Philip Alston

Philip G. Alston is an international law scholar and human rights practitioner. He is John Norton Pomeroy Professor of Law at New York University School of Law, and co-Chair of the law school's Center for Human Rights and Global Justice. In human rights law, Alston has held a range of senior UN appointments for over two decades, including United Nations Special Rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions, a position he held from August 2004 to July 2010.

Alston graduated from the University of Melbourne with an LL.B.(Hons.) in 1972 and an LL.M. in 1976 and from the University of California at Berkeley School of Law.

His brother is the former Australian federal Cabinet minister and High Commissioner to the United Kingdom, Richard Alston.

Alston's first academic appointments were at Tufts University (1985–89) and Harvard Law School (1984–89). Alston was then Professor at the Australian National University (1990–95), and also director of its Center for International and Public Law. He was then Professor at the European University Institute (1996–2001), before moving to New York University School of Law, where he is the John Norton Pomeroy Professor of Law. In 2015, it was announced that he would be a faculty instructor in the newly launched NYU Law Institute for Executive Education.

In human rights law, Alston has held a range of senior UN appointments for over two decades. From 1987 to 1991 he was the first Rapporteur for the UN Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights; he then chaired the Committee from 1991 to 1998.

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