Staff Details

Malcolm Evans


  • Email M.D.Evans@bristol.ac.uk
  • Telephone +44 (0)117 954 5335; +44 (0)117 954 8969
  • Fax +44 (0)117 925 1870
  • Faculty of Social Sciences and Law, Senate House
Malcolm Evans OBE, current Dean of the Faculty of Social Sciences and Law, was previously Head of the School from 2003-2005. He studied law at Oxford (1979-82; 1983-87). He was appointed to a lectureship at Bristol in 1988 and in 1999 was appointed Professor of Public International Law. His areas of research interest include the law of the sea and the international protection of human rights, with particular focus on the freedom of religion and the prevention of torture.

He is a member of the OSCE Advisory Panel on Freedom of Religion and Belief; the ILA Human Rights Law and Practice Committee; and the Board of Management of the Association for the Prevention of Torture.