Guests
From time to time we invite academics, advocates, activists and others to contribute to HRinI. Below are the biographies of guest authors with links to their posts here on HRinI. To suggest a guest post, e-mail editors[at]humanrights.ie
Christine Bell is Director of the Transitional Justice Institute and Professor of Public International Law at University of Ulster (based at Magee Campus). Her biography can be accessed here. Christine’s post on Bloody Sunday and Human Rights in Northern Ireland
Seyla Benhabib; the Eugene Meyer Professor of Political Science and Political Philosophy at Yale University
Noeline Blackwell is a solicitor and the Director General of the Free Legal Advice Centres. Noeline’s post in our HRinI Blog Symposium on Carmody v Minister for Justice (2009)
Saoirse Brady is Policy and Campaigns Officer with the Free Legal Advice Centres (FLAC). Saoirse’s post on FLAC’s One Size Doesn’t Fit All report
Marie Breen-Smyth is an Adjunct Professor at Smith College, Massachusetts, USA, Director of the Centre for the Study of Radicalisation and Contemporary Political Violence at Aberystwyth University in the UK, and from February 2011 Professor of International Politics at the University of Surrey, UK.
Kevin J. Brown is a Lecturer in Law at Newcastle University whose research focuses on criminal and community justice. Kevin’s post on the impact of the 2010 UK General Election on the nationalist/republican parties in Northern Ireland.
Laura Cahillane is a Ph.D. candidate at UCC researching the drafting of the Free State Constitution. Post on Judical Review in Ireland
Nicola Carr is a Lecturer in Social Work at Queen’s University Belfast and her full profile is available here. Nicola’s contribution to our carnival on the proposed Children’s Rights Amendment
Neil Cobb is a Lecturer in Law at Durham University. Neil’s principal research interests are housing law and policy, criminal law and criminology, discrimination law and law and sexuality.
John Collins is a PhD candidate in the International History Department of the London School of Economics
Dug Cubie is a PhD Candidate at UCC and has worked with the Irish Refugee Council and the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees. Dug’s main research interests are in the areas of humanitarian assistance, international development and refugee protection.
Siobhán Cummiskey is the managing solicitor of the Irish Traveller Movement Independent Law Centre, which works to promote the rights of Travellers through strategic litigation, legal education and policy work. Siobhan’s Post on Travellers.
Brenda Daly lectures law at Dublin City University. Brenda’s post on A, B & C v. Ireland.
Aoife Daly is Child and Family Law Lecturer at University of Essex. She also teaches the International Law of Children’s Rights at the Irish Centre for Human Rights, National University of Ireland, Galway. Aoife has also worked for Save the Children UK, Amnesty International and the Children’s Research Centre, Trinity College Dublin. Aoife’s post on the Civil Partnership and Certain Rights and Obligations of Cohabitants Act 2010.
Paul Daly is a visiting researcher at the Harvard Law School and is pursuing a PhD at the University of Cambridge.Paul’s post in our HRinI Blog Symposium on Carmody v Minister for Justice (2009)
Dr Fergal Davis is a lecturer in law at Lancaster University and the author of The history and development of the Special Criminal Court, 1922-2005 (Dublin, Four Courts press, 2007). Fergal’s Post on Non-Jury Trials
Dr Elaine Dewhurst is a lecturer in law at Dublin City University. Immigration Blog Carnival Post-Budget 2010 Blog Carnival Post
Larry Donnelly is currently the manager of Public Interest Law Alliance (PILA). He is on leave from his post as Lecturer & Director of Clinical Legal Education at NUI Galway. Larry is also an Attorney at Law.
Michael Farrell is Senior Solicitor at FLAC, a member of the Irish Human Rights Commission and of the Human Rights Committee of the Law Society. He was formerly a solicitor in private practice and has taken cases to the UN Human Rights Committee, the European Court of Human Rights and the European Committee of Social Rights. Michael’s post on the Lydia Foy case can be found here.
Ruth Fletcher is a Senior Lecturer in Law at Keele University and the author of Reproductive Life: Governing Abortion in Transnational Times (Ashgate, due 2011). Her post on A, B & C v. Ireland is here.
Lorna Fox O’Mahony is Professor of Law at Durham Law School. Lorna’s research interests are strongly oriented around social analyses of property law, applying policy-oriented, socio-legal and theoretical perspectives to a range of property issues. Lorna’s post was on the Rialto Rights in Action programme.
Conor Gearty is Professor of Human Rights Law at LSE, a barrister and founder member of Matrix Chambers, and a fellow of the British Academy.
Mary Gilmartin lectures at the Department of Geography at NUI Maynooth. Her post on A, B & C v. Ireland is here.
Maeve O’Rourke is a graduate of UCD and Harvard Law School and will be working for Equality Now on the Harvard Law School Global Human Rights Fellowship in 2010-11. Maeve’s previous posts on the Magdalene Laundries abuse are here, here and (with Prof James M. Smith) here.
