Writing Migration

Philippe Sands QC is Professor of Law at University College London and Samuel & Judith Pisar Visiting Professor of Law at Harvard. He is a practising barrister at Matrix Chambers, appears frequently as counsel before the International Court of Justice and other international courts and tribunals, and sits as an international arbitrator.

He is author of Lawless World (2005) and Torture Team (2008) and numerous academic books on international law, and has contributed to the New York Review of Books, Vanity Fair, the Financial Times, The Guardian and the New York Times.

His latest books are East West Street: On the Origins of Crimes Against Humanity and Genocide (2016) (awarded the 2016 Baillie Gifford Prize, the 2017 British Book Awards Non-Fiction Book of the Year, and the 2018 Prix Montaigne) and The Ratline: Love, Lies and Justice on the Trail of a Nazi Fugitive (2020), also available as BBC and France Culture podcasts. His next book, The Last Colony: A Tale of Exile, Justice and Britain’s Colonial Legacy, will be published later this year.

Ian Sanjay Patel is an Assistant Professor in the School of Social Sciences, History and Philosophy at Birkbeck, University of London. His non-fiction writing has appeared in the New Statesman, the London Review of Books, and elsewhere. He completed his PhD at Queens’ College, University of Cambridge. His book, We're Here Because You Were There: Immigration and the End of Empire (Verso), is out in paperback in October. 

Colin Grant is an author of five books. They include Homecoming: Voices of the Windrush Generation, which was a BBC radio 4 Book of the Week and a Daily Telegraph Book of the year 2019.

As a producer for the BBC, Grant wrote and directed several radio drama documentaries including A Fountain of Tears: The Murder of Federico Garcia Lorca; and A History of the N Word.

Grant is the director of WritersMosaic, an innovative online platform for new writing and an initiative of the Royal Literary Fund.