Interview, Madrid 2009
Foundation of the International Academic Network against the death penalty
Center for Political and Constitutional Studies and UCLM.
Tribute edition to Nigel Rodley, who passed away on January 25 of this year 2017 and in gratitude for his participation in the founding Congress of the Academic Network against the Death Penalty (academicsforabolition.net) to support the birth of the International Commission Against Death Penalty (icomdp.org) that occurred in 2010.
Born in Yorkshire in 1941. His father Hans Israel Rosenfeld was killed fighting the Nazis in the Netherlands at the end of 1944. He studied law at Leeds and Columbia Universities. He was the first head of Amnesty International's legal department. He has been a Professor at the New School for Social Research and at the London School for Economics and since 1990 Professor at the University of Essex. He has been an advisor to various United Nations bodies, especially, Special Rappateur on torture (1993-2000) and later a member of the Human Rights Committee until 2016.
At the initiative of President Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero, a founding congress of the International Academic Network was held in December 2009 at the Center for Political and Constitutional Studies with the most qualified specialists in Human Rights from five continents, including Sergio García Ramírez, Mireille Delmás Marty, Cherif Bassiouni, William Schabas, Shizu Wang, Michael Radeled and Nigel Rodley himself. Throughout it, careful interviews were carried out by Marta Muñoz de Morales, Manuel Maroto and Domingo Ruiz, which later allowed the composition of the Audio-book "Still Killing” to train in abolition in Spanish, English and Arabic, which accompanies more than 12 books that have been published since then, most of which are available online on the portal www.academicsforabolition.net.
In gratitude for his participation and in his memory we publish the interview we did with him on the doctrine of the United Nations Human Rights Committee on the Death Penalty and of which he was a member and even its President.
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