Position(s) at the Institute

Professor, International Law

Profile

PhD, European University Institute, Florence
Andrew Clapham is Professor of Public International Law at the Graduate Institute, Geneva and the Director of the Geneva Academy of International Humanitarian Law and Human Rights. He teaches international human rights law and public international law. Prior to coming to the Institute in 1997, he was the Representative of Amnesty International at the United Nations in New York. Andrew Clapham has worked as Special Adviser on Corporate Responsibility to High Commissioner for Human Rights Mary Robinson, and Adviser on International Humanitarian Law to Sergio Vieira de Mello, Special Representative of the UN Secretary-General in Iraq.

Areas of expertise

• Human rights
• International courts and tribunals
• International humanitarian law
• International organisations, UN

• The international obligations of non-state actors under human rights law and under international humanitarian law

Selected publications

• "Corporations and Criminal Complicity‟ in Human Rights, Corporate Complicity and Disinvestment, G. Nystuen, A. Follesdal, and O. Mestad (eds) Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, (2011), 222-242.
• Kort om mänskliga rättigheter Swedish version of “Human Rights: A Very Short Introduction” Trans Roland Poirier Martinsson, Fri Tanke, Stockholm (2011) 236p.
• Korean Version of "Human Rights a Very Short Introduction" Trans Yong-Hyun Park. Seoul: Hankyoreh Publishing Co (2010) 255p
• İnsan Haklari Turkish Version of Human Rights a Very Short Introduction" Trans Hasan Gur. Dost Kitabevi Yayinlari, Ankara (2010) 227p
• Lessico dei diritti umani (Vita e Pensiero, Milan) 2009 with Susan marks, translation of International Human Rights Lexicon
• Realizing the Right to Health (Zurich: Rüffer and Rub) co-edited with Mary Robinson (2009) 576p
• Human Rights: A Very Short Introduction (Oxford, Oxford University Press) (2007) 140p
• Human Rights Obligations of Non-State Actors, (Oxford, Oxford University Press) (2006) 650p
• International Human Rights Lexicon, with Susan Marks, (Oxford, Oxford University Press) (2005) 460p

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