Philippe Sands: International Law Is Not Dead, Absurd to Think So

Philippe Sands, lawyer and author of 'Calle Este-Oeste' and 'Calle Londres 38', argues that attempts to destroy multilateral rules will fail and that the international legal system continues to function in a long battle. He currently represents Gambia in a genocide case against Myanmar that could set a precedent for Israel, and is involved in creating a tribunal on crimes of aggression to judge the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Sands has spent decades uncovering and telling stories before courts in London, Strasbourg, and The Hague, in his books on the Iraq war, the Holocaust, Pinochet, and British colonialism in the Indian Ocean, and in hundreds of lectures explaining the legal and emotional origins of the debate between genocide and crimes against humanity.