Staff Profiles

Dr. Aoife O'Donoghue

Lecturer in Durham Law School

Telephone: +44 (0) 191 33 42810

Fax: +44 (0) 191 33 42801

Room number: PCL125

Member of the Human Rights Centre

Member of the Institute of Commercial and Corporate Law

Member of Law and Conflict at Durham

Contact Dr. Aoife O'Donoghue (email at aoife.o'donoghue@durham.ac.uk)

Biography

Aoife has been a lecturer at Durham Law School since 2007. Previously, she was a lecturer in the Law Department at NUI, Galway, Ireland. She holds degrees from the University of Groningen (PhD), City University, London (LLM) and University College Cork (Bcl International) with a year studying at St. Louis University, Missouri.

Research

Aoife's research focuses on public international law with a specific interest in international governance. Aoife's current research centres on international constitutionalisation and the legal structures which have developed within international law to regulate governance. She has published a number of articles on international constitutionalisation, good offices, neutrality as well as the role of law in conflict. Building on her international law focus, Aoife research expores the relationship between feminism and international law. As part of this research, with Máiréad Enright of Kent Law School and Julie McCandless of LSE, Aoife is Co-Director of the Irish Feminist Judgments Project. The project builds on the Feminist Judgments Project, which was also a collaboration between academics at Kent and Durham. Aoife was one of the founding contributors to humanrights.ie and regularly contributes articles on her research relating to current developments in international law. Aoife has also been a Visiting Scholar at the Lauterpacht Centre for International Law at Cambridge and the British Institute for International and Comparative Law. Aoife is also a member of the International Law Association's working group on due diligence.

Teaching and Administration

Aoife teaches on the LLM courses, Advanced Issues in International Economic Law, Law of the WTO and International Perspectives on Law and Gender. She also supervises dissertations in these areas on the undergraduate and LLM programmes. Aoife also supervises several PhD students and would welcome research students in the areas of public international law, particularly international governance, constitutionalisation and feminism.

In addition to her research and teaching commitments Aoife is also the Director of LLM Admissions and co-convenes the 'Law and Conflict at Durham' (LCD) research cluster with Dr. Gleider Hernández, a cluster Aoife also co-founded.

Grants Awarded

2012: Modern Law Review Seminar Funding (with Dr. Gleider I Hernández)

Publications

Books: authored

O'Donoghue, Aoife (Forthcoming). Constitutionalism in Global Constitutionalisation. Cambridge University Press.

Books: sections

O'Donoghue, Aoife (Forthcoming). Breaking Free: Dag Hammarskjöld and Good Offices. In Peace, Diplomacy, Global Justice and International Agency: Rethinking Human Security and Ethics in the Spirit of Dag Hammarskjöld. Stahn, C CUP.
O'Donoghue, Aoife. & O'Callaghan, Patrick. (2010). Protection from Unfair Suretyships in Ireland. In Regulating Unfair Banking Practices in Europe: The Case of Personal Suretyships. Colombi Ciacchi, A. & Weatherill, S. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 339-352.

Conference papers

O'Donoghue, Aoife (2012), The Plurality of Courts in International Law: Constitutionalisation or Fragmentation?, The Role of Judiciaries in Resolving Conflicts: Judicial Reflections. Durham.
O'Donoghue, Aoife (2011), Breaking Free: Dag Hammarskjold and Good Offices, Peace diplomacy, global justice and international agency: Rethinking human security and ethics. The Hague, November, 2011.
O'Donoghue, Aoife. (2011), The State and Constitutionalism, International Law Association. Sheffield.
O'Donoghue, Aoife. (2009), Examining the International Community and its relationship with International Law, Society of Legal Scholars Conference. Keele.
O'Donoghue, Aoife. (2009), The Meaning of Community in International Law, Annual Meeting of the Law and Society Association in Denver. Colorado.
O'Donoghue, Aoife. (2008), Ireland and the WTO: Doha Tango, Society of Legal Scholars, Ireland Annual Conference. Trinity College Dublin.
O'Donoghue, Aoife. & Hinds, Anna-Louise (2006), Call it what you will: The Doha Development Round and Ireland, Irish Association of Law Teachers, Annual Conference. Cork.
O'Donoghue, Aoife. (2005), The Good Offices of the United Nations Secretary General, Society of Legal Scholars Conference. Glasgow, Scotland.
O'Donoghue, Aoife. (2005), The Means to Destroy Itself: The Challenge for European Democracy, NUI Galway Law Faculty Seminar Series. Galway, Northern Ireland.

Journal papers: academic

O'Donoghue, Aoife (Forthcoming). International Constitutionalism and the State. International Journal of Constitutional Law
O'Donoghue, Aoife (2013). Good Offices: Grasping the Place of Law in Conflict. Legal Studies
O'Donoghue, Aoife (2012). Agents of Change: Academics and the Spirit of Debate at International Conferences. Cambridge Journal of International and Comparative Law 1(3): 275-297.
O'Donoghue, Aoife (2012). Alfred Verdross and the Contemporary Constitutionalization Debate. Oxford Journal of Legal Studies 32(4): 799-822.
O'Donoghue, Aoife (2012). Splendid Isolation: International Humanitarian Law, Legal Theory and the International Legal Order. Yearbook of International Humanitarian Law 14(1): 107-131.
O'Donoghue, Aoife (2010). Case note: Investigation of Disappearances: Gongadze v Ukraine. Irish Human Rights Law Review 1: 299-303.
O'Donoghue, Aoife. (2010). Neutrality and Multilateralism after the First World War. Journal of Conflict and Security Law 15 (1): 169 - 202.
Hinds, Anna-Louise. & O'Donoghue, Aoife. (2008). Ireland and the WTO: Dancing at the crossroads. Irish Studies in International Affairs 19: 169-182.
O'Donoghue, Aoife. (2008). The Inimitable Form of Irish Neutrality: From the Birth of the State to World War II. Dublin University Law Journal 30(1): 259 - 278.
O'Donoghue, Aoife. & Hinds, Anna-Louise (2006). The results of the Hong Kong Ministerial Conference- Part I: Little More than an agreement to agree? Commercial Law Practitioner 67 -74
O'Donoghue, Aoife. (2006). The results of the Hong Kong Ministerial Conference- Part II: Ireland – Ignoring Reality? Commercial Law Practitioner 92 – 98
O'Donoghue, Aoife. (2005). Humanitarian Intervention Revisited. Hanse Law Review 165 -175.

Other media: research

(Published). Human Rights in Ireland.
O'Donoghue, Aoife. (2009). Report on NATO.