Published works include:
- (with Matt Pollard) The Treatment of Prisoners under International Law (3rd edition, 2009);
- (with Matt Pollard) "Criminalisation of Torture: State Obligations under the United Nations Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment" 2006[2] European Human Rights Law Review 115 (2006);
- The UN Human Rights Machinery and International Criminal Law, in Lattimer and Sands (eds.), Justice for Crimes against Humanity (2003, Hart Publishing);
- "The Definition(s) of Torture in International Law" in Current Legal Problems. p467 (2002)
- The Treatment of Prisoners under International Law (1st edition 1987, 2nd edition 1999);
- Impunity of Human Rights (1998);
- (co-ed with Y Danieli and L Weisaeth) International Responses to Traumatic Stress (1995);
- (ed) To Loose the Bands of Wickedness - International Intervention in Defence of Human Rights (1992);
- (with J I Domniguez, B Wood and R A Falk) Enhancing Global Human Rights (1979);
- (co-ed with C N Ronning) International Law in the Western Hemisphere (1974);
In 2010, Routledge published
The Delivery of Human Rights: Essays in Honour of Professor Sir Nigel Rodley, edited by his colleagues Geoff Gilbert, Francoise Hampson, and Clara Sandoval.