William A. Schabas

William A. Schabas is Professor of International Law at Middlesex University, London. He is also Professor of International Human Law and Human Rights at Leiden University, Professor Emeritus of Human Rights Law at the National University of Ireland, Galway, and an invited visiting scholar at the Paris School of International Affairs.

Recognized as a leading expert on international human rights law, international criminal law, genocide and capital punishment, he is the author of more than 20 books and 350 journal articles on these issues. He is also Editor Emeritus of Criminal Law Forum, the quarterly journal of the International Society for the Reform of Criminal Law.

Professor Schabas was a member of the Sierra Leone Truth and Reconciliation Commission. He also worked as a consultant on capital punishment for the UN Office of Drugs and Crime, and drafted the 2010 and 2015 reports of the UN Secretary-General on the status of the death penalty.

He is an Officer of the Order of Canada, a Member of the Royal Irish Academy and he has been awarded the Vespasian V. Pella Medal for International Criminal Justice by the Association Internationale de Droit Pénal.

Professor Schabas holds BA and MA degrees in History from the University of Toronto, and LLB, LLM and LLD degrees from the Université de Montréal, as well as honorary doctorates in Law from several universities.