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Professor Andrew Clapham

Called 1985
Andrew Clapham
Andrew is Director of the Geneva Academy of International Humanitarian Law and Human Rights and a Professor of Public International Law at the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies in Geneva. He specialises in international human rights and has acted in several ECHR cases. He has been a special adviser on Corporate Responsibility to the United Nations (UN) High Commissioner for Human Rights, Mary Robinson, and was adviser on international humanitarian law to the UN Secretary-General’s Special Representative in Iraq, Sergio Vieira de Mello. He was the Representative of Amnesty International at the United Nations in New York from 1991-1997, and has participated as the representative of Amnesty International in numerous inter-governmental meetings as well as in Amnesty International missions to Mozambique, Rwanda, Burundi and Liberia. Andrew appeared in the case of Osman v UK before the European Court of Human Rights.

Called 1985, Andrew has a practice in international human rights and humanitarian law, international criminal law, and UN law. He has advised on cases before the European Court of Human Rights and acted as legal adviser and representative for the Government of Solomon Islands for the drafting of the Statute of the International Criminal Court (1998). 
 
As Professor of Public International Law at the Graduate Institute of International Studies in Geneva, Andrew teaches human rights law, humanitarian law and public international law. 
 
He is co-author, with Susan Marks, of International Human Rights Lexicon (Oxford University Press, 2005), the companion website provides access to treaties, judgments and other documents referred to in the book. Another book Human Rights Obligations of Non-State Actors (Oxford University Press, 2006) examines the legal protection of human rights in situations where the threats to the enjoyment of human rights come from non-state actors rather than directly from state agents. Andrew’s latest book Human Rights: A Very Short introduction (Oxford University Press, 2007) provides a quick overview of where the human rights movement came from and where it is heading.
 
For a list of Andrew's other publications and his CV, click here.
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