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Public International Law

London (Bar)

13 Years Ranked

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International Human Rights Law

London (Bar)

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Provided by Amy Sander

UK Bar

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Amy is firmly established as one of the leading senior juniors in public international law (which she taught at Cambridge University).

Currently instructed by a broad range of States, Amy has extensive advocacy experience before various international forums. She has been instructed and appeared before the International Court of Justice in multiple cases (e.g., on behalf of the Republic of Cyprus, Japan, Kenya and Bolivia). In UNCLOS proceedings, she has acted on various inter-state matters (e.g., for the Maldives in its delimitation proceedings). Before the European Court of Human Rights, she is instructed on a range of issues, including on climate change (e.g., for the Applicants in Duarte Agostinho and Others v. Portugal).

Amy is on the A Panel of Junior Counsel to the Crown (the Attorney General’s Public International Law Panel). She is a member of the BIICL PIL Advisory Panel, project member of the European Legal Institute project on Climate Justice, Board Member of the YPILG, and was previously an Assistant Editor of the European Human Rights Reports. Amy is regularly invited as a guest speaker (e.g., the London International Law Conference (2022)).

Amy is co-author of the fourth edition of Law of the Sea (Churchill, Lowe and Sander: 2022). Other recent publications include a contribution in the Max Planck Encyclopedia of International Law (2022), co-author of an article on intervention before the ICJ (2022) and deep-sea mining (2023) and a paper in AJIL Unbound on professional conduct before the ICJ (2019).

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