Mads Andenas, Ma, Dphil, PhD

Professor Mads Andenas is one of the independent UN Human Rights Mandate Holders and a member of the Working Group on Arbitrary Detention. He holds the degrees of Cand jur (Oslo), PhD (Cambridge) and MA and DPhil (Oxford). He has held senior academic appointments in the United Kingdom, including Director of the British Institute of International and Comparative Law, London, and Director of the Centre of European Law at King's College, London. He remains a Visiting Research Fellow of the...See more

Professor Mads Andenas is one of the independent UN Human Rights Mandate Holders and a member of the Working Group on Arbitrary Detention. He holds the degrees of Cand jur (Oslo), PhD (Cambridge) and MA and DPhil (Oxford). He has held senior academic appointments in the United Kingdom, including Director of the British Institute of International and Comparative Law, London, and Director of the Centre of European Law at King's College, London. He remains a Visiting Research Fellow of the Institute of European and Comparative Law, University of Oxford and a Senior Research Fellow at the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, School of Advanced Studies, University of London. He was a Visiting Professor at the University of Paris I (Sorbonne) in 2006 and the University of Rome La Sapienza in 2002 2009, in 2002 2003 held the Chaire W. J. Ganshof van der Meersch under the Fondation Philippe Wiener-Maurice Anspach at the Universit Libre de Bruxelles, and in 2005 was a Fellow of the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities and Social Sciences (NIAS). He has been the General Editor, and subsequently an Editor, of International and Comparative Law Quarterly and the General Editor of the European Business Law Review. He is a Knight Commander of the Ordine al Merito della Repubblica Italiana, a Knight of the French L gion d'honneur, a Bencher of an Honorary Fellow of the Society of Legal Studies (UK), a Fellow of the International Academy of Commercial and Consumer Law (where he is presently a member of the board), an Honorary Fellow of the British Institute of International and Comparative Law, and a Fellow of the Royal Society of the Arts. He was the Secretary General of the F d ration internationale de droit europ en from 2000 2002, the Hon Secretary of the UK Association of European Law from 1997 2008 and the Hon Secretary of the UK Committee of Comparative Law from 1999 2005. See less