Associate Professor Andrew Sanger

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Andrew is an Associate Professor of International Law at the University of Cambridge, a Fellow of the Lauterpacht Centre for International Law, and a Fellow, Director of Studies in Law and Dean of College at Corpus Christi College.

Andrew went to a state comprehensive secondary school before reading Philosophy and Law at Cambridge (Selwyn College). He went to the London School of Economics for an LLM in Public International Law before returning to Cambridge for a PhD. He was previously a Junior Research Fellow at the Lauterpacht Centre for International Law and a Junior Research Lecturer at Newnham College. In 2016, he was a Visiting Scholar at the University of California, Berkeley School of Law. He presented his research at the Tenth Annual Penn-Stanford International Faculty Forum, Stanford Law School and the NYU/Nottingham/Melbourne, Fifth Annual Junior Faculty Forum in International Law. From 2020-2022, Andrew was the Academic Secretary of the Faculty of Law and a Faculty Officer. In 2022, he was awarded the Student-Led Teaching Award for Small-Group Teaching (Arts, Humanities & Social Sciences); in 2023, he was a Finalist for the Oxford University Press Law Teacher of the Year Award; and in 2024, he was awarded the University of Cambridge Pilkington Prize for Excellence in Teaching.

Andrew is a Senior Fellow at Melbourne Law School and teaches on the Melbourne Law Masters. He is also a Research Collaborator on the Laureate Program in Global Corporations and International Law, a member of the Transnational Association of Legal Scholars, and a Note Editor for the Cambridge Law Journal.

Andrew teaches and supervises in the areas of international law and global governance, including the regulation of global corporations, business and human rights, and the law on the use of force. He advises states, international organisations, and NGOs on questions of international law, and he is a member of legal teams in cases currently before the International Court of Justice and in arbitral proceedings (inter-state and state-corporation). He also provides advice and legal training to government officials and practitioners.

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