Katharine Fortin

Dr. Katharine Fortin (@KatharineFortin) is an Associate Professor at Utrecht University where she teaches international humanitarian law (IHL), international human rights law (IHRL) and public international law. She is the author of The Accountability of Armed Groups under Human Rights Law (Oxford University Press, 2017) which won the 2018 Francis Lieber Prize from the American Society of International Law. She is co-editor of Armed Groups and International Law: In the Shadowland of Legality and Illegality (Edward Elgar 2023).

She has written widely on non-State armed groups, law-making, rebel governance, sources of law, legal personality and the relationship between international humanitarian law and international human rights law. She is the founder and co-editor of the Armed Groups and International Law blog and the Editor in Chief of the Netherlands Quarterly of Human Rights. She is Co-I on the new Beyond Compliance Consortium, which is led by Ioana Cismas at the University of Yorky and is a a co-productive research partnership between three universities and six humanitarian and human rights organisations. Funded with UK International Development from the UK government, the consortium is developing a three-year theoretical, empirical, and operational research programme “Building Evidence on Promoting Restraint by Armed Actors.” She is also on LinkedIn.