Philippe Sands

British/French lawyer, legal academic and author · United Kingdom · Academics · Born 1960 · age 66

Read more often than usual, most of all on 11 October.

111 times the usual readers on 11 October. 30,664 readers on 11 October, against about 276 a day before the rise.

A life in dates

2026Peace Prize of the German Publishers' and Booksellers' AssociationAward2025Order of Prince Yaroslav the Wise, 5th classAward2023Ehrenpreis des österreichischen Buchhandels für Toleranz in Denken und HandelnAwardMore about thisPrix de la Contre-AlléeAward2022Honorary doctor of the University of LiègeAwardHonorary Doctor of University of Lyon-IIIAward2020Fellow of the Royal Society of LiteratureAward2019Honorary Doctor of the Katholieke Universiteit LeuvenAward2018Prix Montaigne de BordeauxAward2017Honorary doctorate from the University of East AngliaAwardJewish Quarterly-Wingate PrizeAward2016Baillie Gifford PrizeAward1960Born17 October 1960

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Awards

Peace Prize of the German Publishers' and Booksellers' Association2026

Order of Prince Yaroslav the Wise, 5th class2025

Ehrenpreis des österreichischen Buchhandels für Toleranz in Denken und Handeln2023

Prix de la Contre-Allée2023

Honorary doctor of the University of Liège2022

Honorary Doctor of University of Lyon-III2022

Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature2020

Honorary Doctor of the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven2019

Prix Montaigne de Bordeaux2018

Jewish Quarterly-Wingate Prize2017

Honorary doctorate from the University of East Anglia2017

Baillie Gifford Prize2016

King's Counsel

Order of the Star and Key of the Indian Ocean

About this person

Philippe Joseph Sands is a British and French writer and lawyer at 11 King's Bench Walk and Professor of Laws and Director of the Centre on International Courts and Tribunals at the Faculty of Laws, University College London. A specialist in international law, he appears as counsel and advocate before many international courts and tribunals, including the International Court of Justice, the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea, the European Court of Justice, the European Court of Human Rights and the International Criminal Court.

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Country

United Kingdom