Andrew Williams

Professor

Head of School
Co-Director of CHRP
Co-Director of Academic Workload Allocation

Human Rights and the European Union; The Laws of War; International Criminal Law

School of Law
S1.38, Social Sciences Building
University of Warwick
Coventry CV4 7AL
United Kingdom

024 765 24996

Scholarship

Andrew's research interests focus on four main areas:

Human rights and creative writing
The laws of war
International criminal law and justice
The philosophy of EU law

He is the founder and co-director of the Centre for Human Rights in Practice, which undertakes human rights projects nationally and internationally whilst also providing students with experience of human rights related work. Projects include:

Writing Wrongs: using literature as a response to injustice
Anti-discrimination advice clinics
Internships with US public defenders

Details of the Centre's work can be found at the CHRP website.

Bio

Andrew qualified as a solicitor in 1986. After commercial practice in London he joined Warwick Law School in 1996. He obtained an LLM in Public Law from the University of Bristol in 1993 and a PhD from the University of Warwick in 2003. He is the author of 'A Very British Killing: the Death of Baha Mousa' (Vintage 2013) which won the George Orwell Prize for Political Writing in 2013. His latest book, 'A Passing Fury: Searching for Justice at the end of WWII' (Jonathan Cape 2016) examines the British investigations and trials of Nazi war criminals after 1945 and was shortlisted for the 2017 CWA Daggers Non-Fiction Award. He is currently co-director of the Centre for Human Rights in Practice and editor-in-chief of Lacuna Magazine.

Publications

Williams, Andrew, 2020. War crimes allegations and the UK : towards a fairer investigative process. Legal Studies, 40 (2), pp. 301-320
Williams, Andrew, 2018. The Iraq abuse allegations and the limits of UK law. Public Law, 2018 (3), pp. 461-481
Williams, Andrew Trevor, 2016. The Chilcot report and the law. The Political Quarterly, 87 (4), pp. 490-495
Williams, Andrew, 2013. The European Convention on Human Rights, the EU and the UK : confronting a heresy. European Journal of International Law, 24 (4), pp. 1157-1185
Williams, Andrew, 2010. Promoting justice after Lisbon : groundwork for a new philosophy of EU law. Oxford Journal of Legal Studies, 30 (4), pp. 663-693
Williams, Andrew, 2009. Taking values seriously : towards a philosophy of EU law. Oxford Journal of Legal Studies, 29 (3), pp. 549-577
Greer, Steven, Williams, A. T., 2009. Human rights in the Council of Europe and the EU: towards 'individual', 'constitutional' or 'institutional' justice?. European Law Journal, Vol.15 (No.4), pp. 462-481
Williams, Andrew, 2007. Human Rights and Law : between sufferance and insufferability. The Law Quarterly Review, 123, pp. 133-158
Williams, Andrew, 2006. The indifferent gesture : article 7 TEU, the Fundamental Rights Agency and the UK's invasion of Iraq. European Law Review, 31 (1), pp. 3-27
Williams, Andrew, 2003. Mapping human rights, reading the European Union. European Law Journal, 9 (5), pp. 659-676
Williams, Andrew, 2003. EU human rights policy and the convention on the future of Europe : a failure of design?. European Law Review, 28 (6), pp. 794-813
Nayar, Jayan, Williams, Andrew, 2002. Excavating the fear in law. Juridiska Foereningen i Finland. Tidskrift, pp. 257-278

