Southampton Law School

Ed Bates

LLB, LLM, PhD, Solicitor

Primary position:
Senior Lecturer

Background

LLB (Soton) 1991; LLM (Nottingham) 1996; PhD (Nottingham) 2001; Solicitor. City Solicitors' Educational Trust Lecturer in Human Rights Law (2001-2004).

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Publications

The University of Southampton's electronic library (e-prints)

Article

Bates, Ed (2012) British sovereignty and the European Court of Human Rights. Law Quarterly Review, 2012, (128), 382-411.
Bates, Ed (2009) Anti-terrorism control orders: liberty and security still in the balance. Legal Studies, 29, (1), 99-126. (doi:10.1111/j.1748-121X.2008.00118.x).
Bates, Ed (2008) Avoiding legal obligations created by human rights treaties. International and Comparative Law Quarterly, 57, (04), 751-788. (doi:10.1017/S0020589308000602).
Bates, Ed (2007) State immunity for torture. Human Rights Law Review, 1-30. (doi:10.1093/hrlr/ngm025).
Bates, Ed (2003) The Al-Adsani case, state immunity and the international prohibition on torture. Human Rights Law Review, 3, (2), 193-224. (doi:10.1093/hrlr/3.2.193).

Book

Bates, Ed (2010) The Evolution of the European Convention on Human Rights. From its inception to the creation of a permanent court of Human Rights, Oxford, GB, Oxford University Press, 571pp.
Harris, David, O'Boyle, Micheal, Bates, Ed and Buckley, Carla (2009) Harris, O'Boyle & Warbrick: Law of the European Convention on Human Rights, Oxford, GB, Oxford University Press, 960pp.

Book Section

Bates, Ed (2011) The birth of the European Convention on Human Rights. In, Christoffersen, Jonas and Madsen, Mikeal (eds.) The European Court of Human Rights between Law and Politics. Oxford, GB, Oxford University Press, 17-42. (In Press).
Bates, Ed (2010) History. In, Moeckli, Daniel , Shah, Sangeeta , Sivakumaran, Sandesh and Harris, David (eds.) International Human Rights Law. Oxford, GB, Oxford University Press, 17-38.
Bates, Ed (2007) ESC rights and the UK. In, Baderin, Mashood and McCorquodale, Robert (eds.) Economic, Social and Cultural Rights. Oxford, GB, Oxford University Press.
Bates, Ed (2007) The United Kingdom and the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights. In, Baderin, Mashood A. and McCorquodale, Robert (eds.) Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights in Action. Oxford, UK, Oxford University Press, 257-299.
Bates, Ed (2006) A "public emergency threatening the life of the nation"? The United Kingdom's derogation from the European Convention on Human Rights of 18 December 2001 and the 'A' case. In, Crawford, J. and Lowe, V. (eds.) British Year Book of International Law 2005. Oxford, GB, Oxford University Press, 245-335. (British Yearbook of International Law, 76).
Bates, E. (2005) Supervising the execution of judgments delivered by the European Court of Human Rights: the challenges facing the Committee of Ministers. In, Christou, Theodora and Raymond, Juan-Pablo (eds.) European Court of Human Rights: Remedies and Execution of Judgments. London, British Institute of International and Comparative Law, 49-106.
 

Research

Research Interests

His interests lie in international human rights law, in particular the protection of civil and political rights within Europe. His PhD thesis was a critical evaluation of the evolution of the European Convention on Human Rights and is to be published by Oxford University Press in 2009.

Ed welcomes enquiries from students interested in undertaking research in any original topic relating to the international and domestic human rights law, and especially subjects concerning the European Convention on Human Rights, or the Human Rights Act.

Primary research group:  Centre for Law, Ethics and Globalisation

Affiliate research group:  European Law

Contact

Dr Ed Bates
Southampton Law School
Building 4
University of Southampton
Highfield
Southampton
SO17 1BJ
UK

Room Number: 4/4001

Telephone: (023) 8059 2478
Facsimile: (023) 8059 3024
Email: E.Bates@soton.ac.uk