Prof Ben Saul
Prof Ben Saul
Professor Ben Saul is Challis Chair of International Law at the University of Sydney and the United Nations Special Rapporteur on human rights and counter-terrorism (from November 2023).
He has taught at Harvard, Oxford, The Hague and Xiamen Academies of International Law, and in Italy, India, Nepal, and Cambodia. He has been a visiting professor at the Max Planck Institute for International Law and the Raoul Wallenberg Institute for Human Rights. He has published 20 books and hundreds of scholarly articles, including the books Defining Terrorism in International Law (2006), the Oxford Commentary on the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (2014) (awarded a Certificate of Merit by the American Society of International Law), Research Handbook on International Law and Terrorism (2020), and Oxford Guide to International Humanitarian Law (2020). He is an elected Fellow of the Australian Academy of Social Sciences, and formerly an Associate Fellow at the Royal Institute of International Affairs (Chatham House) in London and the International Centre for Counter-Terrorism in The Hague. Ben has advised United Nations bodies, governments, militaries and security agencies, and NGOs; practiced in international tribunals; undertaken missions in over 35 countries; and appears frequently in the international media, including writing opinion for The New York Times. He has a doctorate from Oxford and honours degrees in Arts and Law from Sydney.
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