Expertise
Members of the Human Rights Centre work across a broad spectrum of themes and topics. Although the variety and depth of research in the Human Rights Centre is difficult to capture, broadly speaking there are four main areas of concentration: (i) international human rights, (ii) European and comparative human rights; (iii) human rights in UK law (including the Human Rights Act 1998); and (iv) inter-disciplinary approaches to human rights and human rights theory. Some of our members’ interests span a number of these categories, showing the richness of work undertaken in the Centre.
As well as working in these particular areas of human rights, the members of the Human Rights Centre take a variety of methodological approaches to human rights research and work. Reflecting the spectrum of methodologies across Durham Law School and Durham University more broadly, members of the Centre have particular methodological strengths in socio-legal, comparative, feminist, and hermeneutical approaches. Furthermore, the work in the Centre is frequently inter-disciplinary and draws together strengths that exist across the other research centres and clusters housed in Durham Law School. In this respect, analyses that consider human rights in the context of transitional justice, law and conflict, gender and the law, commercial law, comparative law and EU law are clearly in evidence.
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International Human Rights Including: international human rights instititions & treaties; IHRL & international criminal law; IHRL in international humanitarian law; IHRL & private international law; IHRL and international economic law |
Jonathan Doak Fiona de Londras Michael Bohlander Gleider Hernandez Deirdre McCann Clare McGlynn Aoife O'Donoghue Conor O'Reilly Diana Sankey James Sweeney Matt Saul |
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European and Comparative Human Rights Including: ECHR; Human rights and the EU; comparative constitutional law |
Tom Allen Fiona de Londras Aaron Baker Michael Bohlander Tufyal Choudhury Amandine Garde Laura Graham Roger Masterman Clare McGlynn Conor O'Reilly Gavin Phillipson Eleanor Spaventa Robert Schuetze Ian Leigh Anca Chirita Alexander Williams |
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Human Rights in Domestic Law Including: Human Rights Act 1998; rights-related implications and problematisation of domestic law |
Tom Allen Aaron Baker Tufyal Choudhury Jonathan Doak Lorna Fox-O'Mahony Laura Graham Andrew Hayward Roger Masterman Clare McGlynn David O'Mahony Shaun Pattinson Gavin Phillipson Alexander Williams Ian Leigh |
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Inter-disciplinary approaches to Human Rights & Human Rights Theory Including: philosophy and human rights; socio-legal critiques and applications of rights; feminist legal critiques and applications of rights; theories of global justice |
Tom Allen Fiona de Londras Deryck Beyleveld Angharad Closs Stephens Maria Dimova-Cookson Lorna Fox-O'Mahony Laura Graham Gleider Hernandez Clare McGlynn Claudia Nitschke Aoife O'Donoghue Shaun Pattinson Jo Phoenix Diana Sankey James Sweeney Noa Vaisman Ilan Zvi Baron |