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Javier Sebastian Eskauriatza

Assistant Professor of Criminal Law, Faculty of Social Sciences

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Biography

Javier completed his LLB (Law) and LLM (International Law) degrees at the University of Bristol. He obtained his PhD from the University of Birmingham and worked as a teaching fellow and then a lecturer before joining the 糖心原创 School of Law as Assistant Professor of Criminal Law (2022). He is Co-Director of Postgraduate Research Programmes and he convenes the undergraduate Criminal Law course. He has been the Co-Director of the Criminal Justice Research Centre (2023-2026), and the convener of the Criminal Law and Criminal Justice subsection for the UK (2023-2026). He is a member of the Editorial Board of Ex Legibus (Judicial College of the State of Mexico) and he has held visiting scholar positions at La Trobe University, Harvard Law School, Geneva Graduate Institute and Washington and Lee University.

Expertise Summary

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

Javier welcomes PhD proposals in the field of criminal law, criminal procedure, transnational/international criminal law, the jus post bellum, transitional justice, 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: 2027).

J.S. Eskauriatza, 'The Jus Post Bellum and Drug Wars'

J.S. Eskauriatza, 'Universal Jurisdiction: A View from England and Wales'

Selected Publications

  • JAVIER S. ESKAURIATZA, 2026. Asian Journal of International Law. 16(2), 278-305
  • 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
  • JAVIER S ESKAURIATZA, 2027. 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, 2026. Asian Journal of International Law. 16(2), 278-305
  • JAVIER S. ESKAURIATZA, 2026. International Criminal Law Review. 1-9
  • 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. 157-166
  • JAVIER S. ESKAURIATZA, 2025. Jurisprudence.
  • GEMMA DAVIES AND and JOHN CHILD (EDS.), 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>

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