Declaration Signatories
Name of signatory | Affiliation |
Professor Dapo Akande | Faculty of Public International Law, University of Oxford, Member of the UN International Law Commission 2023-2027 |
Professor Lord David Alton, KCSG, KCMCO | former MP 1979-1997, former Professor of Citizenship, and Independent Crossbench Member of the House of Lords. |
Lord David Anderson KBE QC | Barrister and Cross-Bench Member of House of Lords, former Independent Reviewer of Terrorism Legislation 2011-2017, former monitor at Council of Europe Human Rights Division, Visiting Professor, Centre of European Law at King’s College London |
Rosalia Arteago Serrano | former President of Ecuador 1997 |
Paul Auster | New York, Writer |
Robert Badinter | former Minister of Justice of France 1981-1986, former President of the Constitutional Council 1986-1995 and a former member of the Senate 1995-2011), former President of the Court of Conciliation and Arbitration, OSCE 1995-2013 |
Sali Berisha | former President of Albania 1992-1997, Prime Minister 2005-2013 |
Tom Blackmore | Grandson of David Maxwell Fyfe |
Professor Laurence Boisson de Chazournes | Faculty of International Law, University of Geneva |
Nicola Bonucci | former Director for Legal Affairs, Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development |
Professor Hamit Bozarslan | Ecole des hautes études en sciences sociales, Paris, France |
Sir Nicolas Bratza | former President of the European Court of Human Rights |
Robert Brinkley CMG | former British Ambassador to Ukraine |
Claire Brisset | former Ombudsperson for Children, France |
Professor Timothy Brook | Faculty of History, University of British Columbia, Canada |
Rt. Hon Gordon Brown | former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom 2007-2010 |
Kjell M. Brygfjeld | Attorney, Advokatfirma Endresen Brygfjeld Torall |
Professor Olga Butkevych | President of the Ukrainian Association of International Law |
Professor Volodymyr Butkevych | former Judge of the European Court of Human Rights |
Landon Butler | former Deputy Chief of Staff for President Carter |
Micheline Calmy-Rey | former President of Switzerland 2007 and 2011 |
Fernando Henrique Cardoso | former President of Brazil 1995-2003 |
Javier Cercas | Barcelona, Writer |
Hikmet Cetin | former Minister of Foreign Affairs of Turkey 1991-1994, Speaker of the Grand National Assembly 1997-1999, Deputy Prime Minister 1995 |
Laura Chinchilla | former President of Costa Rica 2010-2014 |
Emil Constantinescu | former President of Romania 1996-2000 |
Hans Corell | former Under-Secretary-General for Legal Affairs and Legal Counsel of the United Nations |
Bruno Cotte | former President of the Pre-Trial Chamber at the International Criminal Court |
Herman De Croo | Minister of State (Belgium), Honorary Speaker of the House, former Cabinet Member and elected MP |
Olivier De Schutter | UN Special Rapporteur on Extreme Poverty and Human Rights, Professor at UCLouvain (Belgium) and at Sciences Po (Paris). |
Jean-Marie Delarue | former Inspector General of the Places of Deprivation of Liberty, France |
Vincent Delbos | Honorary Judge, France |
Ruiz Devesa | Member of the European Parliament (Socialist and Democrats) |
Dr. Mark Ellis | Executive Director, International Bar Association |
Claudia Escobar Mejia | former Judge, Guatemala, Distinguished Visiting Professor George Mason University |
Benjamin Ferencz | former Prosecutor Nuremberg Military Tribunal |
Don Ferencz | former Chair of the Global Institute for the Prevention of the Crime of Aggression |
Dr Élise Féron | Senior Research Fellow, Tampere Peace Research Institute, Tampere University, Finland |
Jan Fisher | former Prime Minister of the Czech Republic 2009-2010 |
Hon Yves Fortier PC, CC, OQ, QC | Arbitrator and International Lawyer, Montreal |
Isabelle Fouchard | Chargée de Recherches, CNRS-HDR |
Eduardo Frei Ruiz-Tagle | former President of Chile 1994-2000 |
Professor Emeritus Willem Frijhoff | Faculty of Cultural History, G.Ph. Verhagen chair at Erasmus University Rotterdam, The Netherlands |
Stephen Fry | London, Writer |
Professor Hannah R. Gary | US Fulbright Scholar, University of Olso Law PluriCourts Centre and USC Gould School of Law |
Professor Timothy Garton Ash | European Studies and Isaiah Berlin Professorial Fellow, St Antony's College, Oxford |
Robert Gelbard | former US Ambassador, Special Representative of President Clinton for the Balkans, former Assistant Secretary of State |
Rt. Hon Nus Ghani MP | Conservative MP for Wealden, BEIS Select Committee Member UK, Delegate to NATO Parliamentary Assembly |
Professor Emeritus Geneviève Giudicelli-Delage | Faculty of Law, University Paris 1, France |
