Bill Bowring

Articles in Academic Journals
’The Tatars of the Russian Federation and National-Cultural Autonomy:
A Contradiction in Terms?’ in Karl Cordell and David Smith (eds.) The
Theory and Practice of Cultural Autonomy in Central and Eastern Europe:
Historical and Contemporary Perspectives Special Issue of Ethnopolitics
Vol. 6 n.3, pp417-435; this will soon be published in book form

’Negating Pluralist Democracy: The European Court of Human Rights
Forgets the Rights of the Electors’, (2007) 11 KHRP Legal Review
pp67-96, at
http://www.bbk.ac.uk/law/about/ft-academic/bowring/negatingpluralistdemocracy
this will shortly appear in Russian in the journal of Human Rights:
Practice of the European Court of Human Rights.

’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 Kaj Hober (ed) The Uppsala
Yearbook of East European Law 2004 (London: Wildy, Simmonds and Hill,
2005) pp.89-116 ISBN 1-898029-80-6

’Administrativnaya iyustitsiya v Yevrope: analaticheskiy obzor’
’Administrative Justice in Europe: Analytical Survey’ (2005) No.2 (51)

Sravniteltoye konstitutsionnoye obozrenye (Comparative Constitutional
Review) (Moscow: Institute for Law and Public Policy) pp.31-56

Review of Catherin Dupre "Importing the Law in Post-Communist
Transitions. The Hungarian Constitutional Court and the Right to Human
Dignity (2004) v15, n1 Kings College Law Journal, pp194-198

’Postcolonial Transitions on the Southern Borders of the Former Soviet
Union: The Return of Eurasianism?’ in John Strawson and Roshan de Silva
Wijeyeratne (eds) ‘Tracking the Postcolonial in Law’, special issue of
the Griffith Law Review (2003) v.12, n.2, pp.238-262

’Forbidden Relations? The UK's Discourse of Human Rights and the
Struggle for Social Justice’ (2002) n.1 Law, Social Justice, and Global
Development, at http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/soc/law/elj/lgd/2002_1/bowring

‘Sudebnaya systema i yeyo radikalnaya reforma v Anglii i Uwelse (The
judicial system and its radical reform in England and Wales)’ (2002)
No.3 (4) Konstitutsionnoye Pravo: Vostochnoevropeiskoye Obozreniye
(Constitutional Law: Eastern European Review) pp.2-11 ISSN 1560-7828

’Dolgii put Velikobritanii k evropeiskim standartam prav cheloveka: v
avangarde I daleko pozadi’ (‘The long march of the UK to European
standards of human rights: In the lead and far behind’) (2002) No1 (38)
Konstitutsionnoye Pravo: Vostochnoevropeiskoye Obozreniye
(Constitutional Law: Eastern European Review) pp.37-45 ISSN 1560-7828

’Austro-Marxism's Last Laugh?: The Struggle for Recognition of
National-Cultural Autonomy for Rossians and Russians’(March 2002) v.54,
n.2 Europe-Asia Studies pp.229-250

’Rossiya, Sovet Evropy i Prava Cheloveka’ (Russia, the Council of
Europe and Human Rights’) in A. Avtonomov et al, Rossiya i Sovyet Evropy:
Perspektivy Vzaimodeistviya (Moscow, Institute of Law and Public Policy,
2001) pp.37-59

’Vstupleniye Rossii v Sovet Evropy i prava cheloveka: chetyre goda
spustya’ (‘Russia's accession to the Council of Europe and human rights:
four years on’) Rossiiskii Byulletin po Pravam Cheloveka (2001) No. 14,
pp. 53-66

’Russia's accession to the Council of Europe and human rights: four
years on" (2000) European Human Rights Law Review Issue 4, p.362, ISSN:
1361 1526

’Russia's accession to the Council of Europe and human rights: four
years on’ (2000) Helsinki Monitor: Quarterly on Security and Cooperation
in Europe ISSN 0925-0972 

