People and Expertise
Staff with expertise on human rights in the School of Advanced Study
| Name and Institute | Research interests |
|---|---|
| Maxine Molyneux, Professor of Sociology, Institute for the Study of the Americas | Women’s rights, globalisation, human rights, citizenship, and social policy in Latin America. |
| Damien Short, Senior Lecturer in Human Rights, Institute of Commonwealth Studies | Indigenous peoples, reconciliation and the social construction of land rights; sociological and anthropological approaches to human rights, indigenous rights, reconciliation initiatives and genocide studies. |
| Avrom Sherr, Professor of Law, Institute of Advanced Legal Studies | The development of legal education, the sociology of the legal profession, ethics in professional work and the provision of legal services. He has also been involved in human rights generally and has written in the area of freedom of protest. Discrimination relating to AIDS/HIV and the issues of welfare rights provision within health care. |
| Par Engstrom, Lecturer in Human Rights, Human Rights Consortium | Regional human rights institutions both comparatively and with a particular reference to the inter-American human rights system and its capacity to shape domestic human rights politics in Latin America. Further research interests include the relationship between human rights and democratization; judicialization of politics; transitional justice; the international relations of the Americas; theories of international relations, particularly relating to international law and institutions; and interdisciplinary approaches to the study of human rights. |
| Corinne Lennox, Lecturer in Human Rights, Institute of Commonwealth Studies | Ethnic, religious and linguistic minorities; minority rights protection; indigenous peoples’ rights; rights of Afro-descendants in Latin America; caste-based discrimination and Dalit human rights; human rights and development; human rights-based approaches to development; transnational social mobilisation and non-state actors in international relations; human rights norms in international society; and human rights education. |
| David Cantor, Lecturer in Human Rights, Institute of Commonwealth Studies | Human rights law; refugee law; the law of armed conflict; international criminal law; protection in practice; dynamics of armed conflict and forcible displacement; refugees and IDPs; returns of displaced persons; State and non-State actors in armed conflicts; international humanitarian organisations; Colombia and Papua New Guinea; research methodology; and human rights/refugee law promotion and advocacy. |
| Kirrily Pells, Associate Fellow, Human Rights Consortium | Children and young people in post-conflict Rwanda |
| Philip Murphy, Director of the Institute of Commonwealth Studies, Professor of British and Commonwealth History, Joint editor, Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History | History; Human rights; Politics; Colonies & Colonization; emigration & immigration; Contemporary History; International Relations; Modern Histor |
Associates and their expertise
The Human Rights Consortium has invited a number of academics working on human rights to become Associates of the Consortium. Their names and research interests are below:
| Name and affiliation | Research interests |
|---|---|
| Professor Mats Berdal, Department of War Studies, King's College London | Strategic Studies, conflict and development, the UN and international security, comparative civil wars, Cold War history. www.kcl.ac.uk/schools/sspp/ws/people/academic/professors/berdal |
| Dr Corinne Caumartin, CRISE, Oxford University | Latin American politics, comparative politics, public security, civil-military relations, policing and police reform. www.crise.ox.ac.uk/corinne.shtml |
| Dr Phil Clark, Research Fellow in Courts and Public Policy, Centre for Socio-Legal Studies, University of Oxford; Convenor, Oxford Transitional Justice Research | Transitional justice; history, law and politics of the African Great Lakes; customary law; International Criminal Court. www.csls.ox.ac.uk/associates/phil_clark.php |
| Dr Cath Collins, Universidad Diego Portales, Chile | A database mapping trials for past human rights violations in Chile, linked to a regional research agenda with partner organisations in Argentina, Uruguay, Paraguay and Peru; The politics of memorialisation in the Southern Cone; International and national dynamics in ‘post-transitional justice’; The Pinochet case and the impact of domestic human rights trials in Chile; Human rights legislation in the Chilean Constitutional Court; Post-conflict policy exchanges between Northern Ireland and Latin America. www.udp.cl/academicos/directorio_profesores_detalle.asp |
