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
Harnessing Military Investigations as a Tool for Civilian Protection in an ‘Era of Rearmament’
Civilians today face unprecedented risks in armed conflict, with compliance with the laws of war in crisis. UN figures show civilian deaths rising since 2019 and skyrocketing in 2023, with the number of women and children killed doubling and tripling from the previous year. As Cordula Droege has argued, international humanitarian law (IHL) is ‘under immense…
From Multilateralism to Minilateralism in International Humanitarian Law Compliance
November 25, 2021
Elizabeth Stubbins Bates
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,…
Joint Symposium: The Oxford Forum for International Humanitarian Law Compliance
November 17, 2021
Elizabeth Stubbins Bates
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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Joint Symposium: The Oxford Forum for International Humanitarian Law Compliance
November 17, 2021
Elizabeth Stubbins Bates
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…
Legislating by Soundbite: The Overseas Operations (Service Personnel and Veterans) Bill
September 18, 2020
Elizabeth Stubbins Bates
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…
From Multilateralism to Minilateralism in International Humanitarian Law Compliance
November 25, 2021
Elizabeth Stubbins Bates
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,…