Chapters in Edited Collections

’Moscow: Third Rome, Model Communist City, Eurasian Antagonist - and
Power as No-Power?’ in Andreas Philippopoulos-Mihalopoulos (ed) Law and
the City (London: Routledge Cavendish, 2007)

’The human rights Implications of international listing mechanisms for
terrorist organisations for Final Report of the OSCE-ODIHR and UN
OHHR Expert Workshop on Human Rights and International Co-operation in
Counter-Terrorism, 15-17 November 2006, Triesenberg, Lichtenstein
ODIHR/GAL 14/07, 21 February 2007, pp.75-113, at
http://www.icj.org/IMG/OSCE-ODIHRReport07.pdf

’Ombudsman Institutions and Ethnic Conflict in Russia and Ukraine: A
Failure of Local Institution-building?’ in European Yearbook of
Minority Issues Vol.4, 2004/5, pp.269-294 (2006, Brill)

’Ideology Critique and International Law: Towards a Substantive
Account of International Human Rights’ in Colin Warbrick and Stephen
Tierney (eds) Towards an International Legal Community? The Sovereignty
of States and the Sovereignty of International Law (London: British
Institute of International and Comparative Law, 2006) pp.193-210

’The Crimean autonomy: innovation or anomaly?’ in Marc Weller and
Stefan Wolff Autonomy, Self-governance and Conflict Resolution:
Innovative approaches to institutional design in divided societies
(Routledge, 2005) pp.75-97, ISBN 0-415-33986-3

’Burial and Resurrection: Karl Renner’s controversial influence on the
’National Question’ in Russia’ in Ephraim Nimni (ed) National-Cultural
Autonomy and its Contemporary Critics (Routledge, 2005) pp.191-206, ISBN
0-415-24964-3

’The reality of human rights in Commonwealth of Independent States
and The Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) and
human rights’ in Rhona Smith and Christien van den Anker (eds) The
Essentials of Human Rights (Hodder & Stoughton Educational, 2005) ISBN:
0340815744

’Law, Customary: Central Asia" in Encyclopedia of Women and Islamic
Cultures, volume 2 (2004, Brill, Leiden)

’Rejected organs? The efficacy of legal transplantation, and the ends
of human rights in the Russian Federation", in Esin Orucu (ed) Judicial
Comparativism in Human Rights Cases (2003) London, United Kingdom
National Committee of Comparative Law, British Institute of
International and Comparative Law, pp.159-182

‘The degradation of international law?’ in John Strawson (ed) Law
After Ground Zero (2002) London, Glasshouse Press ISBN 1-904385-02-8

’Between a (Russian) rock and a (Crimean Tatar) hard place? Ethnic,
linguistic and minority issues’ in Ann Lewis (ed) Ukraine and the EU:
Neighbours, Friends, Partners? (The Federal Trust, 2002)

’Zashchita prav detei v zakonodaelstve Anglii (Protection of Childrens
Rights in English Legislation" pp. 150-163 in Dashkina and others (ed)
Sotsialnoye Zakonodatelstvo Rossii i Velikobritanii (Social legislation
in Russia and Great Britain) (Moscow, Khrisostom Publisher, 2000)

’Russian Children: The Obscenity of Political Fantasy’ in Eric Heinze
(ed) Of Innocence and autonomy: Children, sex and human rights (Ashgate,
Dartmouth, 2000) ISBN 1 84014 484 X

’Ancient Peoples and New Nations in the Russian Federation: Questions
of Theory and Practice’ in Stephen Tierney (ed) Accommodating National
Identity: New Approaches in International and Domestic Law (Kluwer Law
International, 2000) ISBN 90 411 1400 9

’Criticising Judges in Russia’ in Michael Addo (ed) Freedom of
Expression and the Criticism of Judges: A comparative study of European
legal standards (Dartmouth, 2000) ISBN 0 7546 2129 4

’Politics, the Rule of Law and the Judiciary’ in Neil Robinson (ed)
Institutions and Political Change in Russia (Macmillan, 2000) ISBN 0 333
73525 0

