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Christopher Ward

Christopher Ward

Christopher Ward is a Senior Counsel at the New South Wales Bar and Honorary Professor at the Australian National University. He is a specialist in international law and is a past President of the International Law Association headquartered in the United Kingdom. He has acted for many years in cases involving international human rights and has been involved in a number of cases involving the death penalty and prisoners abroad. He is an Ambassador for the Capital Punishment Justice Project.

Christopher Ward reviews 'The Penalty Is Death: State power, law, and justice' edited by Barry Jones

October 2022, no. 447 26 September 2022
In 1968, Barry Jones edited, and contributed to, the first edition of The Penalty Is Death. The book was produced in the immediate aftermath of the execution of Ronald Ryan in Victoria in February 1967, and in the context of vigorous debates in Australia and other Western countries as to the retention of the death penalty. The second edition, published to commemorate the hundredth anniversary of t ... (read more)