United Nations Special Rapporteur on torture
Rodley has degrees from:
Doctor of Laws - Dalhousie University, 2000 (honorary)
Doctor of Philosophy - University of Essex, 1992
Master of Laws - New York University, 1970
Master of Laws - Columbia University, 1965
Bachelor of Laws - University of Leeds, 1963.
Rodley is: a Commissioner of the International Commission of Jurists, a founding member and former Executive Committee Vice-Chairman of INTERIGHTS: International Centre for the Legal Protection of Human Rights. a trustee of Freedom from Torture. He is currently: Professor of Law and Chair of the Human Rights Centre, University of Essex, having taught there since 1990. He has formerly taught at: Dalhousie University, the Graduate Faculty of the New School for Social Research (New York), and the London School of Economics.
He was formerly: United Nations Special Rapporteur on torture, serving in this capacity from 1993 to 2001, working at United Nations Headquarters in New York, for Amnesty International, Legal Advisor and Head of the Legal and Intergovernmental Organisations Office (1973–1990), Rodley is of Jewish descent.
He speaks, apart from his native English, French, German, and Spanish.
A member of the United Nations Human Rights Committee, a body of 18 human rights experts that monitors United Nations member states" compliance with the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, and
a member of the Executive Committee of the David Davies Memorial Institute of International Studies. A member of the International Independent Group of Eminent Persons, (IIGEP), a group of experts invited by the President of Sri Lanka Mahinda Rajapaksa to observe the workings of a Presidential Commission of Inquiry into serious Human Rights violations in Sri Lanka.