Suzanne Egan is a lecturer in UCD School of Law and a member of the Irish Human Rights Commission. Suzanne’s post on a Charter of Rights for the island of Ireland
Ted Goodnight was born and raised in western North Carolina. He enlisted in the Army National Guard at 17 in his senior year of high school. He participated in five humanitarian aid missions after natural disasters, including Hurricane Katrina, and a combat deployment to Afghanistan. He completed Army Professional Development training courses including Basic Non-Commissioned Officer Course and Warrant Officer Candidate School. He has a Bachelor’s Degree in Forest Management from North Carolina State University. He is a member of Iraq Veterans Against War.
Diarmuid Griffin is a Lecturer in Law at NUI Galway and a PhD candidate at University College Dublin School of Law. Guest Post on Restorative Justice
Patrick Hanafin is Professor of Laws at Birkbeck College, University of London
Dannie Hanna is a graduate of NUI Galway (BCL) and Cambridge (LLM). He is currently a researcher with the Law Reform Commission. In the past, he has undertaken research for INTERIGHTS, the Centre for Disability Law and Policy, NUI Galway, and is the Human Rights Officer for the Student International Bar Association. Guest Post on the Texas Defender Service and the Death Penalty.
Professor Colin Harvey is Professor of Human Rights Law and the Head of the Law School at Queen’s University Belfast and a member of the Northern Ireland Human Rights Commission. Guest Post on the Bill of Rights for Northern Ireland
Andrew Hayward is a Lecturer in Family Law at Durham Law School andcompleting his PhD in family property law. Guest Blog on Cohabitation in England and Wales: Learning from Ireland?
Rachel Herron is currently a PhD student at Durham Law School. Having previously work as a solicitor, both in private practice and as in house counsel, Rachel is currently undertaking research in the area of counter-terrorism and racial profiling.
Tom Hickey is a PhD candidate at the Law school, NUI Galway. Guest Post on Religious Patronage of Irish Primary Schools
Danielle Kennan is a Researcher with the Child and Family Research Centre (CFRC) in NUI, Galway. Budget 2010 Blog Carnival Post-Guest Post on Ireland and the Universal Periodic Review- Co-authored post on UPR Symposium: The Rights of the Child
Jo Kenny is Legal Officer at the Public Interest Law Alliance (PILA), a project of the Free Legal Advice Centres (FLAC). Jo’s post on Carson v UK
Dr Ursula Kilkelly is a Senior Lecturer in the Faculty of Law, University College Cork where she is also co-director of the Centre for Criminal Justice and Human Rights. Ursula’s contribution to our carnival on the Constitutional Amendment on the rights of the child.
Fergal Landy is a researcher at the Child and Family Research Centre , NUI Galway where he lectures on the Higher Diploma/Masters Degree in Family Support Studies (NUI Galway)- Budget 2010 Blog Carnival Post- Co-authored post on UPR Symposium: The Rights of the Child
Thomas MacManus is an Attorney-at-Law of the New York Bar, a Fellow of the International State Crime Initiative and a doctoral candidate at the School of Law at King’s College London.
Interview in State Crime Mini-Carnival
MacManus on Trafigura
Dr Louise Mallinder lectures at the Transitional Justice Institute, University of Ulster where she coordinates research in ‘Dealing with the Past’. She is the author of Amnesty, Human Rights and Political Transitions: Bridging the Peace and Justice Divide (Hart Publishing, 2008), for which she was awarded the 2009 Hart SLSA Early Career Award and was jointly awarded the 2009 British Society of Criminology Book Prize.
Chelsea Marshall is a PhD candidate in the School of Law at Queen’s University working with the Childhood, Transition and Social Justice Initiative. Chelsea’s guest contribution.
Agnieszka Martynowicz is responsible for implementing the Research and Policy Programme and developing links with academic and research bodies in the field of penal reform for the Irish Penal Reform Trust. Immigration Blog Carnival
Dr. Pádraig McAuliffe lectures at the University of Dundee and is a graduate of University College Cork.
Siobhan McCarthy is an Irish solicitor and is presently volunteering in Kenya with the Federation of Women Lawyers, the oldest women’s rights organisation in Eastern Africa. Siobhán’s post on the proposed Kenyan constitution.
Niamh McMahon is currently a PhD student at the Department of Politics and International Studies at the University of Cambridge, where she is exploring the role of learning in policy-making processes, looking in particular at immigrant integration policy. Niamh’s post on The Long and Winding Road to Immigration Legislation in Ireland.
Rossa McMahon is a solicitor in Patrick G. McMahon Solicitors, Newcastle West Co. Limerick and practises primarily in civil and criminal litigation. Gangland Law: Crime Fighting Tool or Gimmick?
