Nigel S. Rodley

Sir Nigel S. Rodley in 2015

Sir Nigel Simon Rodley (born 1 December 1941) is an international lawyer and professor.

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 founding member and former Executive Committee Vice-Chairman of INTERIGHTS: International Centre for the Legal Protection of Human Rights.^[1]
• a member of the Executive Committee of the David Davies Memorial Institute of International Studies.^[2]
• a trustee of Freedom from 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.

Education

Rodley has degrees from:

• LLD - Dalhousie University, 2000 (honorary)
• PhD - University of Essex, 1992
• LLM - New York University, 1970
• LLM - Columbia University, 1965
• LLB - University of Leeds, 1963

Academic posts

He is currently:

• Professor of Law and Chair of the Human Rights Centre,^[3] 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.

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 City,
• for Amnesty International, Legal Advisor and Head of the Legal and Intergovernmental Organisations Office (1973–1990),

Publications

Published works include:

• (with Matt Pollard) The Treatment of Prisoners under International Law (3rd edition, 2009);
• (with Matt Pollard) "Criminalisation of Torture: State Obligations under the United Nations Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment" 2006[2] European Human Rights Law Review 115 (2006);
• 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" in Current Legal Problems. p467 (2002)
• The Treatment of Prisoners under International Law (1st edition 1987, 2nd edition 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) Enhancing Global Human Rights (1979);
• (co-ed with C N Ronning) International Law in the Western Hemisphere (1974);

In 2010, Routledge published The Delivery of Human Rights: Essays in Honour of Professor Sir Nigel Rodley, edited by his colleagues Geoff Gilbert, Francoise Hampson, and Clara Sandoval.

Lectures

• United Nations Treaty and Charter-based Human Rights Bodies: Competitive or Complementary? in the Lecture Series of the United Nations Audiovisual Library of International Law

Awards

• Recipient of the American Society of International Law's 2005 Goler T. Butcher Medal for distinguished work in human rights.
• A knighthood in recognition of his services to human rights and international law (1998).

Personal life

Rodley is of Jewish descent.^[4] As well as his native English, he speaks French, German, and Spanish.

References

Links

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

External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Nigel S. Rodley.

• Freedom from Torture website
• Bahrain Authorities Failed in Implementing Report’s Recommendations - BICI member Prof. Rodley