Prof Bill Bowring

Positions held:

Associate Lecturer, Birkbeck Law School
Pathway Leader, Human Rights Pathway, General LLM; Birkbeck Law School

Email

Birkbeck: b.bowring@bbk.ac.uk

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Overview
Overview

Biography

Professor Bill Bowring teaches human rights and international law at Birkbeck College, University of London. His first degree was in Philosophy, from the University of Kent. He has been at Birkbeck since 2006. He previously taught at University of East London, Essex University and London Metropolitan University. As a practising barrister since 1974, he has represented applicants before the European Court of Human Rights in many cases since 1992, especially against Turkey and Russia. He has acted as a consultant and expert for the United Nations, Council of Europe, Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE), European Union and the UK Government. He is the founder in 2003 and a member of the board of European Human Rights Advocacy Centre (EHRAC). He has over 130 publications on topics of international law, human rights, minority rights, Russian law and philosophy. His latest book is Law, Rights and Ideology in Russia: Landmarks in the Destiny of a Great Power (Routledge 2013). He is President of the European Lawyers for Democracy and Human Rights (ELDH), with members in 21 European countries. On 16 October 2017 he was awarded a Fellowship of the Academy of Social Sciences (FAcSS).

Highlights
- Bill Bowring: Law, Rights and Ideology in Russia: Landmarks in the Destiny of a Great Power (Abingdon, Routledge, 2013)
- Bill Bowring: The Degradation Of The International Legal Order?: The Rehabilitation Of Law And The Possibility Of Politics (Abingdon: Routledge Cavendish, 2008)
Qualifications
- Barrister, Middle Temple, 1974
- BA, Philosophy, University of Kent, 1970
Web profiles
Visiting posts
- Visiting Professor, CCSDD Johns Hopkins and Bologna Universities,
Honours and awards
- Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences, Academy of Social Sciences, July 2017
ORCID
0000-0002-6400-1067
Research
Research

Research interests
- Human Rights, Minority Rights, International Law, Law of the USSR, Former Soviet Union and Russia, Marxism
Supervision and teaching
Supervision and teaching

Supervision

Supervisions within Birkbeck:

14

I have supervised several PhD students to successful completion on topics within my research interests. Since 2014:
Dr Federica Prina, cultural and language rights in Russia
Dr Ahmed Khayre, human rights protection in Somalia
Dr Cornelia Klocker, collective punishment and human rights law
Dr Erdem Ertürk, recognition in international law
Dr Naheed Ghauri, islamic law, Muslim Councils, and UK law
Dr Umezulike Chisom Cynthia, the human rights of the anorexic body

Current doctoral researchers
- AYSE KURUL
  
  Nature of supervision:
  Principal Supervisor, Jan 2022 onwards
- CRINA MORTEANU
  
  Nature of supervision:
  Joint Principal Supervisor, Jan 2020 onwards
- MERCEDES MALCOMSON
  
  Nature of supervision:
  Joint Principal Supervisor, Oct 2019 onwards
- SAADIYA ALAM
  
  Nature of supervision:
  Joint Principal Supervisor, Oct 2022 onwards
  
  Title of thesis:
  Securing the Rights of Women under International Human Rights Law: a Comparative Analysis of the UN, European, Inter-American and African Systems
- THANAWAT THOMAS
  
  Nature of supervision:
  Principal Supervisor, Oct 2021 onwards
- TINA HARTLAND-SWANN
  
  Nature of supervision:
  Principal Supervisor, Jan 2019 onwards
  
  Title of thesis:
  Lawfare, Warfare and the Digital Age - Can interference and hybrid conflict be deterred?
Doctoral alumni since 2013-14
- NATALIA DELGADO BERESI
  
  Nature of supervision:
  Joint Principal Supervisor, Oct 2015
  
  Title of thesis:
  Normative Antinomy: A critical analysis of the relationship between the International Labour Organization and the World Trade Organization, the World Bank, and the International Monetary Fund.
  
  Awarded:
  2022
- DYLAN VAN HOUCKE
  
  Nature of supervision:
  Principal Supervisor, Nov 2018
  
  Title of thesis:
  The Right to Ongoing Self-Determination: creating a standard for mitigating the adverse effects of how international law distributes and authorises the exercise of sovereignty
  
  Awarded:
  2021
- NAHEED GHAURI
  
  Nature of supervision:
  Principal Supervisor
  
  Title of thesis:
  The Interaction of Islamic and UK Family Law in the UK’s Shari’a Councils and the Muslim Arbitration Tribunal: A Practitioner’s Insider Perspective
  
  Awarded:
  2021
- CHISOM UMEZULIKE
  
  Nature of supervision:
  Principal Supervisor, Oct 2016
  
  Title of thesis:
  The Meaning-Centred Anorexic Body: A Human Rights-Based Approach to Involuntary Treatment
  
  Awarded:
  2020
- JENNIFER NELLER
  
  Nature of supervision:
  Joint Principal Supervisor, Oct 2014
  
  Title of thesis:
  A Genealogy of the 'Stirring Up Hatred' Offences of England and Wales
  
  Awarded:
  2020
- SAID AZIZ
  
  Nature of supervision:
  Principal Supervisor
  
  Title of thesis:
  How far is Afghanistan's policy towards 'the issue of Pashtunistan' lawful and legitimate?
  
