He is the recipient of the Israel Prize, the country's highest civilian award, for his three volume work on Jewish law and other outstanding contributions to his field. He also is affiliated with Erasmus University in Rotterdam. A Transatlantic Initiative , that was edited with Professor James Jacobs of NYU School of Law. Fijnaut is the founder and editor of European Journal of Crime, Criminal Law and Criminal Justice , and the general editor of the International Encyclopedia of Criminal Law , a series in comparative criminal law that plans to publish a volume on criminal law in every major country. Since 1988, Sands has lectured on public international law, EEC law, and international environmental law at London University's Kings College , and now also at the School of Oriental and African Studies .
Sands also has considerable professional experience.
For several years, he has done advisory work for governments, non-governmental organizations, and corporations. He has appeared before the English High Court, the European Court of Justice, the European Commission of Human Rights, the International Court of Justice, and the Iran-U.S. Claims Tribunal. He has advised the Canadian government on a variety of issues and has served as the vice-president of the Consumer Association of Canada and Research Director of the Professional Organizations Committee of the Government of Ontario. Trebilcock also has been a member of the Academic Advisory Panel of the Department of Consumer and Corporate Affairs as well as the Presidential Advisory Committee on Institutional Strategy. He won the Walter Owen Prize for Best English Legal Text in Canada for his book The Common Law of Restraint of trade .