Isabel Buchanan is a barrister at Blackstone Chambers where she has a broad practice, including public, public international and human rights law. She is the author of Trials: On Death Row in Pakistan (Jonathan Cape 2016), which won the Saltire Scottish First Book Award and was an Economist and Spectator book of the year. She was a legal panelist and contributor to Protecting Children in Armed Conflict (Hart 2018). Isabel has taught at the University of Glasgow and the University of London. She was a Kennedy Scholar at Harvard University and has a MRes and LLB (Hons) from the University of Glasgow. Before coming to the bar, Isabel worked in Lahore as a case worker for Justice Project Pakistan, providing pro bono representation to persons facing the death penalty.