Elizabeth Stubbins Bates

About/Bio

Dr Elizabeth Stubbins Bates is an Early Career Fellow at the Bonavero Institute of Human Rights, and in 2021-2022, Vice-Chancellor's Research Fellow in Law at Oxford Brookes University. From 2018-2021, she was Junior Research Fellow in Law at Merton College, Oxford. Her research is at the intersection of international humanitarian law (IHL) and international human rights law (IHRL), the prevention, investigation, and prosecution of violations of international law in armed conflict. Her forthcoming monograph, A Framework for Compliance in International Humanitarian Law, will be published by Hart in 2022. Dr Stubbins Bates's research has been published in the International and Comparative Law Quarterly, the Journal of Conflict and Security Law, the European Human Rights Law Review, the International Review of the Red Cross, the European Journal of International Law, International Legal Materials, and by Oxford University Press. She is on the Editorial Board of the Journal of Human Rights Practice.

Recently Published

From Multilateralism to Minilateralism in International Humanitarian Law Compliance

This is the final post in the joint EJIL:Talk and Articles of War blog series from the Oxford Forum for International Humanitarian Law Compliance. Geneva law (the Four Geneva Conventions 1949 and their Additional Protocols 1977 and 2005) has few compliance mechanisms. As I argued in my introduction to this blog series,…

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Joint Symposium: The Oxford Forum for International Humanitarian Law Compliance

This is the first post in a joint symposium hosted by EJIL:Talk and Articles of War, the blog of the Lieber Institute at West Point. The symposium reflects a series of conversations held in the context of the Oxford Forum for International Humanitarian Law Compliance, an initiative to promote dialogue between scholars and practitioners on…

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Legislating by Soundbite: The Overseas Operations (Service Personnel and Veterans) Bill

The Overseas Operations (Service Personnel and Veterans) Bill 2019-2021, if passed, would provide a ‘triple lock’ to render ‘exceptional’ prosecutions for criminal offences allegedly committed by the armed forces overseas (outside the UK) more than five years ago; shorten the limitation periods for actions in tort and under the…

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