  Awarded:
  2019
- CORNELIA KLOCKER
  
  Nature of supervision:
  Principal Supervisor, Oct 2015
  
  Awarded:
  2018
Teaching

I teach "Public International Law and the Use of Force" and "International Criminal Justice" to undergraduates; and "Issues in International Law and Human Rights", "International Rights of Minorities", and "Taking a Case to the European Court of Human Rights" to Postgraduates

Teaching modules
- Taking a Case to the European Court of Human Rights (LADD013S7)
- Issues in International Law and Human Rights (LADD028S7)
- Perspectives on Political Economy (LALW064S7)
Publications
Publications
Article
- Bowring, Bill (2024) The impact (or not) of the war in Ukraine on Russian minorities and minorities policy. European Yearbook of Minority Issues Online 21 (1), pp. 128-154. ISSN 2211-6117.
- Bowring, Bill (2024) Zombie self-determination? Johannes Socher, Russia and the Right to Self-Determination in the Post-Soviet Space Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2021. Review of Central and East European Law 49, pp. 1-21. ISSN 1573-0352.
- Bowring, Bill (2024) Documents on the consequences of the aggression of the Russian Federation against Ukraine, namely the enlarged partial agreement on the register of damage caused. Internationmal Legal Materials ISSN 0020-7829.
- Bowring, Bill (2022) Spinoza, Marx, and Ilyenkov (who did not know Marx’s transcription of Spinoza). Studies in East European Thought 74, pp. 297-317. ISSN 0925-9392.
- Bowring, Bill (2021) Constitutional reset In Central Asia? The Eurasian Economic Union. Percorsi Costituzionali 1-3/20, pp. 125-154. ISSN 1974-1928.
- Bowring, Bill (2020) Russia and the European Convention (or Court) of Human Rights: the end?. Revue Québécoise de Droit International 2020 (3), pp. 201-218. ISSN 0828-9999.
- Bowring, Bill (2019) Twentieth century totalitarian regimes, lustration, and guilt for crimes of the past: challenges and dangers for the Strasbourg Court. Review of Central and East European Law 44 (1), pp. 91-116. ISSN 1573-0352.
- Bowring, Bill (2018) Politics and pragmatism: The Constitutional Court of the Russian Federation and its 20 years of engagement with the European Convention on Human Rights. East European Yearbook on Human Rights 1 (1), pp. 5-31. ISSN 2589-7764.
- Bowring, Bill (2017) Yevgeniy Pashukanis, his law and Marxism: a general theory, and the 1922 Treaty of Rapallo between Soviet Russia and Germany. Journal of the History of International Law 19 (2), pp. 274-295. ISSN 1388-199X.
- Bowring, Bill Mälksoo, L., ed. (2016) Did the states which founded the UN have liberal or illiberal governments?. Baltic Yearbook of International Law 15, pp. 31-44. ISSN 1569-6456. ISBN 9789004329744.
- Bowring, Bill (2016) Cromwell, Robespierre, Stalin (and Lenin?): must revolution always mean catastrophe?. Crisis and Critique 3 (1), pp. 367-386. ISSN 2311-8172.
- Bowring, Bill (2015) Консерватизм, национализм и «суверенная демократия» в России (Conservatism, nationalism and 'sovereign democracy' in Russia). Форум новейшей восточноевропейской истории и культуры (Web Journal) 12 (1), pp. 192-210.
- Bowring, Bill (2015) What's in a Word: “sovereignty” in the Constitutional Court of the Russian Federation. Russian Journal of Communication 7 (3), pp. 328-336. ISSN 1940-9419.
- Bowring, Bill (2014) Case commentary: Catan v Moldova and Russia: geopolitics and the right to education, and why "no person" is in fact a child. International Justice 1 (9), pp. 44-59. ISSN 2226-2059.
- Bowring, Bill (2014) Gender, Geography and Punishment: The Experiences of Women in Carceral Russia. Europe-Asia Studies 66 (6), pp. 1014-1015. ISSN 0966-8136.
- Bowring, Bill (2014) Geopolitics and the right to education, and why 'no person' is' in fact' a child. Child and Family Law Quarterly 26 (2), pp. 196-215. ISSN 1358-8184.
- Bowring, Bill (2014) What if Ilyenkov had known Marx’s transcription of Spinoza?. Al-Farabi 1 (45), pp. 13-31. ISSN 1999-5911.
- Bowring, Bill (2012) Minority rights in post-war Iraq: an impending catastrophe?. International Journal of Contemporary Iraqi Studies 5 (3), pp. 319-335. ISSN 1751-2867.
- Bowring, Bill (2012) Law in a linguistic battlefield: the language of the new state versus the ‘language of the oppressors’ in Ukraine. Language & Law 1, ISSN 2194-7414.
- Bowring, Bill (2012) The ECtHR Grand Chamber judgment in Kononov v Latvia (17 May 2010): is the Russian Federation correct in its understanding of the relationship between politics and international law?. International Justice 2 (3), ISSN 2226—2059.
