Bill Bowring

Bill Bowring is Professor of Law in the School of Law, Birkbeck, University of London. Barrister at Field Court Chambers, Gray's Inn.

Blustering over the European Convention on Human Rights

Watercolors by John Guthrie

On why we should oppose those who wish to take the UK out of this bour­geois sys­tem. One would think that it’s the Battle of Bri­tain all over again. On 21 Novem­ber 2012 the Daily Mail car­ried the head­line “Defi­ant Chris Grayling says Bri­tain can ignore Stras­bourg fines if we ban pris­on­ers from hav­ing the…

What is radical in ‘radical international law’?

Robert O’Brien and Asia Art Archive

This art­icle star­ted life as a response to the call for papers for the inter­na­tional Work­shop ‘Towards a Rad­ical Inter­na­tional Law’, held at the Lon­don School of Eco­nom­ics in April 2011. The call for papers star­ted with a bold declar­a­tion: Inter­na­tional law is a prom­in­ent site for the invest­it­ure of hope in the face of global insec­ur­it­ies. Yet, as…