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Philippe Sands [UK]
Philippe Sands is a Franco-British lawyer and Professor at University College London. He is the author of several books and won numerous prizes for his literary début East West Street: On the Origins of Genocide and Crimes against Humanity (2016). Author of seventeen books on international law, Sands served as president of English PEN from February 2018 to April 2023.