Adie Mormech is a human rights advocate based in the Gaza Strip having arrived in through the Rafah border in March 2010. He was previously abducted by the Israeli navy from the 8th Free Gaza Movement boat, the Spirit of Humanity. He is a volunteer with the International Solidarity Movement and documenting Israel’s ongoing attacks on Palestinians in Gaza.
Fiona Morrissey is a PhD candidate on the use of advance directives in mental health care in NUI Galway. She also lectures on the part-time law degree at Athlone IT where she is a librarian with responsibility for legal information sources. Advance Directives in Mental Health Care
Dr Tanya ni Mhuirthile is an IRCHSS Post-Doctoral Research Fellow at University College Cork Faculty of Law.
Jane Mulcahy is the Research and Policy Officer for the Irish Penal Reform Trust-Guest post on UPR Symposium: The Rights of Prisoners
Colm O’Cinneide is Reader in Laws at University College London. He is the author of several books, including Discrimination Law: Theory and Context (with Malik and Bamforth).
David O’Dwyer is a PhD candidate in the University of Limerick, working with Prof Dermot Walsh. His thesis is examining “The Necessity, Legitimacy and legality of a DNA Identification Database in Ireland”, for which he was awarded a government of Ireland Research Scholarship in the Humanities and Social Sciences in 2009.
Dr. Stephen Donoghue is a final year law student at Griffith College Dublin and a case worker on the Irish Innocence Project. Stephen completed his PhD at the University of Leicester in Molecular Pathology in 2000 and has worked for a number of biotechnology and pharmaceutical companies. Stephen was also a postdoctoral research fellow at the Brigham and Women’s Hospital at Harvard Medical School. He can be reached at stevedonog33@yahoo.com.
Gráinne Mellon is a pupil barrister at 36 Bedford Row Chambers in London. She is a graduate of Trinity College Dublin and the London School of Economics where she specialised in immigration and human rights law. Gráinne’s guest post on asylum seekers and permission to work.
Roderic O’Gorman lectures in European Union Law and Irish Constitutional Law in Griffith College Dublin and is currently undertaking a PhD thesis looking at Social Rights and European Union Citizenship. Roderic’s post on Workers’ Rights and the Lisbon Treaty
Dr Conor O’Mahony lectures in constitutional law at the Faculty of Law in University College Cork. Conor’s contribution to our carnival on the Constitutional Amendment on the rights of the child.
Mary O’ Shea is the UN Universal Periodic Review Coordinator based in the Irish Council for Civil Liberties- Guest Post on UPR Symposium: Irish Civil Society Engagement
Suzannah Phillips is a Legal Fellow in the International Legal Program at the Center for Reproductive Rights and the primary author of the report, Dignity Denied: Violations of the Rights of HIV-Positive Women in Chilean Health Facilities.
Dr Fergus Ryan is a lecturer in law at the Dublin Institute of Technology where he was formerly Head of the Department of Law. Fergus’ contribution to our carnival on the Constitutional Amendment on the rights of the child.
Stacey Scriver is a Post-Doctoral Researcher at the Global Women’s Studies Programme in the School of Political Science and Sociology, NUI Galway. Guest post on UPR Symposium: Women’s Human Rights-Adult Rape and Sexual Violence
Lisa Smyth is a Lecturer in Sociology at Queen’s University Belfast and author of the book Abortion and Nation: The Politics of Reproduction in Contemporary Ireland. Guest post on A, B & C v. Ireland.
Anna Stilz is a professor of politics at Princeton University. She is author of the book ‘Liberal Loyalty: Freedom, Obligation, and the State’
Paulina Tambakaki is a Research Fellow in Political Theory at the University of Westminster. She is author of the book Human Rights, Or Citizenship
Catherine Turner is a lecturer in law at the Transtitional Justice Institute, School of Law, University of Ulster. Catherine’s guest post on Northern Ireland and Human Rights.
Jillian van Turnhout is the Chief Executive of the Children’s Rights Alliance and the Vice-Chairperson of European Movement Ireland. She is a member of the European Economic and Social Committee, on the Management Committee of the National Economic and Social Forum and a member of the National Youth Work Advisory Committee. Jillian’s post on Budget 2010 and the Rights of the Child
Rachael Walsh is a Ph.D. candidate and Ussher Fellow at Trinity College, Dublin, researching the constitutional protection of private property in Ireland. Post on Compulsory acquisition for Private Development
Kate Waterhouse is a Ph.D. candidate in the School of Social Work and Social Policy, Trinity College Dublin researching interpreting services and access to justice for limited English proficient defendants in Irish District Criminal Courts. Contact waterhok@tcd.ie
Darius Whelan is a lecturer in law at University College Cork and author of Mental Health Law and Practice (Round Hall, 2009). He is president of the Irish Mental Health Association.
Patricia Lewsley is Northern Ireland Commissioner for Children and Young People (NICCY).
