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Ms Holly Cullen, BCL, LLB, LLM
Contact (email at h.a.cullen@durham.ac.uk)
Biography
Holly Cullen studied law at McGill University in Canada, and practised as an Advocate in Montreal. She then pursued postgraduate studies at the Human Rights Centre, University of Essex, earning an LLM in International Human Rights Law in 1991. She was a lecturer and Assistant Director of the Institute of European Public Law at the University of Hull before coming to Durham as a Lecturer in 1995. In 1998, she was appointed Jean Monnet Senior Lecturer and Deputy Director of the Durham European Law Institute, and served as Acting Director of the Institute in 2004-5. She is also a member of the Human Rights Centre. She was promoted to Reader in 2003.
Her research has focussed on European and international human rights law, with a particular emphasis on the rights of the child. She is author of the forthcoming The Role of International Law in the Elimination of Child Labor (Procedural Aspects of International Law Series, Martinus Nijhoff Publishers), and several articles on aspects of children’s rights. Between 2001 and 2003, she was part of a multi-disciplinary project, funded by the United States Department of Labor, researching into the human rights aspects of child labour.
She also researches into theory of international law and has been a member of the Committee on Theory of International Law of the International Law Association (British Branch) since its inception in 1999.
Teaching Areas
EU law,
Public international law,
Human rights.
Research Interests
- Discrimination law
- European community law, particularly law of the institutions and social policy
- International human rights law
- International labour law, especially child labour
- Rights of the child
Selected Publications
Books: authored
- Cullen, Holly. 2007. The Role of International Law in the Elimination of Child Labor. Martinus Nijhoff. (Additional information) (View publication online)
Books: sections
- Cullen, H.A. 2006. Comparing Attitudes to International Human Rights Petition Systems, in Waters ed. In British and Canadian Perspectives on International Law. Martinus Nijhoff. 131-149.
- Cullen, H. A. 2005. Child Labor Standards: From Treaties to Labels. In Child Labor and Human Rights: Making Children Matter. Weston, B.H. Boulder, Colorado.: Lynne Reinner Publishers. 87-115. (Additional information)
- Cullen, H. A. & Collins H et al 2000. The Interaction of Forms of Regulation in International Labour Law, in H Collins et al, Legal Regulation of the Employment Relation. In Legal Regulation of the Employment Relation. Kluwer. 461-480.
- Cullen, H. A. & Campbell E 1998. The Future of Social Policy-Making in the European Union (with E Campbell), in P Craig and C Harlow (eds), Law-Making in the European Union. In Law-Making in the European Union. Craig & Harlow C Kluwer. 262-284.
Edited works: contributions
- Cullen, H. A. 2004. Children’s Rights. In The EU Charter of Fundamental Rights. Peers, Steve & Ward, Angela Oxford: Hart Publishing. 323-346. (Additional information) (View publication online)
Journal papers: academic
- Cullen, H.A. 2005. Is the European Social Charter a Charter for Children? Irish Jurist 40: 62-85. (Additional information) (View publication online)
- Cullen, H. A. 2002. The Role of History in Thomas Franck’s Fairness in International Law and Institutions. European Journal of International Law 13(4): 927-940. (Additional information) (View publication online)
- Cullen, H. A. & Morrow, K. 2001. International Civil Society in International Law: The Growth of NGO Participation. Non-State Actors and International Law 1(1): 7-39. (Additional information) (View publication online)
- Cullen, H. A. & Charlesworth A 1999. Diplomacy by other means: The Use of Legal Basis Litigation as a Political Strategy by the European Parliament and Member States. Common Market Law Review 36: 1234-1270.
- Cullen, H. A. 1999. The Limits of International Trade Mechanisms in Enforcing Human Rights: The Case of Child Labour. International Journal of Children's Rights 7: 1-29.