{"id":2222,"date":"2019-03-18T21:03:54","date_gmt":"2019-03-18T21:03:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.kreisky-forum.org\/news\/philipp-sands-ratlines"},"modified":"2026-04-27T10:29:35","modified_gmt":"2026-04-27T10:29:35","slug":"philipp-sands-ratlines","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.kreisky-forum.org\/en\/news\/philipp-sands-ratlines","title":{"rendered":"Philipp Sands: RATLINES"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>How Justice got politicised and what to do against it<\/h2>\n<p>Philipp Sands, British and French lawyer at <a title=\"Matrix Chambers\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Matrix_Chambers\">Matrix Chambers<\/a>, and Professor at <a title=\"University College London\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/University_College_London\">University College London<\/a>, is President of English PEN. A specialist in <a title=\"International law\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/International_law\">international law<\/a>, he appears as counsel before many international courts and tribunals, and sits as an international arbitrator.  He is the author of numerous books on international law, including <em><a title=\"Lawless World\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Lawless_World\">Lawless World<\/a><\/em> (2005) and <em>Torture Team<\/em> (2008).<\/p>\n<p>His most recent book <em>East West Street: On the Origins of Genocide and Crimes against Humanity<\/em> (2016) has been awarded numerous prizes, including the 2016 Baillie Gifford Prize and the 2018 <em>Prix Montaigne.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>He is also a contributor to the <em><a title=\"Financial Times\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Financial_Times\">Financial Times<\/a><\/em>, <em><a title=\"The Guardian\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_Guardian\">The Guardian<\/a><\/em>, <em><a title=\"London Review of Books\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/London_Review_of_Books\">London Review of Books<\/a> <\/em>and <em><a title=\"Vanity Fair (magazine)\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Vanity_Fair_(magazine)\">Vanity Fair<\/a><\/em>, Sands recent work includes the BBC film <em>My Nazi legacy: What our Fathers Did<\/em> (2015, with Horst W\u00e4chter and Hans Frank) and a BBC Podcast series, <em>The Ratline<\/em> (2018, about the unexplained death of Otto W\u00e4chter).<\/p>","protected":false},"featured_media":2224,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_relevanssi_hide_post":"","_relevanssi_hide_content":"","_relevanssi_pin_for_all":"","_relevanssi_pin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_unpin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_include_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_exclude_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_no_append":"","_relevanssi_related_not_related":"","_relevanssi_related_posts":"","_relevanssi_noindex_reason":""},"news-kategrie":[48],"class_list":["post-2222","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news-kategrie-news"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Philipp Sands: RATLINES - Kreisky Forum<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.kreisky-forum.org\/en\/news\/philipp-sands-ratlines\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Philipp Sands: RATLINES - Kreisky Forum\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"How Justice got politicized and what to do against it Philipp Sands, British and French lawyer at Matrix Chambers, and Professor at University College London, is President of English PEN. 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