UN Human Rights Committee and Chair of the University of Essex Human Rights Centre, will deliver the Human Rights Law Centre’s Spring Lecture on Counter-Terrorism: The Human Rights Deficit on Tuesday, 22 February 2011, at 18:00 in the Senate Chamber, Trent Building.
The lecture will be chaired by HRLC Co-Director Professor David Harris and is open to both students and staff.
Sir Nigel Rodley KBE is Professor of Law and Chair of the Human Rights Centre at the University of Essex where he has taught since 1990. He is a member of the UN Human Rights Committee (since 2001) and a former UN Special Rapporteur on Torture (1993-2001). He is also a Commissioner of the International Commission of Jurists and Trustee of the Medical Foundation for the Care of Victims of Torture (an IRCT member organisation). He has just been appointed to the newly-created Foreign and Commonwealth Office's Advisory Group on Human Rights (10 November 2010).
He was the founding head of Amnesty International's Legal Office (1973-1990). A former Research Fellow at New York University's Centre for International Studies (1970-73), he has taught at Dalhousie University (1965-68), the New School for Social Research Graduate Faculty (1969-72) and the London School of Economics (1973-1990), where he was also a Research Fellow in 1983. He served at UN Headquarters in New York as an Assistant and then Associate Economic Affairs Officer (1966, 1968-69).
Honours: Knighted in 1998 for services to human rights and international law; honorary LLD, Dalhousie University (2000); American Society of International Law Goler T Butcher Medal for distinguished work in human rights (2005); Honorary Fellow, Royal College of Physicians Faculty of Forensic Law and Medicine (2008).
His publications include the landmark and now standard work The Treatment of Prisoners under International Law, Oxford University Press; 3rd ed., 2009, with Matt Pollard.