Nils Melzer, born in 1970, is a Swiss legal scholar and international law practitioner. He is a professor of international law at the University of Glasgow and served as United Nations Special Rapporteur on Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment from 2016 to 2022. Earlier in his career he spent twelve years with the International Committee of the Red Cross as a delegate and legal adviser in conflict zones and later held an academic post at the Geneva Academy of International Humanitarian Law and Human Rights. His book Targeted Killing in International Law won the Paul Guggenheim Prize in 2009, and as Special Rapporteur he became known for his criticism of several governments treatment of Julian Assange.
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