Dr Andrew Sanger

Andrew Sanger is a University Associate Professor in International Law and a Fellow of the Lauterpacht Centre for International Law. He went to a state comprehensive secondary school before reading Philosophy and Law at Cambridge (Selwyn College). He went to the London School of Economics for an LLM in Public International Law before returning to Cambridge for a PhD. He was previously a Junior Research Fellow at the Lauterpacht Centre for International Law and a Junior Research Lecturer at Newnham College. In 2016, he was a Visiting Scholar at the University of California, Berkeley School of Law. From 2020-2022, Andrew was the Academic Secretary of the Faculty of Law. In 2022, he was awarded the Student-Led Teaching Award for Small-Group Teaching (Arts, Humanities & Social Sciences; in 2023, he was a Finalist for the Oxford University Press Law Teacher of the Year Award; and in 2024, he was awarded the University of Cambridge Pilkington Prize for Excellence in Teaching. 

Andrew’s research explores topical and structural questions of international law and global governance, with a current focus on the role, regulation and responsibility of global private actors, including their relationship with the state. He has a particular interest in the interaction between international law and other legal/normative systems; the law of immunity; the impact of digital technologies and big data on democracy and global governance; and the ways in which international law exacerbates and/or responds to human vulnerability, disenfranchisement and inequality. Among other things, Andrew is currently working on a project called "Everywhere and Nowhere: The Transnational Corporation in the Global Legal Order". 

Andrew is a member of the Transnational Association of Legal Scholars.

Andrew teaches and supervises aspects of international law and global governance, including human rights, political economy, technology and the law, and globalisation. He also supervises Constitutional Law. 

Outside of academic life, Andrew enjoys running, reading, hiking and photography.