3rd Annual Irving Abella Lecture
Philippe Sands explores the subject of ‘impunity’, a central theme of 38 Londres Street, the third in his East West Street trilogy, and of our times. He draws on the twin tales of General Augusto Pinochet’s arrest in London, his connections with Walther Rauff, an SS wanted for mass murder who fetched up as the manager of a king crab cannery working in Punta Arenas, in Chilean Patagonia, and the recent US Supreme Court ruling on the presumptive immunity of a former US president for all ‘official acts’.
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Speaker
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Philippe SandsPhilippe Sands was born in London in 1960 and studied Law at the University of Cambridge. His book East West Street was the winner of the Baillie Gifford Prize for Non Fiction 2016, the British Book Awards Non-fiction Book of the Year 2017 and 2018 Prix Montaigne He is also the author of Lawless World: America and the Making and Breaking of Global Rules, which inspired a stage play (Called to Account, Tricycle Theatre) and a television film (The Trial of Tony Blair, Channel 4). He writes regularly for the press and serves as a commentator for the BBC, CNN and other radio and television producers. His BBC Storyville film My Nazi Legacy: What Our Fathers Did premiered in April 2015 at the Tribecca Film Festival. Sands co-wrote a podcast of the same name for the BBC. Sands lectures around the world and has taught at New York University and been a visiting professor at the University of Toronto, the University of Melbourne, and the Université de Paris I (Sorbonne). He was appointed a Queen’s Counsel in 2003. The Ratline: Love, Lies and Justice on the Trail of a Nazi Fugitive, was published in 2020 and The Last Colony: A Tale of Exile, Justice and Britain’s Colonial Legacy in 2022. He is currently Professor of Law at University College London and a barrister and arbitrator at 11 King’s Bench Walk. He served as president of English PEN and is on the board of the Hay Festival of Arts and Literature.
