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Andrew Clapham profile

Andrew CLAPHAM

PROFESSOR, INTERNATIONAL LAW
Spoken languages
English, French
Areas of expertise
  • Human rights
  • International courts and tribunals
  • International humanitarian law
  • International organisations, UN
  • Armed conflicts, violence
  • Arms control, disarmament
  • Corporate responsibility
  • Humanitarian action, intervention
  • International law (public, private)
  • Terrorism, crime

PROFILE

 

PhD, European University Institute, Florence

Andrew Clapham is Professor of International Law at the Graduate Institute. He was the first Director of the Geneva Academy of International Humanitarian Law and Human Rights (June 2006 - July 2014). He teaches international human rights law, the laws of war, 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. He was elected as a Commissioner of the International Commission of Jurists in 2013. He served as a member of the UN Commission on Human Rights in South Sudan from 2017 to 2023.

 

EXPERTISE DETAILS

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

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
 

ACTIVITIES

  • Member of the UN Commission on Human Rights in South Sudan 
  • Honorary Member of the International Commission of Jurists
Human Rights AC
Andrew Clapham

Human Rights Book

Andrew Clapham War book
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Publications

Andrew Clapham

Office hours

Geneva Academy of International Humanitarian Law and Human Rights