| Dr Andrea Cornwall, Institute of Development Studies | The anthropology of participation and democracy, masculinities, women's empowerment and women's rights, and sexualities. www.ids.ac.uk/index.cfm |
| Dr Lorie Charlesworth, Liverpool John Moores University | Socio-legal reconstructions of the Poor Law; and ‘Minor’ Allied war crimes trials after World War II. www.ljmu.ac.uk/LAW/91988.htm |
| Dr Pilar Domingo, Overseas Development Institute | Accountability, rule of law, and justice sector reform; rights-based citizenship and legal empowerment for vulnerable groups through rights claims; transitional justice issues, and democratization, institution-building and state reform. Her region of expertise is Latin America, with a special interest in Bolivia. www.odi.org.uk/about/staff/profile.asp |
| Dr Nigel Eltringham, University of Sussex | www.sussex.ac.uk/profiles/158813 |
| Professor Roberto Gargarella, Universidad Torcuato di Tella | Human rights, social rights, judicial review. Also working on issues related to Latin American Constitutionalism, institutional design and democratic theory. www.utdt.edu//ver_contenido.php |
| Dr Jeremie Gilbert, Middlesex University | Indigenous peoples, minorities, nomadic peoples, development, land rights. www.mdx.ac.uk/aboutus/staffdirectory/Jeremie_Gilbert.aspx |
| Professor Susan James, Birkbeck College | The history of political philosophy in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, including debates about the nature of rights; contemporary political philosophy, including the relations of rights and powers; women's rights. www.bbk.ac.uk/phil/staff/academics/james |
| Dr Todd Landman, University of Essex | Dr Todd Landman is Professor of Government (from October 2009) and Director of the Centre for Democratic Governance at the University of Essex. He is author of Protecting Human Rights (Georgetown 2005), Studying Human Rights (Routledge 2006), Human Rights Volumes 1-IV (Sage 2009) among other books and articles in political science. He is the incoming President of the Human Rights Section of the American Political Science Association. His research interests include the measurement and analysis of human rights,theories of international relations and comparative politics, and comparative methods. www.essex.ac.uk/government/staff/profile.aspx |
| Tom Pegram, New York University School of Law | International human rights law, comparative government, new institutionalism, political accountability theory, national human rights institutions, Latin American politics. www.its.law.nyu.edu/facultyprofiles/profile.cfm |
| Dr Rachel Sieder, CIESAS Mexico | Indigenous rights, human rights, judicial reform, access to justice, and legal pluralism. She is particularly interested in the impacts of globalization and specifically legal globalization on state formation in Latin America. www.americas.sas.ac.uk/about/rachel.htm |
| Dr Fiona Macaulay, University of Bradford | Latin America, especially Brazil; human rights policy; political parties (participation, gender, the Brazilian Workers’ party); gender policies (domestic violence, political representation); women’s movements and the state; reform of criminal justice systems, especially the police, prisons, access to justice and civil society involvement. www.brad.ac.uk/acad/peace/staff/academic/macaulay_f/ |
| Dr Leslie Vinjamuri, School of Oriental and African Studies | Transitional justice (especially during ongoing conflict and in peace negotiations); religious organizations in transitional justice, humanitarianism, and peacebuilding; domestic consequences of counterterrorism in democratic states; the politics of international law and human rights. www.cisd.soas.ac.uk/index.asp-Q-Page-E-leslie-vinjamuri--64973086 |
| Lars Waldorf, Senior Lecturer in Human Rights, Centre for Applied Human Rights, University of York | Mass violence, transitional justice, international criminal justice, and legal anthropology, with a focus on sub-Saharan Africa. www.york.ac.uk/inst/cahr/staff/lw.htm |
| Dr Alexandra Xanthaki, Brunel Law School | Indigenous rights and the concept of multiculturalism in international law. www.brunel.ac.uk/law/people/academic/alexandra-xanthaki |
| Professor Philippe Sands, Professor of Law, University College London | Public international law, the settlement of international disputes (including arbitration), and environmental and natural resources law. www.ucl.ac.uk/laws/academics/profiles/index.shtml |
