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Explosive analysis of the consequences of British and US foreign policy on global international order. America is undermining the global legal order by promoting its economic interests at the expense of human rights and the
environment. Based on the author's participation in leading international cases including the British detainees at Guantanamo. BBC radio 4 series on same theme to be presented by author to coincide with our publication
Includes detailed critique of the 'legality' of the war in Iraq. Phillipe Sands QC is a practising barrister and a professor of international law at University College, London. He writes regularly for the broadsheets and has been involved in many high profile cases at the World Court.