Dame Audrey Glover | former Director of the Office of Democratic Institutions and Human Rights , OSCE |
Professor Mykola Gnatovsky | Faculty of International Law, Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv, former President of the European Committee for the Prevention of Torture and Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment 2015–2021 |
Richard Goldstone | former Chief Prosecutor International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia; former Judge Constitutional Court of South Africa |
Felipe González | former Prime Minister of Spain 1982-1996 |
Professor Ryan Goodman | Anne and Joel Ehrenkranz Professor of Law, Co-Editor-in-Chief, Just Security, Co-Director, Reiss Center on Law and Security, NYU School of Law |
Professor Axel Gosseries | FNRS & UCLouvain, Hoover Chair |
Philippe Gosseries | Emeritus Judge, Court of Cassation, Belgium |
Dr Catherine Gousseff | Historian, CNRS (French National Center for Research), Paris |
Dalia Grybauskaitė | former President of Lithuania 2009-2019 |
Professor Steven Haines | Public International Law, University of Greenwich |
Baroness Brenda Hale QC | former President of the UK Supreme Court 2017-2020 |
Tarja Halonen | former President of Finland 2000-2012 |
Toomas Hendrik Ilves | former President of Estonia 2006-2016 |
Serhiy Holovaty | Acting Chairman of the Constitutional Court of Ukraine, President of the Ukrainian Legal Foundation |
Dr Devika Hovell | Associate Professor, Department of Law, London School of Economics |
Murray Hunt | Director, Bingham Centre for the Rule of Law, British Institute of International and Comparative Law, Visiting Professor in Human Rights Law, University of Oxford |
Osvaldo Hurtado | former President of Ecuador 1981-1984 |
Siri Hustvedt | New York, Writer |
Claude Jorda | former President of the ICTY and former judge of the International Criminal Court |
Janet Kaplan | Poet |
Mats Karlsson | Vice-President of the World Bank 1999-2002 |
Professor Bruce Kawin | writer, Colorado |
Baroness Helena Kennedy QC | Director, International Bar Association's Human Rights Institute, Barrister and Member of the House of Lords |
Kerry Kennedy | President Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights |
Professor Emerita Catherine Kessedjian | University Panthéon-Assas Paris II |
Professor Pierre Klein | Director of the Centre for International Law, Université Libre de Bruxelles |
Dr Günter Krings | Member of Parliament, Germany |
Professor Justine Lacroix | Université Libre de Bruxelles, Centre de Théorie Politique, Brussels |
Zlatko Lagumdzija | former Prime Minister of Bosnia and Herzegovina 2001-2002, deputy Prime Minister 1993-1996, 2012-2015 |
Patrick Lawrence QC | Barrister, London |
Professor Emeritus Christine Lazerges | University Paris 1, former President of the Law Commission of the National Assembly, France |
Professor Philip Leach | Human Rights Law, Middlesex University |
Professor Christian Lequesne | Sciences Po, Paris, France |
Professor dr. Rianne Letschert | President, University of Maastricht, Professor of International Law and Victimology |
Linas Linkevičius | former Minister of Foreign Affairs of Lithuania |
Igor Luksic | former Prime Minister of Montenegro 2010-2012, Minister of Foreign Affairs 2012-2016 |
Ketil Lund | former Justice of the Supreme Court of Norway, Commissioner of International Commission of Jurists |
Professor Margaret Macmillan | Faculty of History, Toronto and Oxford |
Sir John Major KG CH | former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom 1990-1997 |
Professor Virginia Mantouvalou | Faculty of Law, UCL |
Moussa Mara | former Prime Minister of Mali 2014-2015 |
Giorgi Margvelashvili | former President of Georgia 2013-2018 |
H. E. Francis Martin O’Donnel | Ambassador of Sovereign Military Order of Malta to Slovak Republic 2009-2013 & UN Resident Coordinator in Ukraine 2004-2009 |
Dr Carrie McDougall | Senior Lecturer in Law, University of Melbourne, former Legal Advisor andAssistant Director of International Law, Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT) |
Rexhep Meidani | former President of Albania 1997-2002 |
Aude Merlin | Lecturer in political science, Université libre de Bruxelles, Belgium |
Professor Theodor Meron CMG | Faculty of Law, University of Oxford, former President of the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia and of the UN International Residual Mechanism for Criminal Tribunals |
Professor Aline Miron | Faculty of International Law, Anger University |
Howard Morrison | former ICC Judge |
Joseph Muscat | former Prime Minister of Malta 2013-2020 |
Professor Egbert Myjer | former Judge of the European Court of Human Rights (elected in respect of the Netherlands) 2004-2012Professor Boldiszar Nagy |