- Bowring, Bill (2012) Human rights and public education. Cambridge Journal of Education 42 (1), pp. 53-65. ISSN 0305-764X.
- Bowring, Bill (2012) Russia’s constitutional crisis 1990 to 1993: the (missing) role of the constitutional court and its chairman. Review of Central and East European Law 37 (4), pp. 481-490. ISSN 0925-9880.
- Bowring, Bill (2012) What reparation does a torture survivor obtain from international litigation? Critical reflections on practice at the Strasbourg Court. The International Journal of Human Rights 16 (5), pp. 755-772. ISSN 1364-2987.
- Bowring, Bill (2011) Marx, Lenin and Pashukanis on self-determination: response to Robert Knox. Historical Materialism 19 (2), pp. 113-127. ISSN 1465-4466.
- Bowring, Bill (2010) Improving Russia’s “investment climate”: will the latest wave of judicial reform succeed?. World Commerce Review 3, ISSN 1751-0023.
- Bowring, Bill (2010) The Russian Federation, protocol no. 14 (and 14 bis), and the battle for the soul of the ECHR. Göttingen Journal of International Law 2 (2), pp. 589-617. ISSN 1868-1581.
- Bowring, Bill (2009) Fragmentation, Lex Specialis and the tensions in the Jurisprudence of the European Court of Human Rights. Journal of Conflict and Security Law 14 (3), pp. 485-498. ISSN 14677962.
- Bowring, Bill (2009) Legal mechanisms of the council of Europe and the EU. Al-Majdal-Badil’s Quarterly English Language Magazine 41, pp. 8-11. ISSN 1726-7277.
- Bowring, Bill (2009) Legal nihilism in Russia. Open Democracy
- Bowring, Bill (2009) Russia and Human Rights: Incompatible Opposites?. Göttingen Journal of International Law 1 (2), pp. 257-278. ISSN 1868-1581.
- Bowring, Bill (2008) Russia and international law. EU-Russia Review (8), pp. 119-128.
- Bowring, Bill (2008) The case of Zhdanok versus Latvia. (Delo ‘Zhdanok protiv Latvia’).. Человек и закон (Man and Law) 10, pp. 66-76. ISSN 0132-0831.
- Bowring, Bill (2008) Tensions multiply between Russia and Council of Europe: could the malaise be terminal?. EU-Russia Review (6), pp. 4-12.
- Bowring, Bill (2008) Europe betrays its founding principle. The European Lawyer 83, pp. 62-63. ISSN 1470-9279.
- Bowring, Bill (2008) European minority protection: the past and future of a “major historical achievement”. International Journal on Minority and Group Rights 15 (2-3), pp. 413-425. ISSN 1385-4879.
- Bowring, Bill (2008) Misunderstanding MacIntyre on human rights. Analyse and Kritik 30 (1), pp. 205-214. ISSN 0171-5860.
- Bowring, Bill (2008) Negating pluralist democracy: the European Court of Human Rights forgets the rights of the electors. (Pozitsiya Yevropeiskovo Suda po Pravam Cheloveka v Voprose ob Izbiratelnikh Pravakh Grazhdan v Kontekste Latviiskoi Praktiki: Kriticheskii Vzglyad).. Prava Cheloveka: Praktika Yevropeiskovo Suda po pravam cheloveka (Human Rights: Case Law of the European Court of Human Rights) 6 (27), pp. 28-80.
- Bowring, Bill (2007) Negating pluralist democracy: the Court forgets the rights of the electors. Kurdish Human Rights Project Legal Review 11, pp. 67-96. ISSN 1748-0639.
- Bowring, Bill (2007) Negating pluralist democracy: the Strasbourg court forgets the rights of the electors. Kurdish Human Rights Project Legal Review 11, pp. 67-96. ISSN 1748-0639.
- Bowring, Bill (2007) The Tatars of the Russian Federation and national-cultural autonomy: a contradiction in terms?. Ethnopolitics 6 (3), pp. 417-435. ISSN 1744-9057.
- Bowring, Bill (2005) Administrativnaya iyustitsiya v Yevrope: analaticheskiy obzor. Sravniteltoye konstitutsionnoye obozrenye 2 (51), pp. 31-56.
- Bowring, Bill (2003) Postcolonial transitions on the southern borders of the former Soviet Union: the return of Eurasianism?. Griffith Law Review 12 (2), pp. 238-262. ISSN 1038-3441.
- Bowring, Bill (2002) Austro-Marxism's last laugh?: the struggle for recognition of national-cultural autonomy for Rossians and Russians. Europe-Asia Studies 54 (2), pp. 229-250. ISSN 0966-8136.
- Bowring, Bill (2002) Dolgii put Velikobritanii k evropeiskim standartam prav cheloveka: v avangarde I daleko pozadi. Konstitutsionnoye Pravo: Vostochnoevropeiskoye Obozreniye 1 (38), pp. 37-45. ISSN 1560-7828.
- Bowring, Bill (2002) Forbidden relations? the UK's discourse of human rights and the struggle for social justice. Law Social Justice and Global Development Journal
- Bowring, Bill (2002) Sudebnaya systema i yeyo radikalnaya reforma v Anglii i Uwelse. Konstitutsionnoye Pravo: Vostochnoevropeiskoye Obozreniye 3 (4), pp. 2-11. ISSN 1560-7828.
- Bowring, Bill (2001) Vstupleniye Rossii v Sovet Evropy i prava cheloveka: chetyre goda spustya. Rossiiskii Byulletin po Pravam Cheloveka 14, pp. 53-66.
