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Dr Hannah Baumeister

School of Law

Faculty of Business and Law

Email: H.Baumeister@ljmu.ac.uk

Telephone: 0151 231 3210

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I joined LJMU in September 2021 as a Lecturer in Law. I am also the editor of the LJMU Student Law Journal.

Prior to this, I worked as a lecturer, fellow and tutor in European Cultural History, Law, and Gender and Security in Germany, Mauritius and the UK.

In the academic year 2024/25, I teach Criminal Law and International Criminal Law and lead Family and Child Law.

My research focuses on (conflict-related) gender-based violence, its causes, consequences and ways of addressing. While my early research examined the psycho-social work with survivors of war rape in the former Yugoslavia, my doctoral research centred on legal responses. It analysed the politics behind the international criminalisation of war rape and forced marriage in times of armed conflict under the statute of the International Criminal Court. In 2023, I won AHRC Follow-On Funding for Impact and Engagement to develop a comic about forced marriage to teach young teenagers about this harmful practice and support their development as allies to those at risk or already experiencing it. You can find out more about the project here: https://drawingon.blog/. My broader research interests include the intersections between forced marriage and modern slavery, the role of civil society in law making and conflict-related justice, non-violent conflict resolution, transitional justice, and visual representations, especially of conflicts and women. Geographically, my work focuses on the Western Balkans and Sub-Saharan Africa, especially Rwanda, Uganda, the DRC, CAR, Sierra Leone, and Liberia.

Languages

German
English
French

Degrees

2016, Aberystwyth University, United Kingdom, PhD Law
2011, Swansea University, United Kingdom, MA War and Society
2010, University of Bremen, Germany, BA Integrated European Studies

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