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Contact

• workRoom C113 Faculty of Law and Social Sciences
  University Park
  Nottingham
  NG7 2RD
  UK
• Javier.Eskauriatza@nottingham.ac.uk
• /Law/people/javier.eskauriatza

Biography

Javier completed his LLB (Law) and LLM (International Law) degrees at the University of Bristol (2008). He spent a brief period of time in legal practice (defendant insurance; costs) before becoming operations manager in an impost/export business in Mexico. In 2013 he began a PhD under the supervision of the late Professor Robert Cryer and Dr Gavin Byrne on the Colombian post-conflict justice system. He obtained his PhD from the University of Birmingham (2018) and worked as a teaching fellow and then a lecturer before joining the 糖心原创 School of Law as an Assistant Professor of Criminal Law (2022).

He is the Co-Director of the Criminal Justice Research Centre, and the convener of the Criminal Law and Criminal Justice subsection for the .

Expertise Summary

Javier's research focuses on atrocity crimes and issues that arise at the intersection between international law and criminal law. He has a particular interest in the Mexican 'drug war', child soldiers, the International Criminal Court, and critical approaches to the global criminal justice system.

Javier welcomes approaches from prospective PhD students in the field of transitional justice, international criminal justice, international criminal law and global crime problems more generally.

The relevant information for the PhD programme can be found here: /law/study/postgraduate-research/index.aspx

Information on scholarships is here: /law/study/postgraduate-research/funding.aspx.

Teaching Summary

Javier convenes:

• Criminal law (LLB Law)
• Critical approaches to Global Criminal Justice (MA Criminology and Criminal Justice).

Research Summary

Current research:

J.S. Eskauriatza, 'Recruitment of Child Soldiers and Indigenous 'Self-Defence' Militias: Performance, Protest and Politics in Mexico's Drug War' for M.A. Drumbl and J.C. Barrett (eds.) Research Handbook on Child Soldiers (Elgar: 2026).

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Selected Publications

• JAVIER S. ESKAURIATZA, 2025. Asian Journal of International Law. 1-28
• JAVIER S. ESKAURIATZA, 2024. . In: MARK DRUMBL and CAROLINE FOURNET, eds., Sights, Sounds and Sensibilities of Atrocity Prosecutions 6. Brill. 327-346
• JAVIER S. ESKAURIATZA, 2021. Criminal Law Forum. 32, 473 - 509
• JAVIER S. ESKAURIATZA, 2020. Leiden Journal of International Law. 33(1), 189 - 205

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• JAVIER S ESKAURIATZA, 2026. Recruitment of Child Soldiers and Indigenous 'Self-Defence' Militias: Performance, Protest and Politics in Mexico's Drug War. In: MARK DRUMBL and JASTINE BARRETT, eds., Research Handbook on Child Soldiers 2nd. Edward Elgar. (In Press.)
• JAVIER S. ESKAURIATZA, 2025. . In: EMMA BREEZE, MARK DRUMBL, GERRY SIMPSON and MARIANNE WADE, eds., The Character of International Law: A Festschrift for Rob Cryer Bloomsbury.
• JAVIER S. ESKAURIATZA, 2025. Jurisprudence.
• JAVIER S. ESKAURIATZA, 2025. Asian Journal of International Law. 1-28
• GEMMA DAVIES, JAVIER S. ESKAURIATZA and ET AL, 2025. Criminal Law Reform Now Network.
• JAVIER S. ESKAURIATZA, 2024. . In: MARK DRUMBL and CAROLINE FOURNET, eds., Sights, Sounds and Sensibilities of Atrocity Prosecutions 6. Brill. 327-346
• JAVIER S. ESKAURIATZA, 2024. In: Proceedings of the ASIL Annual Meeting. 117.
• JAVIER S. ESKAURIATZA, 2024. OpinioJuris. Available at: <https://opiniojuris.org/2024/05/30/wait-a-minute-mr-postman-legal-implications-of-threats-issued-by-u-s-republican-senators/>
• JAVIER S. ESKAURIATZA, 2024. Korean Journal of Comparative Criminal Law. 10, 295-303
• JAVIER S. ESKAURIATZA, 2023. . In: RICARDO ALFREDO SODI CUELLAR, ed., 驴Qu茅 puede aprender M茅xico de otros pa铆ses en materia de federalismo judicial?: Memoria del Congreso Internacional de Federalismo Judicial Editorial Tirant Lo Blanch. 147-163
• JAVIER S. ESKAURIATZA, 2022. InDret Penal.
• JAVIER S. ESKAURIATZA, 2022. Book Review - Uncomfortable Reading on Transitional Justice: A Review of Nergis Canefe, (ed) Transitional Justice and Forced Migration -Critical Perspectives from the Global South (Cambridge, CUP: 2019 Journal of Immigration, Nationality and Asylum Law. 36, 161-164
• JAVIER S. ESKAURIATZA, 2021. Criminal Law Forum. 32, 473 - 509
• JAVIER S. ESKAURIATZA, 2021. Opinio Juris. Available at: <http://opiniojuris.org/2021/07/16/the-cienfuegos-affair-and-the-proposal-for-a-new-regional-transnational-criminal-court-in-latin-america-copla/>
• JAVIER S. ESKAURIATZA, 2020. Leiden Journal of International Law. 33(1), 189 - 205
• JAVIER S. ESKAURIATZA, 2018. Oxford University Press. Available at: <https://academic.oup.com/jicj/article-abstract/16/5/1122/5273276>