- Bowring, Bill (2000) Russia's accession to the Council of Europe and human rights: four years on. European Human Rights Law 4, pp. 362. ISSN 1361-1526.
- Bowring, Bill (2000) Russia's accession to the Council of Europe and human rights: four years on. Helsinki Monitor: Quarterly on Security and Cooperation in Europe ISSN 0925-0972.
- Bowring, Bill (1999) The children of Russia: victims of crisis, beneficiaries of international law. Child and Family Law Quarterly 11, pp. 125-135. ISSN 1358-8184.
- Bowring, Bill (1998) The rights of indigenous peoples: international perspectives. Migration Issues 2 (5), pp. 22.
- Bowring, Bill (1997) Russia's accession to the Council of Europe and human rights: compliance or cross-purposes?. European Human Rights Law 6, pp. 628-643. ISSN 1361-1526.
- Bowring, Bill (1996) Law and injustice: is there an exit from the postmodern maze?. Soundings: A Journal of Politics and Culture (2), pp. 213-224. ISSN 1362-6620.
- Bowring, Bill (1995) The 'droit et devoir d'ingérence': a timely new remedy for Africa?. African Journal of International and Comparative Law 7, pp. 493-510. ISSN 0954-8890.
Book
- Bowring, Bill (2021) Билл Бауринг: Деградация международного правового порядка? Реабилитация права и возможность политикиi. Moscow, Russia: NLO Publishers. ISBN 9785444814826.
- Bowring, Bill (2013) Law, rights and ideology in Russia: landmarks in the destiny of a great power. Abingdon, UK: Routledge. ISBN 9780415683463.
- Bowring, Bill and Levina, M., eds. (2000) Sotsilanoye Zakonodatelstvo Rossii i Velikobritanii. ISBN 9785873720991.
- Deirdre, F. and Bowring, Bill, eds. (1999) Minority and group rights in the new Millennium. Leiden, Netherlands: Brill Academic Publishers. ISBN 9789041110138.
- Bowring, Bill (1997) Prisons law and human rights. Moscow, Russia: Erebus Publishers.
- Bowring, Bill and Savitsky, V., eds. (1996) Prava cheloveka i sudebniy control. Moscow, Russia: Human Rights Publishers.
Book Review
- Bowring, Bill (2021) 'Transitional Justice: Contending with the Past', Michael Newman. Cambridge: Polity, 2019, pp.204, ISBN 9781509521166, £15.99 (pbk).
- Bowring, Bill (2015) Russian Approaches to International Law by Lauri Malksoo, Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2015. 240 pp..
- Bowring, Bill (2010) Dialectic and Difference: Dialectical Critical Realism and the Grounds of Justice, by Alan Norrie.
- Bowring, Bill (2010) Manual on the Wearing of Religious Symbols in Public Areas.
- Bowring, Bill (2009) Judging Russia: Constitutional Court in Russian Politics, 1990-2006 by Alexei Trochev.
- Bowring, Bill (2004) 'Importing the Law in Post-Communist Transitions. The Hungarian Constitutional Court and the Right to Human Dignity', by Catherine Dupré.
Book Section
- Bowring, Bill (2024) The end of which war? Uncomfortable legal and historical comparisons and diagnoses. In: Leist, A. and Zimmermann, R. (eds.) After the War? How the Ukraine War Challenges Political Theories. Berlin, Germany and Boston, U.S.: De Gruyter. pp. 149-169. ISBN 9783111182131.
- Bowring, Bill (2023) Russian attitudes to human rights. In: Muravyeva, M. (ed.) The Foundations of Russian Law. Hart Publishing. pp. 129-154. ISBN 9781782256489.
- Bowring, Bill (2023) Russian attitudes to public international law. In: Muravyeva, M. (ed.) The Foundations of Russian Law. Hart Publishing. pp. 99-128. ISBN 9781782256489.
- Bowring, Bill (2022) Britain and the Iraq War. In: Carty, T. (ed.) Oxford Bibliographies in International Law. Oxford Bibliographies. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780199796953.
- Bowring, Bill (2021) International law and non-recognized entities: towards a frozen future?. In: Harzl, B.C. and Petrov, R. (eds.) Unrecognized Entities. Perspectives in International, European and Constitutional Law. Law in Eastern Europe. Leiden, The Netherlands: Brill. ISBN 9789004499096. (In Press)
- Bowring, Bill (2021) Marx, Engels, Lenin, and the right of peoples to self-determination in International Law. In: Ozsu, U. and O'Connell, P. (eds.) The Research Handbook on Law and Marxism. Research Handbooks in Legal Theory series. Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar. ISBN 9781788119856. (In Press)
- Bowring, Bill (2021) Marxist international law methodology?. In: Deplano, R. and Tsagourias, N. (eds.) Research Methods in International Law. Handbooks of Research Methods in Law. Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar. pp. 162-180. ISBN 9781788972352.
