Malcolm Evans | |
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Principal of Regent's Park College, Oxford | |
Assumed office 2023 | |
Preceded by | Robert Ellis |
Personal details | |
Born | Malcolm D. Evans 1959 |
Alma mater | Regent's Park College,Oxford |
Profession | English legal scholar |
Awards | Knight Commander of the Order of St Michael and St George (KCMG) Order of the British Empire (OBE) |
Academic work | |
Discipline | Law |
Institutions | University of Bristol [Faculty of Social Sciences and Law,University of Bristol] |
Sir Malcolm David Evans, KCMG , OBE , FLSW (born 1959) is an English legal scholar. He is currently Principal of Regent's Park College,Oxford,England and started in 2023.
Until 2023 Evans was Professor of Public International Law at the University of Bristol. He has worked extensively on human rights issues for numerous international bodies and NGOs.
His research interests include the law of the sea and the international protection of human rights,with particular focus on the freedom of religion (for which he was knighted in 2015) and the prevention of torture.
He studied law at Regent's Park College,Oxford (1979–82 and 1983–87) primarily for undergraduate and then for doctorate. He was appointed to a lectureship at the University of Bristol in 1988 and in 1999 was appointed Professor of Public International Law. He was Head of the School of Law 2003-05 before becoming Dean of the Faculty of Social Sciences and Law from xxxx-yyyy. In 2012 he was awarded an honorary fellowship by Bangor University Law School. [1]
He is a member of the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe Advisory Panel on Freedom of Religion and Belief;the International Law Association Human Rights Law and Practice Committee;and the Board of Management of the Association for the Prevention of Torture.
Among his many roles,Sir Malcolm has served as a member and,from 2011-2020 Evans chair of the United Nations Subcommittee for the Prevention of Torture. [2] In 2015 Evans was appointed as a member of the reconstituted panel of the Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse. [3] He was appointed Knight Commander of the Order of St Michael and St George (KCMG) in the 2016 New Year Honours for services to torture prevention and religious freedom. [4]
In 2020,he was elected a Fellow of the Learned Society of Wales. [5]
In June 2022 he was named as the new Principal of his former Permanent Private Hall Regent's Park College,Oxford. [6]
From June 2006 to June 2009 Professor Rachel Murray held a high profile AHRC funded project which examined the implementation of the Optional Protocol to the UN Convention against Torture. Professor Malcolm Evans was the joint grant holderThe culmination of the project was the publication of the book The Optional Protocol to the UN Convention Against Torture by the Oxford University Press. Over the three years of the project,there were some 150 interviews conducted with individuals from national governments,NHRIs,national NGOs and civil society organisations of nearly 30 countries. All the world regions were covered,selecting countries that have ratified OPCAT and already had established or were in the process of establishing their NPMs.
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