Sam Dubberley

Sam Dubberley continues his year with us having begun at the start of Hilary Term 2025. Sam is the director of the Technology, Rights & Investigations division of Human Rights Watch - leading work at HRW on how technology affects human rights - both in terms of its impact on rights, and how technology can be used to expose violations. His own award-winning research has used technology to document and expose violations of the right to protest and war crimes. While a research visitor at the Institute, Sam is working on an updated edition of the edited book “Digital Witness: Using Open Source Information for Human Rights Investigation, Documentation, and Accountability” that will be published by OUP in 2026.