- Bowring, Bill (2019) The crisis of the European Court of Human Rights in the face of authoritarian and populist regimes. In: Kent, A. and Trinidad, J. and Skoutaris, N. (eds.) The Future of International Courts: Regional, Institutional and Procedural Challenges. Routledge Research in International Law. Abingdon, UK: Routledge. ISBN 9781138615182.
- Bowring, Bill (2019) Minority language rights in the Russian Federation: the end of a long tradition?. In: Hogan-Brun, G. and O’Rourke, B. (eds.) The Palgrave Handbook of Minority Languages and Communities. London, UK: Palgrave. pp. 73-99. ISBN 9781137540652.
- Bowring, Bill (2018) Russia and the Council of Europe: an incompatible ideology, and a transplanted legal regime?. In: Morris, P.S. (ed.) Russian Discourses on International Law: Sociological and Philosophical Phenomenon. Abingdon, UK: Routledge. ISBN 9781138566705.
- Bowring, Bill (2018) The death of Lex Specialis? Regional human rights mechanisms and the protection of civilians in armed conflict. In: Sands, P. and Lattimer, M. (eds.) The Grey Zone: Civilian Protection Between Human Rights and the Laws of War. London, UK: Hart Publishing. ISBN 9781509908653.
- Bowring, Bill (2018) Russian cases in the ECtHR and the question of implementation. In: Mälksoo, L. and Benedek, W. (eds.) Russia and the European Court of Human Rights: The Strasbourg Effect. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press. pp. 188-221. ISBN 9781108415736.
- Bowring, Bill (2017) England’s terror of the French Revolution: the historical roots of resistance to the rights of man and the case against the Human Rights Act. In: Cowell, Frederick (ed.) Critically Examining the Case Against the 1998 Human Rights Act. Abingdon, UK: Routledge. ISBN 9781138223820.
- Bowring, Bill and Borgoyakova, T. (2017) Language policy and education in Russia. In: May, S. and McCarty, T. (eds.) Language Policy and Political Issues in Education. Encyclopedia of Language and Education. New York, U.S.: Springer. pp. 349-365. ISBN 9783319023434.
- Bowring, Bill (2017) The legal significance of Potsdam: Quincy Wright versus Wilhelm Grewe in the pages of the American Journal of International Law. In: Koch, C. (ed.) Das Potsdamer Abkommen 1945-2015. Rechtliche Bedeutung und historische Auswirkungen. Frankfurt am Main, Germany: Peter Lang. pp. 115-132. ISBN 9783631670910.
- Bowring, Bill (2017) Does Russia have a human rights future in the Council of Europe and OSCE?. In: Lettinga, D. and van Troost, L. (eds.) Shifting Power and Human Rights Diplomacy: Russia. Amnesty International Netherlands. pp. 53-64. ISBN 9789064633966.
- Bowring, Bill (2015) Case-Law of the European Court of Human Rights Concerning the Protection of Minorities, July 2012 to August 2014. In: Hofmann, R and Marko, J. (eds.) European Yearbook of Minority Issues. European Yearbook of Minority Issues. Leiden, The Netherlands: Brill. pp. 119-220. ISBN 9789004306134.
- Bowring, Bill (2015) From empire to multilateral player: the deep roots of autonomy in Russia. In: Malloy, T.H. and Palermo, F. (eds.) Minority Accommodation through Territorial and Non-Territorial Autonomy. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press. pp. 133-157. ISBN 9780198746669.
- Bowring, Bill (2015) The Russian Federation and the Strasbourg Court: the illegitimacy of sovereignty?. In: Ziegler, K. and Wicks, L. and Hodson, L. (eds.) The UK and European Human Rights: A Strained Relationship?. Modern Studies in European Law. Oxford, UK: Hart. pp. 415-440. ISBN 9781849467957.
- Bowring, Bill (2015) The law of value and the law. In: Haskell, J. and Mattei, U. (eds.) Research Handbook on Political Economy and Law. Research Handbooks on Globalisation and the Law. London, UK: Edward Elgar. pp. 158-176. ISBN 9781781005347.
- Bowring, Bill (2014) Transnistria. In: Walter, C. and von Ungern-Sternberg, A. and Abushov, K. (eds.) Self-Determination and Secession in International Law. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press. pp. 157-174. ISBN 9780198702375.
- Bowring, Bill (2014) The Russian language in Ukraine: complicit in genocide, or victim of state-building?. In: Ryazanova-Clarke, L. (ed.) The Russian Language Outside the Nation Speakers and Identities. Studies in Social Interaction EUP. Edinburgh, Scotland: Edinburgh University Press. pp. 56-80. ISBN 9780748668458.
- Bowring, Bill (2013) Protecting minority rights through an individual rights mechanism: The Strasbourg Court and some significant developments to June 2012. In: Spiliopoulou Åkermark, S. and Bloed, A. and Hofmann, R. and Hansen Malloy, T. and Marko, J. and Mayall, J. and Packer, J. and Weller, M. (eds.) European Yearbook of Minority Issues. European Yearbook of Minority Issues. Leiden, The Netherlands: Brill. pp. 437-460. ISBN 9789004256347.
- Bowring, Bill (2013) What is radical in "Radical International Law"?. In: Klabbers, J. (ed.) Finnish Yearbook of International Law. Oxford, UK: Hart. pp. 1-29. ISBN 9781849463492.
- Bowring, Bill (2013) Minorities’ protection in Russia: is there a ‘Communist Legacy’?. In: Cordell, K. and Agarin, T. and Osipov, A. (eds.) Institutional Legacies of Communism: Change and Continuities in Minority Protection. Routledge Advances In European Politics. Abingdon, UK: Routledge. pp. 45-58. ISBN 9780415638739.
- Bowring, Bill (2012) Russian legislation in the area of minority rights. In: Protsyk, O. and Harzl, B. (eds.) Managing Ethnic Diversity in Russia. Routledge Contemporary Russia and Eastern Europe Series. Abingdon, UK: Routledge. pp. 15-36. ISBN 9780415531481.
- Bowring, Bill (2010) 'Terrorist lists' and procedural human rights: a collision between UN law, EU law and Strasbourg law?. In: Banakar, R. (ed.) Rights in Context: Law and Justice in Late Modern Society. Surrey, UK: Ashgate. pp. 231-252. ISBN 9781409407393.
- Bowring, Bill (2010) What is realism in international law and human rights?. In: Joseph, J. and Wight, C. (eds.) Scientific Realism and International Relations. Hampshire, UK: Palgrave Macmillan. pp. 101-114. ISBN 9780230240063.
- Bowring, Bill (2010) The death penalty and Russia. In: Yorke, J. (ed.) The Right to Life and the Value of Life: Orientations in Law, Politics and Ethics. Surrey, UK: Ashgate. pp. 296-290. ISBN 9780754677611.
- Bowring, Bill (2010) The Russian constitutional system: complexity and asymmetry. In: Weller, M. and Nobbs, K. (eds.) Asymmetric Autonomy and the Settlement of Ethnic Conflicts. National and Ethnic Conflict in the 21st Century. Pennsylvania, U.S.: University of Pennsylvania Press. pp. 48-74. ISBN 9780812242300.
- Bowring, Bill (2010) Enhanced local self-government as a means of enhancing minority governance. In: Weller, M. and Nobbs, K. (eds.) Political Participation of Minorities A Commentary on International Standards and Practice. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press. pp. 661-681. ISBN 9780199569984.
- Bowring, Bill (2010) Language rights in practice – the case of the former editor of the only Khakas language newspaper. In: Lukanovic, S.N. (ed.) A Shared Vision: Intercultural Dialogue – A Global Paradigm to Promote Linguistic and Cultural Diversity. Ethnicity. Ljubljana, Slovenia: Slovenian National Commission for UNESCO, Institute for Ethnic Studies. pp. 87-106. ISBN 9789616159357.
- Bowring, Bill (2009) Language policy in Ukraine: international standards and obligations. In: Besters-Dilger, J. (ed.) Language Policy and Language Situation in Ukraine: Analysis and Recommendations. Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang Publishing. pp. 57-100. ISBN 978-3-631-58389-0.
- Bowring, Bill (2008) How will the European Court of Human Rights deal with the UK in Iraq?: lessons from Turkey and Russia. In: Shiner, P. and Williams, A. (eds.) The Iraq War and International Law. Oxford: Hart Publishing. pp. 285-312. ISBN 1841136697.
- Bowring, Bill (2008) Positivism versus self-determination: the contradictions of Soviet international law. In: Marks, Susan (ed.) International Law on the Left: Re-examining Marxist Legacies. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. pp. 133-168. ISBN 9780521882552.
- Bowring, Bill (2008) The Tatars of the Russian Federation and national-cultural autonomy: a contradiction in terms?. In: Cordell, K. and Smith, D.J. (eds.) Cultural Autonomy in Contemporary Europe. Association for the Study of Nationalities. Abingdon: Routledge. pp. 81-100. ISBN 978-0-415-46456-7.
- Bowring, Bill (2008) Das Vereinigte Königreich und der Verfassungsvertrag. In: Viotto, R. and Fisahn, A. (eds.) Europa am Scheideweg: Kritik des EU- 'Reformvertrags'. Hamburg, Germany: VSA Verlag. pp. 118-136. ISBN 9783899652888.
- Bowring, Bill (2008) Legal and policy developments in the Russian Federation in 2007 with regard to the protection of minorities. In: Dertwinkel, T. and Lantschner, E. (eds.) European Yearbook of Minority Issues. European Yearbook of Minority Issues. Leiden: Martinus Nijhoff Publishers. pp. 529-543. ISBN 9004174230.
- Bowring, Bill (2008) Movna politika v Ukraini. mizhnarodni normi ta zobovyazannya i ukrainsii zakon ta zakonodavstvo. In: Besters-Dilger, J. (ed.) Movna Politika ta Movna Situatsiya v Ukraini: Analiz i Rekomendatsii. Kiev: Kyiv Mohyla Academy. pp. 55-95. ISBN 9789665184614.
