Elizabeth Bruch

Elizabeth Bruch is an Assistant Professor in the School of Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences at the University of Washington Tacoma. She received her J.D. from the University of Wisconsin Law School and her Ph.D. from the University of British Columbia. She previously taught at the University of British Columbia, and on the law faculty at American University’s Washington College of Law, Arizona State University College of Law, and Valparaiso University School of Law. Her research, education and professional experience all center on international law and policy, particularly human rights. She served for two years in post-conflict Bosnia as the Executive Officer of the Human Rights Chamber, a human rights court created by the Dayton Peace Agreement, and she has done human rights fact-finding and related work in Haiti, Namibia, Tanzania, Kosovo, Romania, China, and elsewhere. Her scholarship addresses a range of international legal issues, including humanitarian intervention, human rights, use of international standards in domestic law, gender in international law, human trafficking, and immigration reform. She is the author of Human Rights and Humanitarian Intervention: Law and Practice in the Field (Routledge, 2016).