Amy Sander
Essex Court Chambers
Amy is a barrister at Essex Court Chambers (London) specialising in public international law (PIL). She has appeared before the International Court of Justice in a large number of cases (e.g., recently in the advisory proceedings on Israel policies and practices) as well as in various UNCLOS proceedings (e.g., recently in the climate change proceedings) and before the European Court of Human Rights (e.g., recently in Duarte Agostinho v Portugal and Others).
Amy is a member of the United Kingdom Attorney General’s Specialist PIL Panel of Junior Counsel. She is recommended in the UK Legal Directories as a leading junior for PIL and international human rights law and was nominated as international junior of the year in 2023 and 2024. Amy is a member of the BIICL Advisory Panel, a project member of the European Legal Institute project on Climate Justice and was previously an Assistant Editor of the European Human Rights Reports.
She is co-author of the fourth edition of Law of the Sea (Churchill, Lowe and Sander: 2022) and contributing author to The Cambridge Companion to the International Court of Justice, with recent publications addressing inter alia deep seabed mining. Prior to coming to the Bar, Amy taught PIL at the University of Cambridge.