Mads Andenæs

Who is Mads Andenæs?

Mads Andenas is a legal academic and the UN Special Rapporteur on arbitrary detention and the chair of the UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention. He is a professor at the Faculty of Law of the University of Oslo and the former Director of the British Institute of International and Comparative Law, London and the former Director of the Centre of European Law at King’s College, University of London.

He holds the degrees of cand.jur., PhD and MA and DPhil.

He is a Research Fellow of the Institute of European and Comparative Law, University of Oxford and a Senior Research Fellow at the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, School of Advanced Studies, University of London.

He has been Visiting Professor at University of Paris I in 2006 and University of Rome La Sapienza in 2002–9, in 2002–3 he held the Chaire W J Ganshof van der Meersch under the Fondation Philippe Wiener–Maurice Anspach at the Université Libre de Bruxelles and in 2005 he was a Fellow of Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities and Social Sciences. In 2006 he delivered the Annual Guido Carli Lecture at the University of LUISS Guido Carli, Rome. In 2008–9 he delivered a series of lectures at l'École normale Supérieure, Paris om human rights and comparative law.