Other publications

Background paper ‘The human rights implications of international
listing mechanisms for terrorist organizations’ for Final Report of
the OSCE-ODIHR and UN OHCHR Expert Workshop on Human Rights and
International Co-operation in Counter-Terrorism, 15-17 November 2006,
Triesenberg, Lichtenstein ODIHR/GAL 14/07, 21 February 2007, pp.75-113

Report ‘The Rule of Law in Moldova’ for the International Commission
of Jurists (ICJ), November 2004, at
http://www.icj.org/news.php3?id_article=3598⟨=en

Review of Catherin Dupre ‘Importing the Law in Post-Communist
Transitions. The Hungarian Constitutional Court and the Right to Human
Dignity’ (2004) v.15, n.1 Kings College Law Journal pp.194-198

Conference Papers

2005

9 March 2005 / London Guest lecturer for the Russian MIRBIS MBA students at the London
Metropolitan University

22 May / London
Annual Assembly of the European Association of Lawyers for Democracy and
World Human Rights (EALDH).Elected to the post of President of EALDH

23 June / Centre for Legal Theory, Hamburg, Germany
Seminar: "Law, Colonialism and Violence I: Questions of Foundations"
Presenting a research paper entitled "What is Badiou attacking when he
attacks 'human rights'?

28 June / House of Commons, London
Meeting on the new Constitution of Iraq - acted as constitutional law
and human rights expert. Event hosted by Ann Clwyd MP,

6 July / LondonMet
Higher School of Economics, Summer School
Opening speaker at the Summer School, to visiting Moscow State
University Public Administration students -'Britain and Russia -
similarities, differences, convergences, divergences'

22 September / Moscow State University, Russia
Guest lecturer, presentation to over 100 students on 'The Theory of
Human Rights'.

22 - 24 September / Abakan, Republic of Khaskassia, Russia
Representing the Council of Europe at the International Conference on
'Siberian Indigenous Languages and Cultures in a Changing Russia'. Paper
on the current situation of the European Charter for Regional or
Minority Languages (states of signatures and ratifications, countries
recently monitored, results of the monitoring so far).

29 October / Munich
Represented EALDH at a conference on Consequences of Anti-Terror
Legislation, organised by RAV and Fair Trials Abroad

3 November / Leeds University
Centre for Democratisation Seminar Series: paper on "The Council of
Europe and Protection of Minority Rights"

5-6 November / Sofia, Bulgaria
Represented EALDH at the meeting of the Bureau of the International
Association of Democratic Lawyers

2004

21st October / London
Speaker at the SEQUAL conference "Tackling Discrimination and Promoting
Employability: Combating Social Exclusion"

22nd October / Strasbourg
Council of Europe, project on Education Policy and Minorities - Expert
Meeting. Prof Bowring is the Project Rapporteur.

27th October / London
Speaker at the conference on ID Cards (Dana Centre of the Science Museum)

6th November / Rome
Attendance as Council Member at the Administrative Council of the
European Association of Lawyers for Democracy and World Human Rights
(EALDH)

10th November / Paris
Speaker at the international conference of Jurists "Terrorism Lists:
European and International Law Approach"

14th November / Moscow
Attendance at the International Helsinki Association (IHA) General
Assembly' Prof Bowring is a member of the IHF's Rule of Law Council

15th-17th November / Moscow
Expert work for the EU TACIS project "Development of a System of
Administrative Justice in the Russian Federation"

18th-19th November / Kyiv, Ukraine
Council of Europe; Rapporteur for the final regional conference within
the Educational Policy and Minorities project

30th November / London
Speaker at the seminar on "The Rule of Law in Russia" organised by the
British-Russian Law Association (BRLA) and The Law Society

25th-26th November / Oslo
Presented a paper at the conference "Russia in a Common Legal Space"
organised by the Norwegian Institute of International Affairs" (NUPI)
and the University of Oslo

2nd-3rd December / Ankara, Turkey
Speaker at the International Bar Association's (IBA) workshop "Combating
Torture: Guidance for Judges and Prosecutors"

15th December/ London
Participant in the BIICL International Law Series Conference
'International Legal Positivism: Images of a Tradition'