Dr Hannah Baumeister
School of Law
Faculty of Business and Law
Email: H.Baumeister@ljmu.ac.uk
Telephone: 0151 231 3210
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
Internet publication
Baumeister H, Voix de Femmes . 2025. Je Choisis : Parlons du Mariage Forcé Publisher Url
Baumeister H, Carabine A. 2024. Picture this: How can comics teach about forced marriage? Publisher Url
Baumeister H. 2024. Conflict-related forced marriage in Army Of God: Joseph Kony’s War in Central Africa Publisher Url
Baumeister H. 2023. A Statutory Definition of “Honour”-Based Abuse Publisher Url
Baumeister H, Brown E. 2023. I Choose: Let's Talk About Forced Marriage Publisher Url Public Url
Baumeister H, Brown E, Carabine A, Qassim A. 2023. I Choose: Let’s talk About Forced Marriage Educator Guidance Publisher Url Public Url
Baumeister H. 2023. A Review of Daria: A Roma Woman’s Journey Publisher Url
Baumeister H. 2023. So You Want to Make a Comic 2: How we did it Publisher Url
Baumeister H. 2023. M and Others v Italy and Bulgaria: Traditions of Forced Marriage? Publisher Url
Baumeister H. 2023. A Review (or something) of Team Muhafiz and the Child Raiders Publisher Url
Baumeister H. 2023. Even Superheroes Publisher Url
Baumeister H. 2023. “I do – not”: An Introduction to Forced Marriage Publisher Url
Baumeister H. 2020. Graphic Novels: Drawing on Peacebuilding Publisher Url
Baumeister H. 2019. Researching the inner workings of the International Criminal Court Publisher Url
Journal article
Baumeister H, Carabine A. 2024. Drawing on forced marriage The Law Teacher, :1-13 DOI Publisher Url Public Url
McCabe H, Stickle W, Baumeister H. 2022. Forced Marriage and Modern Slavery: Analysing Marriage as a “Choiceless Choice” Journal of Modern Slavery, 7 :33-57 Publisher Url Public Url
Baumeister H. 2019. Drawing on genocide Law and Humanities, 13 :3-28 DOI Publisher Url
Baumeister H. Forced Marriage Real Simple Journal of Human Trafficking, Enslavement and Conflict-Related Sexual Violence, 1 :25-47 DOI Publisher Url
Baumeister H. Legal Deteminism or Progressive Politics – The ICC Negotiations of War Rape and Forced Marriage Cambrian Law Review,
Book review
Baumeister H. 2024. Sara De Vido and Micaela Frulli (ed), Preventing and Combating Violence Against Women and Domestic Violence: A Commentary on the Istanbul Convention, Cheltenham UK & Northampton, MA: Edward Elgar, 2023, 929 pp, Hardback, ISBN: 9781839107740 Liverpool Law Review, DOI Publisher Url Public Url
Dataset
Baumeister H. 2024. Drawing on Forced Marriage: Teaching Tough Topics Through Comics DOI Publisher Url Public Url
Books (authored)
Baumeister H. 2018. Sexualised Crimes, Armed Conflict and the Law: The International Criminal Court and the Definitions of Rape and Forced Marriage :1-251 978-1-138-08512-1
Public engagement:
Public talk or lecture, pupils, invited speaker, Law Factor. 2025
Public talk or lecture, pupils, invited speaker, Language Day. 2025
Public talk or lecture, charities, organiser and speaker, Law in a Teacup. 2024
Public talk or lecture, pupils, invited speaker, Law Factor. 2024
Other, school children, special interest groups, Organiser, Drawing on Forced Marriage, Feedback meetings and comic-based workshops. 2024
Other invited event:
online, Delivered guest lecture on forced marriage to undergrad students at the Faculty of Law, ICFAI University, Raipur, Chhattisgarh, India, Forced Marriage - Human Rights, International Criminal Law and the Domestic Law of UN Member States. 2024
Media Coverage:
Interview with BBC Radio Merseyside about Drawing on Forced Marriage project 2024
Asha Patel & Shannon Samecki, 'Forced marriage comic made to "get students talking"' (BBC News) 2024
LJMU Corporate Comms, Forced marriage explored in new comic for school children 2024
Conference presentation:
Oral presentation, SLSA 2024, Drawing on Forced Marriage. 2024
Oral presentation, Socio-Legal Studies Association Annual Conference, Forced Marriage and Human Rights. 2022
Oral presentation, Slavery Past, Present and Future, “To Have and to Hold”: Forced Marriage, Modern Slavery and National Legislation of the UN Member States. 2021
Oral presentation, Modern Histories of Consent, Intimacy, and Law Symposium, ‘Choiceless Choices’: Consent, Agency, and Marriage. 2021
Oral presentation, SLSA, “To have and to hold”: Forced marriage, modern slavery and national legislation of EU countries. 2021
Oral presentation, Modern Slavery, Forced Labour and Human Trafficking: Research Roadmaps to 2030, Gender and Violence. 2020
Poster presentation, Modern Slavery, Forced Labour and Human Trafficking: Research Roadmaps to 2030, What is Forced Marriage?. 2020
Oral presentation, SLSA, Drawing on Genocide. 2019
Oral presentation, Enslavement, Conflict and Forced Marriage in Africa: Research Methods, Research Ethics, and the Political Economy of Knowledge Production, How to unravel the process of defining war rape and forced marriage in times of armed conflict under the statute of the International Criminal Court. 2018
Oral presentation, Between Slavery and Post-slavery: Citizenship, Dependence, and Abolitionism in African and Indian Ocean Societies, Forced marriage in times of armed conflict – A form of sexual slavery?. 2018
Oral presentation, Women in and at War, Progressive politics or legal determinism? Sexualised crimes and the ICC negotiations. 2016
Oral presentation, Women in and at War, Painting a picture: forced marriage. 2014
Oral presentation, Visualizing Law and Gender, Drawing on Forced Marriage. 2014
Oral presentation, Behind the Lines: Gender in the Bunker of International Security and Defence?, Women in the Military - Forced Wives in Fighting Groups?. 2013
External collaboration:
Afrah Qassim, Savera UK. 2024
Anja Koermer, Childwall Sports and Science Academy. 2024
Catherine Kirk, Nottingham City Council. 2024
Emma Brown, Touch the Sun. 2024
Helen McCabe, University of Nottingham. 2024
Rowena Fletcher, Karma Nirvana. 2024
Ruth Gangneux, Nottingham Girls Academy. 2024
Marine-Emmanuelle Lamour, Voix de Femmes.
Award:
LJMU Faculty of Business and Law, VC Awards for Research and Knowledge Exchange - Excellence in Knowledge Exchange. 2023
Outstanding Postgraduate Teaching Award. 2014
Conference organisation:
Elimination of Violence against Women Conference. 2018
Human Rights Symposium. 2017
Elimination of Violence against Women Conference. 2016
Human Rights Symposium. 2015
Teaching qualification:
Fellow Higher Education Academy. 2017
Other Professional Activity:
Advisory Board Member for Research, Savera UK.
Editorial boards:
Editor, LJMU Student Law Journal.
Research Grants Awarded:
Grant value (£): 56,000, Aberystwyth University, Unravelling the Process of Defining War Rape and Forced Marriage in Times of Armed Conflict Under the Statute of the International Criminal C0ort: Actors and Sturtcures.
Grant value (£): 60,000, AHRC, Drawing on Forced Marriage: Teaching Tough Topics Through Comics.