Patrick Thornberry Member of the Institute's Ring of Friends

I. CURRENT POSITION

• Professor of International Law at Keele University, UK
• Fellow of Kellogg College, University of Oxford
• Member of CERD - the (UN) Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination- since 2001 and the rapporteur of that Committee.
• Former chairman of Minority Rights Group International (1999-2002)

II. MAIN ACTIVITIES

RESEARCH:

• minority rights
• indigenous peoples
• self-determination
• racial discrimination

TEACHING:

Teaches at the Keele University and the University of Oxford.

III. PUBLICATIONS

His principal publications include International Law and the Rights of Minorities (Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1991), Indigenous Peoples and Human Rights (Manchester University Press, 2004), and (with M.A. Martin Estebanez), Minority Rights in Europe (Strasbourg, Council of Europe Press, 2004).

Current writing projects include an analytical commentary on the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination for Oxford University Press.

In 2006 honoured by HM the Queen with a CMG (Companion of St. Michael and St. George) for services to international human rights, on the recommendation of the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs.