Prof Philip Leach

Philip Leach is Professor of Human RightsLaw at Middlesex University in London. Until March 2022 he was Director of the European Human Rights Advocacy Centre(EHRAC) also based at Middlesex University, which litigates human rights casesarising in Russia, Ukraine, Georgia, Azerbaijan and Armenia. He researches andpublishes widely in the field of international human rights law and practice.He is author of ‘Taking a Case to the European Court of Human Rights’, 4^thed., Oxford University Press, 2017 and ‘Parliaments and the European Court ofHuman Rights’ (co-authored with Dr. Alice Donald), Oxford University Press,2016. Philip is Co-Supervisor of the Turkey Human Rights LitigationSupport Project and Vice-Chair of the EuropeanImplementation Network (EIN). He was a member of the Independent AdvisoryPanel on Deaths in Custody from 2009-2015 and a member of the Independent Reviewinto Self-inflicted Deaths in NOMS Custody of 18-24 year olds from 2014 to 2015. He wasappointed Specialist Adviser to the Joint Committee on Human Rights for itsinquiry into mental health and deaths in prison in 2016-2017.

He is a member of Matrix Chambers, London.