Books by Dominic Raab

Dominic Raab studied law at Oxford and Cambridge, where he won the Clive Parry Prize for International Law. He started his career as an international lawyer at Linklaters, working on project finance, international litigation and competition law. He also spent time on secondments at Liberty and in Brussels advising on EU and WTO law. In 2000 he joined the Foreign & Commonwealth Office where he advised on a wide range of briefs, including UK investor protection, maritime issues, counter-proliferation and counter-terrorism, the UK overseas territories and the international law of outer space. In 2003, he was posted to The Hague to head up a new team, focused on bringing war criminals-including Slobodan Milosevic, Radovan Karadzic and Charles Taylor-to justice. On return to London, he advised on the Arab-Israeli conflict, EU law and Gibraltar. He left the FCO in 2006, and worked for three years as chief of staff to respective Shadow Home and Justice Secretaries, advising in the House of Commons on crime, policing, immigration, counter-terrorism, human rights and constitutional reform. On 6 May 2010, he was elected MP for Esher and Walton. In January 2009, he published his first book, The Assault on Liberty-What Went Wrong with Rights (Fourth Estate), criticising the Labour government's approach to human rights and making the case for a British Bill of Rights. In October 2010, he followed this with Fight Terror, Defend Freedom, on the Home Office counter-terrorism review. Dominic Raab has visited, studied and worked across Europe, the US, Latin America and Asia. He is partic-ularly interested in the Middle East, having studied and worked in Israel and the West Bank, and travelled around Egypt and Pakistan. In 1998, he spent a summer at Birzeit University (near Ramallah), and worked for one of the principal Palestinian negotiators of the Oslo peace accords, assessing World Bank projects on the West Bank.