Williams , Andrew Trevor, 2017. A passing fury : searching for justice at the end of World War II. London, Vintage
Williams, Andrew, 2015. A Reply to Somek. Kochenov, Dimitry; de Búrca, Gráinne; Williams, Andrew (eds.), Europe?s Justice Deficit, Oxford, United Kingdom, Hart Publishing
Williams, Andrew, 2015. Human rights and the EU. Chalmers, D.; Ar, T. (eds.), The Oxford handbook of EU Law, Oxford University Press
Williams, Andrew, 2015. A reply to Somek. Kochenov, Dimitry; De Bu´rca, G.; Williams, Andrew, 1963- (eds.), Europe's justice deficit?, Oxford, Hart Publishing
Williams, Andrew, 2015. Human Rights in the EU. Ar, Anthony; Chalmers, Damian (eds.), The Oxford Handbook of European Union Law, Oxford University Press
Williams, Andrew, 2015. The problem(s) of justice in the European Union. Kochenov, Dimitry; De Bu´rca, G.; Williams, Andrew, 1963- (eds.), Europe's justice deficit?, Oxford, Hart Publishing
Williams, Andrew, 2015. Problems with Justice in the European Union. Kochenov, Dimitry; de Búrca, Gráinne; Williams, Andrew (eds.), Europe?s Justice Deficit, Oxford, United Kingdom, Hart Publishing
Williams, Andrew, 2015. Introduction. Kochenov, Dimitry; De Bu´rca, G.; Williams, Andrew, 1963- (eds.), Europe's justice deficit?, Oxford, Hart Publishing
Williams, Andrew, 2015. The problem(s) of justice in the European Union. Kochenov, Dimitry; de Búrca, Gráinne; Williams, Andrew (eds.), Europe?s Justice Deficit, Oxford, United Kingdom, Hart Publishing
Williams, Andrew, 2014. The EU and interim global justice. In Amtenbrink, F.; Kochenov, D. (eds.), The EU?s Shaping of the International Legal Order, Cambridge, UK, Cambridge University Press, pp. 38-61
Williams, Andrew, 2012. A very British killing : the death of Baha Mousa. London, Jonathan Cape
Williams, Andrew, 2011. Burying not praising the European Convention on Human Rights : a provocation. In Walker, Neil; Shaw, Jo; Tierney, Stephen (eds.), Europe's constitutional mosaic, Oxford, Hart, pp. 75-96
Williams, Andrew, 2010. The ethos of Europe : values, law and justice in the EU. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press
Williams, Andrew, 2008. International criminal law and Iraq. In Shiner, Phil; Williams, Andrew, 1963- (eds.), The Iraq War and international law, Oxford, Hart Publishing, pp. 117-144
Williams, Andrew, 2007. Respecting fundamental rights in the New Union : a Review. Barnard, Catherine (ed.), The fundamentals of EU law revisited: assessing the impact of the constitutional debate, Oxford, Oxford University Press
Williams, Andrew, 2004. EU human rights policies : a study in irony. Oxford, Oxford University Press
Williams, Andrew, 2004. The (im)possibility of the European Union as a global human rights regime. Brownsword, Roger (ed.), Global governance and the quest for justice. Volume IV, Human rights, Oxford, Hart Publishing
Williams, Andrew, 2002. The human rights act 1998 and the UK law school. Burridge, R.; Hinett, K.; Paliwala, A.; Varnava, T. (eds.), Effective learning & teaching in law, London, Stylus Pub

Williams, Andrew, 2011. Human Rights and the European Court of Justice : past and present tendencies. University of Warwick
Williams , Andrew Trevor, 2009. Promoting justice after Lisbon : prospects for a new philosophy of EU law. Department of Law, University of Warwick

Teaching Projects

Title	Funder	Award start	Award end
PO8: FRA Portal Framework: National Constitutional Law.	European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights	01 Oct 2012	31 Mar 2013
Specific Contract 1: Lot 30 Comparative Analysis	European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights	19 Dec 2011	15 Oct 2012
PO7 FRA Portal Framework: Update for InfoPortal on FRA findings 2011	European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights	01 Apr 2012	01 Sep 2012
FRA2-2008-3310-T03PO7 FRA Portal Framework: Update for InfoPortal on FRA findings 2011	European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights	01 Apr 2012	01 Sep 2012
PO6 International EU Law	European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights	01 Mar 2012	01 Aug 2012
Subproject for Institution # 32947 - PO6 International EU Law	European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights	01 Mar 2012	01 Aug 2012
Costing for P04 of Info Portal Framework	European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights	01 Nov 2010	31 Mar 2011
Updating the InfoBase: International Law, EU Law and National Constitutional Law Sections of the Fundamental Rights Charters Articles	European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights	01 Jan 2010	31 Dec 2010
Updating the InfoBase: International Law, EU Law and National Constitutional Law Sections of the Fundamental Rights Charters Articles	European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights	01 Jan 2010	31 Dec 2010
Specific Contract 2 - Content development for FRA	European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights	01 Jan 2009	30 Jun 2009
Specific Contract 2 - Content development for FRA	European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights	01 Jan 2009	30 Jun 2009
Purchase Order 1 - Updating the InfoBase: 27 EU member states and EU level	European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights	01 Jan 2009	30 Jun 2009
Purchase Order 1 - Updating the InfoBase: 27 EU member states and EU level	European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights	01 Jan 2009	30 Jun 2009

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