- Bowring, Bill (2008) The UK and the constitutional treaty. In: Fisahn, A. and Viotto, R. (eds.) Europa am Scheideweg: Kritik des EU-"Reformvertrags". Hamburg, Germany: VSA-Verlag. pp. 118-136. ISBN 978-3-89965-288-8.
- Bowring, Bill and Antonovych, M. (2008) Ukraine’s long and winding road to the European charter for regional or minority languages. In: Dunbar, R. (ed.) The European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages and the Media. Regional or Minority Languages. Strasbourg, France: Council of Europe Publishing. pp. 157-182. ISBN 9789287164315.
- Bowring, Bill (2007) Moscow: third Rome, model communist city, Eurasian antagonist - and power as no-power?. In: Philippopoulos-Mihalopoulos, A. (ed.) Law and the City. Abingdon, UK: Routledge. ISBN 9780415420341.
- Bowring, Bill (2006) Ideology critique and international law: towards a substantive account of international human rights. In: Warbrick, C. and Tierney, S. (eds.) Towards an International Legal Community? The Sovereignty of States and the Sovereignty of International Law. London, UK: British Institute of International and Comparative Law. pp. 193-210. ISBN 9780903067799.
- Bowring, Bill (2006) Ombudsman institutions and ethnic conflict in Russia and Ukraine: a failure of local institution-building?. In: European Yearbook of Minority Issues. Leiden, Netherlands: Brill. pp. 269-294. ISBN 9789004149533.
- Bowring, Bill (2005) Burial and resurrection: Karl Renner's controversial influence on the 'national question' in Russia. In: Nimni, E. (ed.) National-Cultural Autonomy and its Contemporary Critics. Abingdon, UK: Routledge. pp. 191-206. ISBN 9780415499019.
- Bowring, Bill (2005) The Crimean autonomy: innovation or anomaly?. In: Weller, M. and Wolff, S. (eds.) Autonomy, Self-governance and Conflict Resolution: Innovative approaches to institutional design in divided societies. Abingdon, UK: Routledge. pp. 75-97. ISBN 9780415339863.
- Bowring, Bill (2005) Russia in a common European legal space. developing effective remedies for the violations of rights by public bodies: compliance with the European Convention on Human Rights. In: Hober, K. (ed.) The Uppsala Yearbook of East European Law 2004. London, UK: Wildy, Simmonds and Hill. pp. 89-116. ISBN 9781898029809.
- Bowring, Bill (2005) The organisation for security and cooperation in Europe and human rights. In: Smith, R. and van den Anker, C. (eds.) The Essentials of Human Rights. London, UK: Hodder and Stoughton Educational. ISBN 9780340815748.
- Bowring, Bill (2005) The reality of human rights in Commonwealth of Independent States. In: Smith, R. and van den Anker, C. (eds.) The Essentials of Human Rights. London, UK: Hodder and Stoughton Educational. ISBN 9780340815748.
- Bowring, Bill (2004) Law, customary: Central Asia. In: Joseph, S. (ed.) Encyclopedia of Women and Islamic Cultures. Leiden, Netherlands: Brill. ISBN 9789004128187.
- Bowring, Bill (2003) Rejected organs? The efficacy of legal transplantation, and the ends of human rights in the Russian Federation. In: Örücü, E. (ed.) Judicial comparativism in human rights cases. London, UK: United Kingdom National Committee of Comparative Law, British Institute of International and Comparative Law (UKNCCL, BIICL). pp. 159-181. ISBN 904281183.
- Bowring, Bill (2002) Between a (Russian) rock and a (Crimean Tatar) hard place? ethnic, linguistic and minority issues. In: Lewis, A. (ed.) The EU and Ukraine: Neighbours, Friends, Partners?. London, UK: http://fedtrust.co.uk/federal-trust-publications/back-catalogue/. ISBN 9781903403181.
- Bowring, Bill (2002) The degradation of international law?. In: Strawson, J. (ed.) Law After Ground Zero. London, UK: Glasshouse Press. ISBN 9781904385028.
- Bowring, Bill (2000) Ancient peoples and new nations in the Russian Federation: questions of theory and practice. In: Tierney, S. (ed.) Accommodating National Identity: New Approaches in International and Domestic Law. Leiden, Netherlands: Brill. ISBN 9789041114006.
- Bowring, Bill (2000) Criticising judges in Russia. In: Addo, M. (ed.) Freedom of Expression and the Criticism of Judges: A comparative study of European legal standards. Abingdon, UK: Routledge. ISBN 9780754621294.
- Bowring, Bill (2000) Politics, the rule of law and the judiciary. In: Robinson, N. (ed.) Institutions and Political Change in Russia. Palgrave Macmillan. pp. 69-84. ISBN 9780333977941.
