Tatyana Eatwell

Practice Areas

Public international law, international human rights law

Career

Called 2007

PhD (Cantab)

Tatyana advises and represents States, individuals, and organisations on a wide range of public international law and international human rights law issues that include diplomatic protection, freedom of expression and the protection of journalists, arbitrary detention, extra-judicial killing, extraordinary rendition, terrorism and armed conflict, torture, gender-based violence, sanctions, and self-determination. She also advises on matters concerning the investigation and prosecution of war crimes, crimes against humanity and genocide in domestic courts and the International Criminal Court, and on related matters of State responsibility.

Cases include:

• R (Kanu) v Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs [2023] EWCA Civ 796

• Barnett LBC v AG (A Child) [2022] EWCA Civ 1505

• R v Reeves Taylor [2019] UKSC 51

• Re. Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe

Professional Memberships

International Law Association (British Branch)

Publications

‘Rebel governors in areas of limited statehood: State responsibility and “agents of necessity”’ in Hamid, L. and Wouters, J. (eds.), Rule of Law and Areas of Limited Statehood (Edward Elgar, 2021)

‘State Responsibility for Human Rights Violations Committed in a State’s Territory by Armed Non-State Actors’ (The Geneva Academy of International Humanitarian Law and Human Rights Law, December 2018)

‘State Responsibility, “Successful” Insurrectional Movements and Governments of National Reconciliation’ in Summers, J. and Gough, A. (eds.), Non-State Actors and International Obligations (Martinus Njihoff, 2018)

‘Selling the Pass: Habeas corpus, diplomatic relations and the protection of liberty and security of persons detained abroad’ (2013) 62 ICLQ 727