Professor Bill Bowring is a practising barrister, and teaches Human Rights and Public International Law at Birkbeck College, University of London. He is Chair of the European Human Rights Advocacy Centre (EHRAC), taking cases to the European Court of Human Rights against Russia and other post-Soviet countries; is active in the Haldane Society of Socialist Lawyers and the Bar Human Rights Committee; and is a Trustee of the Redress Trust, and of Lawyers for Palestinian Human Rights (LPHR). He is the author of more than 100 publications. His most recent book is Law, Rights and Ideology in Russia: Landmarks in the Destiny of a Great Power (Routledge, 2013).