Lawrence Hill-Cawthorne

About/Bio

Lawrence Hill-Cawthorne is an Associate Professor in Law at the University of Bristol. He has a DPhil from the University of Oxford and has research interests in a range of areas of public international law. His monograph Detention in Non-International Armed Conflict, was published by OUP in 2016.

Recently Published

The Prosecution of British Fighters by Pro-Russian Separatists in Ukraine

A court of the so-called Donetsk People’s Republic (DPR) announced last Thursday that two British nationals, Aiden Aslin and Shaun Pinner (as well as Saadoun Brahim, a Moroccan national), who fought on behalf of Ukraine and surrendered during the siege of the Azovstal steelworks in Mariupol, have been handed a death sentence. This came just…

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‘Racism will not pass’…

In her excellent recent post, Sejal Parmar takes us through the UN Human Rights Council’s ‘urgent debate’ on racism in US law enforcement that took place in the wake of the police killing of George Floyd in May. That debate was initiated by a draft resolution from Burkina Faso (on behalf of the Group of African…

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Joint Symposium: Chatham House Paper on Proportionality in the Conduct of Hostilities

This is the final post in our joint symposium arising out of the publication of the Chatham House report, Proportionality in the Conduct of Hostilities: The Incidental Harm Side of the Assessment. The new research paper published by Chatham House on Proportionality in the Conduct of Hostilities is a rigorous…

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