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Sir Nigel S. Rodley in 2015

Sir Nigel Simon Rodley KBE (born Rosenfeld; 1 December 1941 – 25 January 2017) was an international lawyer and professor.

Personal life

Rodley was born in the West Riding of Yorkshire on 1 December 1941 to Hans Israel Rosenfeld and Rachel (née Kantorowitz). His parents later changed their name to Rodley. His father – who served in the British Army under the name John Peter Rodley – was killed in action in the Netherlands in September 1944. He was educated at Clifton College where he was a member of Polack's, the Jewish boarding house. He was of Jewish descent.^[1]

As well as his native English, he spoke French, German, and Spanish.

Rodley married Lynette Bates in Leeds in 1967. He died aged 75 on 25 January 2017.^[2]

Professional positions

Rodley was:

• a member of the UN Human Rights Committee, a body of 18 human rights experts that monitors UN member states' compliance with the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights(between 2001 and 2016), and


• a Commissioner of the International Commission of Jurists,


• a founding member and former Executive Committee Vice-Chairman of INTERIGHTS: International Centre for the Legal Protection of Human Rights.^[3]
  


• a member of the Executive Committee of the David Davies Memorial Institute of International Studies.^[4]
  


• a trustee of Freedom from Torture.


• a member of the International Independent Group of Eminent Persons, (IIGEP), a group of experts invited by the President of Sri Lanka Mahinda Rajapaksa to observe the workings of a Presidential Commission of Inquiry into serious Human Rights violations in Sri Lanka.

Education

Rodley has degrees from:

• 
  LLD – Dalhousie University, 2000 (honorary)


• PhD – University of Essex, 1992


• 
  LLM – New York University, 1970


• LLM – Columbia University, 1965


• 
  LLB – University of Leeds, 1963

Academic posts

Most recently, he was:

• Professor of Law and Chair of the Human Rights Centre,^[5] University of Essex, having taught there since 1990.

He had formerly taught at:

• 
  Dalhousie University,


• the Graduate Faculty of the New School for Social Research (New York), and


• the London School of Economics.

Former positions

He was formerly:

• 
  UN Special Rapporteur on torture, serving in this capacity from 1993 to 2001,


• working at UN Headquarters in New York City,


• for Amnesty International, Legal Advisor and Head of the Legal and Intergovernmental Organisations Office (1973–1990),

Publications

Published works include:

• (with Matt Pollard) The Treatment of Prisoners under International Law (3rd edition, 2009);


• (with Matt Pollard) "Criminalisation of Torture: State Obligations under the United Nations Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment" 2006[2] European Human Rights Law Review 115 (2006);


• 
  The UN Human Rights Machinery and International Criminal Law, in Lattimer and Sands (eds.), Justice for Crimes against Humanity (2003, Hart Publishing);


• "The Definition(s) of Torture in International Law" in Current Legal Problems. p467 (2002)


• 
  The Treatment of Prisoners under International Law (1st edition 1987, 2nd edition 1999);


• 
  Impunity of Human Rights (1998);


• (co-ed with Y Danieli and L Weisaeth) International Responses to Traumatic Stress (1995);


• (ed) To Loose the Bands of Wickedness – International Intervention in Defence of Human Rights (1992);


• (with J I Domniguez, B Wood and R A Falk) Enhancing Global Human Rights (1979);


• (co-ed with C N Ronning) International Law in the Western Hemisphere (1974);

In 2010, Routledge published The Delivery of Human Rights: Essays in Honour of Professor Sir Nigel Rodley, edited by his colleagues Geoff Gilbert, Francoise Hampson, and Clara Sandoval.

Lectures

• 
  United Nations Treaty and Charter-based Human Rights Bodies: Competitive or Complementary? in the Lecture Series of the United Nations Audiovisual Library of International Law
  

Awards

• Recipient of the American Society of International Law's 2005 Goler T. Butcher Medal [1] for distinguished work in human rights.


• A KBE in recognition of his services to human rights and international law (1998).

References

External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Nigel Rodley.

• University of Essex Human Rights Centre – Staff listing


• Department of Law listing


• ICJ listing


• UN HCHR listing


• Bahrain Authorities Failed in Implementing Report’s Recommendations – BICI member Prof. Rodley