Sir Nigel Rodley joined participants of our LL.M. in International Law in Geneva, delivering a 2-day intensive course on the international human rights protection system, as part of an ongoing series of intensive trainings integrated into the LL.M. degree programme.
This particular course explored the development of human rights machinery at the international level, compared the operation of these various human rights protection systems and analysed the extent to which the treaty-body system and the Charter-based system work as systems. Participants also learned how these systems interact with human rights protection at the regional level.
Sir Rodley is currently serving as President of the International Commission of Jurists. Since 2001 he has been a Member of the UN Human Rights Committee, established under the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, and served as its Chairperson (2013-2014). From 1993 to 2001, he served as Special Rapporteur on Torture of the UN Commission on Human Rights.
In 1998 he was knighted in the Queen's New Year's Honours list for services to Human Rights and International Law. He was a joint recipient of the American Society of International Law's 2005 Goler T. Butcher Medal for distinguished work in human rights, and is Professor and Chair of the Human Rights Centre at the University of Essex.
The LLM cohort have already benefitted from a similar intensive course on the UN System, given by Professor Nicolas Michel, former UN Under-Secretary General for Legal Affairs. An upcoming third intensive course in the series will be delivered by former Judge of the International Court of Justice, Professor Bruno Simma, on the topic of State Responsibility.
More about the LL.M in Internatioanl Law at the Graduate Institute, Geneva.