Saul Lehrfreund MBE
Co-Executive Director · Simons Muirhead Burton
EnglandHuman Rights, Civil Rights
About
Co-Executive Director at Simons Muirhead Burton and co‑founder of The Death Penalty Project, Saul Lehrfreund MBE has 25 years’ experience representing prisoners facing the death penalty in criminal and constitutional proceedings before the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council and in international human-rights fora. He specialises in death-penalty litigation, public international law and advising lawyers in retentionist Commonwealth countries.
Practice areas
Human RightsCivil RightsCriminal LawPublic International LawCapital Punishment
Office
Expertise
Death-penalty litigationPrivy Council appealsUN Human Rights Committee and Inter-American proceedingsAdvising counsel in retentionist Commonwealth countriesCriminal justice reform delegations (Japan, China, Taiwan, India)
Education
- Highgate School
- University of Reading (LLB)
- University College London (LLM in Public International Law)