Philip Alston

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Philip G. Alston is an international law scholar and human rights practitioner. He is John Norton Pomeroy Professor of Law at New York University School of Law, and co-Chair of the law school's Center for Human Rights and Global Justice. In human rights law, Alston has held a range of senior UN appointments for over two decades, including United Nations Special Rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions since 2004.Alston graduated from the University of Melbourne and from the University of California at Berkeley School of Law.His brother is the former Australian federal Cabinet minister and High Commissioner to the United Kingdom, Richard Alston.