- Co-Founder and Co-Executive Director, Death Penalty Project and Visiting Professor of Practice, University of Oxford
Parvais has for over 3 decades specialised in representing individuals facing the death penalty around the world and in particular, countries within the Commonwealth at both the appellate level and before international tribunals.
An internationally recognised expert on the death penalty and human rights law, Parvais has led and participated in delegations advising governments and working with local led organisations on criminal justice reform to abolish the death penalty, throughout the Commonwealth Caribbean, Anglophone Africa and countries within South East Asia. He has written and lectured on capital punishment issues as well as conducting training and capacity building programmes for Judges, prosecutors and criminal defence lawyers.
In 2012, Parvais was awarded an MBE for his services to international human rights and in 2016, received an honorary degree of Doctor of Laws from Middlesex University.
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–presentCo-Founder and Co-Executive Director of the Death Penalty Project, University of Oxford
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