Professor Boldiszar Nagy | Department of International Relations, Central European University |
Bujar Nishani | former President of Albania 2012-2017 |
Professor Dr. Angelika Nußberger | Law, University of Cologne; former Vice-President, European Court of Human Rights 2017-2019 |
Michael O’Boyle | former Registrar, European Court of Human Rights 2006-2015 |
Professor Raphaële Parizot | Faculty of Private Law, Paris-Nanterre University |
Yuri Parkhomenko | Parter, International Litigation and Arbitration Department, Foley Hoag LLP |
Žygimantas Pavilionis | Member of the Seima Lithuania, Chair of Foreign Relations Committee of Lithuania, International Secretary of Homeland Union |
Professor Mathilde Philip-Gay | Université Jean Moulin Lyon 3, Co-director of the Center for Constitutional Law (CDC) |
Professor Xavier Philippe | Faculty of Public Law, University Paris 1, France |
Professor Chip Pitts | Lecturer in Law, Stanford Law School, Professorial Lecturer, Oxford University, Professorial Fellow, SMU Law Institute of the Americas |
Rosen Plevneliev | former President of Bulgaria 2012-2017 |
Jorge Fernando Quiroga | former President of Bolivia 2001-2002 |
Iveta Radicova | former Prime Minister Slovakia 2010-2012 |
Sir Shridath Ramphal GCMG AC ONZ OE OCC QC | Guyana |
Shalini Randeria | President, Central European University, Vienna |
Stephen J. Rapp | Senior Visiting Fellow of Practice, Blavatnik School of Government, former US Ambassador at Large for War-Crimes Issues, former Chief Prosecutor of the Special Court for Sierra Leone |
Professor Javaid Rehman | International Human Rights Law, Brunel University, London |
Paul Reichler | Partner, International Litigation and Arbitration Department, Foley Hoag LLP |
Jean-Maurice Ripert | Ambassador of France, former Ambassador of France to the United Nations 2007-2009, Federation of Russia 2013-2017, China 2017-2019, former Under Secretary General of the United Nations 2009-2010 |
Professor Damien Roets | Faculty of Private Law, University of Limoges, France |
Petre Roman | Prime Minister of Romania 1989-1991, Speaker of the Parliament 1996-1999, Minister of Foreign Affairs 1999-2000 |
Professor Valerie Rosoux | Research Director FNRS, Professor at UCLouvain |
Kevin Rudd | former Prime Minister of Australia |
Professor Helene Ruiz Fabri | Director, Max Planck Institute Luxembourg |
Mikhael Saakashvili | former President of Georgia 2008-2018 |
Professor Philippe Sands QC | University College London, Barrister, Matrix Chambers |
Eric Randol Schoenberg | American Lawyer, Genealogist, California |
Professor Martin Schulze Wessel | Faculty of History, LMU Munich/University of Oxford |
Ismail Serageldin | former Vice-President of the World Bank 1992-2000 |
Professor Thomas Serrier | Université de Lille, France |
Professor Yuval Shany | Hebrew University Jerusalem |
Anjolie Singh | International Lawyer, Legal Counsel, Delhi |
Iegor Soboliev | former member of Ukrainian Parliament |
Professor Joseph E. Stiglitz | Nobel Laureate in economics, University Professor at Columbia University |
Professor Barbara Stollberg-Rilinger | Rector, Berlin Institute for Advanced Study |
Professor Lyndsey Stonebridge | Faculty of Humanities and Human Rights, University of Birmingham |
Petar Stoyanov | former President of Bulgaria 1997-2002 |
Professor Christian Tams | International Law, University of Glasgow |
Professor Emeritus Catherine Teitgen-Colly | Faculty of Public Law, University Paris 1, France |
Professor Jean-Marc Thouvenin | Secretary General of the Hague Academy of International Law, Professor, University of Paris-Nanterre |
Eka Tkeshelashvili | former Deputy Prime Minister of Georgia 2010-2012, Minister of Foreign Affairs 2008 |
Marie Toussaint | Jurist, Member of European Parliament (Green) |
Professor Kimberley Trapp | University College London |
Peter D. Trooboff | Lawyer, Washington, D.C. |
Elbegdorj Tsakhia | former President of Mongolia 2009-2017 |
Professor dr. Françoise Tulkens | UCLouvain (Belgium), former Vice President European Court of Human Rights 2011-2012 |
Malcolm Turnbull AC | former Prime Minister of Australia 2015-2018 |
Raimonds Vejonis | former President of Latvia 2015-2019 |
Vaira Vike-Freiberga | former President of Latvia 1999-2007 |
Professor Dr. Jakob Vogel | Centre d'histoire, Sciences Po, Paris, France |
Hon. Mark Lawrence Wolf | Senior United States District Judge, Chair of Integrity Initiatives |
Professor Farhana Yamin | University of Arts, London |
Kateryna Yushchenko | former First Lady of Ukraine 2005-2010 |
Viktor Yushchenko | former President of Ukraine 2005-2010 |
Professor Dainius Žalimas | former President of the Constitutional Court of Lithuania |
Valdis Zatlers | former President of Latvia 2007-2011 |
