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.
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The Responsibility of Syria under the Convention Against Torture before the ICJ
October 6, 2023
Lawrence Hill-Cawthorne
With the oral proceedings and marathon round of interventions over the past two weeks on the preliminary objections in the Allegations of Genocide (Ukraine v Russia) case (on which, see the excellent summary here), one might forget that the International Court of Justice will be in session again from 10 October to hear pleadings in yet…
The Prosecution of British Fighters by Pro-Russian Separatists in Ukraine
June 14, 2022
Lawrence Hill-Cawthorne
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…
‘Racism will not pass’…
July 20, 2020
Lawrence Hill-Cawthorne
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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Popular articles by Lawrence Hill-Cawthorne
The Grand Chamber Judgment in Hassan v UK
September 16, 2014
Lawrence Hill-Cawthorne
The eagerly-awaited Grand Chamber judgment in the case of Hassan v UK has now been released, and its importance for anyone interested in extraterritoriality, detention and the relationship between international humanitarian law (IHL) and international human rights law (IHRL) cannot be overstated. For the first time in its history, the Court has explicitly offered its view on…
‘Racism will not pass’…
July 20, 2020
Lawrence Hill-Cawthorne
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…
The Prosecution of British Fighters by Pro-Russian Separatists in Ukraine
June 14, 2022
Lawrence Hill-Cawthorne
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…