Patrick Thornberry Author

Patrick Thornberry CMG is Emeritus Professor of International Law at Keele University, an Honorary Professor of Law at the University of Nottingham, and a former Visiting Fellow of Kellogg College, University of Oxford. Professor Thornberry was a member of CERD-the UN Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination-from 2001 to 2014 and was rapporteur of that Committee from 2002 until 2008. He is a former Chairman of Minority Rights Group International and has acted as consultant and adviser to a range of international organizations. Patrick Thornberry is the author of numerous works in the field of minority rights, rights of indigenous peoples, and racial discrimination.