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Melzer, Nils

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Personal name headingMelzer, Nils
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Associated countrySwitzerland
Birth date1970
Field of activityInternational law and human rights
Profession or occupationLaw teachers
Found inTargeted killing in international law, 2008: t.p. (Nils Melzer) p. vii (doctoral thesis, Faculty of Law, Univ. of Zurich, 2006)
Oxford handbook of the international law of global security, 2021: t.p. (Nils Melzer, Nils Melzer, Swiss Affiliation Professor of International Law, University of Glasgow)
Wikipedia, viewd June 25, 2021 ("Nils Melzer (born 1970) is a Swiss academic, author and practitioner in the field of international law. Since 1 November 2016, Melzer has served as the United Nations Special Rapporteur on Torture and other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment. He is a professor of international law at the University of Glasgow and holds the Human Rights Chair at the Geneva Academy of International Humanitarian Law and Human Rights in Switzerland, where he has been teaching since 2009 ... Melzer graduated summa cum laude from the University of Zürich with a PhD degree in law").