- Bowring, Bill (2000) Russian children: the obscenity of political fantasy. In: Heinze, E. (ed.) Of Innocence and autonomy: Children, sex and human rights. Abingdon, UK: Routledge. ISBN 978184014484X.
- Bowring, Bill (2000) The protection of children's rights in English legislation. In: Bowring, Bill and Levina, M. (eds.) Sotsilanoye Zakonodatelstvo Rossii i Velikobritanii. ISBN 9785873720991.
- Bowring, Bill (1999) Human rights and Eastern Europe. In: Hegarty, A. and Leonard, S. (eds.) A Human Rights Agenda for the Twenty-First Century. Cavendish. ISBN 9781859413935.
- Bowring, Bill (1999) Multicultural citizenship: a more viable framework for minority rights?. In: Deirdre, F. and Bowring, Bill (eds.) Minority and Group Rights in the New Millennium. Leiden, Netherlands: Brill Academic Publishers. ISBN 9789041110138.
- Bowring, Bill (1999) New nations and national minorities: Ukraine and the question of citizenship. In: Cumper, P. and Wheatley, S. (eds.) Minority Rights in the 'New' Europe. Leiden, Netherlands: Brill. ISBN 9789041111241.
- Bowring, Bill (1999) Politics versus the rule of law in the work of the Russian Constitutional Court. In: Priban, J. and Young, J. (eds.) The rule of law in Central Europe : the reconstruction of legality, constitutionalism and civil society in the post-Communist countries. Ashgate. ISBN 9781840147193.
- Bowring, Bill (1998) Is post-statism really post-Marxism?: response to John Hoffman. In: Davies, M. and Mayo, M. (eds.) Marxism and struggle: Toward the millennium. London, UK: Praxis Press. pp. 125-136.
- Bowring, Bill (1998) Redress for survivors of torture. In: Joyner, C. (ed.) Reining in Impunity for International Crimes and Serious Violatons of Fundamental Human Rights. Siracusa, Sicily: Association Internationale de Droit Penale.
- Bowring, Bill (1998) Sergei Kovalyov: the first Russian human rights ombudsman - and the last?. In: Mullerson, R. and Fitzmaurice, M. and Adenas, M. (eds.) Constitutional Reform and International Law in Central and Eastern Europe. Leiden, Netherlands: Brill. pp. 235-256. ISBN 9789041105264.
- Bowring, Bill (1996) Human rights in the transitional period, risk scenarios: an international perspective. In: International Human Rights Enforcement: The Case of the Occupied Palestinian Territories in the Transitional Period. CIHRE.
- Bowring, Bill (1996) The Kurds in Turkey: protecting the rights of a minority. In: Schulze, K. and Stokes, M. and Campbell, C. (eds.) Nationalism, Minorities and Diasporas: Identities and Rights in the Middle East. London, UK: I. B. Tauris. ISBN 9781860640520.
- Bowring, Bill (1995) Human rights in Russia: a discourse of emancipation or just another mirage?. In: Pogany, I. (ed.) Human Rights in Eastern Europe. London, UK: Edward Elgar. pp. 87-110. ISBN 9781858983332.
- Bowring, Bill (1995) Whose rights, what people, which community? the rule of law as an instrument of oppression in the new Latvia. In: Fitzpatrick, Peter (ed.) Nationalism, Racism and the Rule of Law. Dartmouth. ISBN 9781855215542.
- Bowring, Bill (1992) Socialism, liberation struggles and the law. In: Grigg-Spall, I. and Ireland, P. (eds.) The Critical Lawyers Handbook. London, UK: Pluto Press. pp. 179-183. ISBN 9780745305097.
Conference Item
- Bowring, Bill Oittinen, V., ed. (2012) What if Ilyenkov had known Marx's transcription of Spinoza?. Spinoza in Soviet Thought, 2012, Aleksanteri Institute, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
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- Bowring, Bill (2009) Global law and human rights: Marxist reflections. How can a political account of human rights avoid Eurocentrism?. London, UK: Birkbeck College, University of London.
- Bowring, Bill (2004) The rule of law in Moldova. International Commission of Jurists.
Other
- Bowring, Bill (2006) The human rights implications of international listing mechanisms for 'terrorist' organisations. Triesenberg, Liechtenstien: The Office of the High Commissioner and the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights.
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I am President of the European Lawyers for Democracy and Human Rights (ELDH), with members in 21 European countries
I am International Secretary of the Haldane Society of Socialist Lawyers
I am Founder and Board Member of the European Human Rights Advocacy Centre (EHRAC)
I was from 1996 to 2021 a Trustee of the Redress Trust
I am a Founder and Executive Committee Member of the Bar Human Rights Committee of England and Wales
I am a Trustee of Lawyers for Palestinian Human Rights

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