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Final Reports Published – on ‘Role of Bar Associations’ and ‘Boycotting Unfair Legal Proceedings’
The last in our series of ‘user-friendly’ reports have now been published and are available to download here. The penultimate paper in this series (prepared by Jonathan Porter, in association with the Lawyers, Conflict and Transition team) examines the role of Bar Associations in Conflict & Crisis. It is also …
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Briefing Paper on Protection of Lawyers in Conflict & Crisis
Our latest report – on the protection of lawyers in conflict and crisis – has just been published and is available to download here. This paper is guided by three fundamental principles: Lawyers are particularly vulnerable to intimidation and threats to professional and personal wellbeing in jurisdictions experiencing crisis or …
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Report on Lawyers, Conflict & Transition in South Africa
Our latest report – this time focusing on the role of legal practitioners in the struggle for equality and justice in South Africa – is available to download here. The report was prepared by Ms Venitia Govender and Dr Rachel Killean and draws on a series of interviews conducted in …
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Highlights from Lawyers, Conflict and Transition Conference
Highlights of Project Conference now Available Those of you who couldn’t join us last month for our Lawyers, Conflict and Transition conference at QUB can now access a summary of some of the key points raised by our speakers. A ‘Focal Point’ feature on Northern Ireland Television (NITV) includes (from …
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Vacancy for Research Fellowship in Transitional Justice
The School of Law at Queen’s University Belfast seeks to appoint an experienced and highly motivated Research Fellow. The post is available for three years, with a salary scale of £32,004-£41,709, based on experience. The successful candidate will be supervised and mentored by Professor Kieran McEvoy. S/he will work across …
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Lawyers, Conflict & Transition Conference, QUB, 13 October 2016
The Lawyers, Conflict & Transition team are delighted to announce details of our final project conference to be held at QUB (Canada Room & Council Chamber, Lanyon Building) on Thursday 13 October 2016. Full details can be found here . The main conference themes are: Lawyers and Legal Ethics in …
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Lawyers and Truth Recovery Mechanisms in South Africa
Our latest report for legal practitioners, human rights activists and academics is now available to download here. Focusing on post-apartheid South Africa, it explores the role of lawyers in truth recovery mechanisms. The report was prepared by Dr Rachel Killean and draws on a series of interviews conducted in South …
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Women Lawyers and the Struggle for Change in Conflict and Transition
The latest findings from the Lawyers, Conflict and Transition project have just been published in the Australian Feminist Law Journal. In ‘Women Lawyers and the Struggle for Change in Conflict and Transition’ Anna Bryson and Kieran McEvoy examine the particular experiences of female ‘cause lawyers’ in conflicted and transitional societies. …
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Latest Outputs from Lawyers, Conflict and Transition Project
The Lawyers, Conflict and Transition team have recently published four articles that draw directly and indirectly on our international comparative field research. The first by Anna Bryson is titled ‘Victims, Violence and Voice: Transitional Justice, Oral History and Dealing with the Past‘. Drawing on both our interviews with lawyers and …
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Law and Society Association, New Orleans, June 2016
Professor Kieran McEvoy and Dr Anna Bryson have just returned from the annual Law and Society Association conference in New Orleans. They jointly presented a paper titled ‘OBSTACLES, OPPORTUNITIES & OBDURACY: WOMEN LAWYERS & THE STRUGGLE FOR CHANGE IN CONFLICT & TRANSITION‘ The presentation explored the particular experiences of female …
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Professor Kieran McEvoy Delivers 36th Annual William Nash Memorial Lecture
Professor Kieran McEvoy has just delivered the 36th Annual William Nash Memorial Lecture at Campion College, University of Regina, Canada. His lecture was entitled ‘Truth, Justice & Reconciliation: Dealing with the Past in Northern Ireland’. He began by providing a brief analysis of the background to conflict in Northern Ireland …
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Professor Kieran McEvoy Delivers Paper on Peacemaking at Sorbonne
Professor McEvoy travelled to Paris yesterday to address academics and peacemakers at the Paris-Sorbonne University on the topic of: ‘Prisoners, their Lawyers and Political Imagination in Peacemaking’. His paper was the first in a series that seeks to compare the Northern Ireland experience with the transition initiated in the …
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Latest Report Published – Israel: Litigation, Human Rights & the Occupation
The next in our series of reports for practitioners and academics has now been published in both English and Hebrew. Drawing on his experience as both an experienced Israeli human rights activist and an academic researcher, Ron Dudai explores a number of key themes relating to litigation, human rights and …
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Lawyers, Conflict and Transition team meet UN Rapporteur, Pablo de Greiff
Professor Kieran McEvoy, Professor Louise Mallinder and Dr Anna Bryson yesterday met with UN human rights expert, Pablo de Greiff at Queen’s University. They were joined by ten other transitional justice scholars who wished to explore with de Greiff current efforts to address the legacy of the Northern Ireland conflict. …
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Professor McEvoy Discusses Lawyers, Causes and Political Violence at University of Oxford
Professor Kieran McEvoy recently presented a paper at the Faculty of Law, University of Oxford, entitled ‘Lawyers, Causes and Political Violence: Re-examining Legal Professionalism in Conflicted and Transitional Societies’. A podcast of the presentation is now available. Based upon fieldwork in a range of jurisdictions (including Northern Ireland, South Africa, …
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Response to Northern Ireland Office Proposals for Dealing with the Past
As noted in our previous post, members of the ‘Lawyers, Conflict & Transition’ team have been working to develop Model Legislation for the Dealing with the Past elements of the Stormont House Agreement. This is a collaborative QUB Business Alliance Project between QUB School of Law and the Committee on …
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Insights from Lawyers, Conflict & Transition research applied to Northern Ireland
Members of the Lawyers, Conflict & Transition team have been involved in a collaborative QUB Business Alliance Project between QUB School of Law and the Committee on the Administration of Justice (CAJ), led by Professor Kieran McEvoy. The main purpose of the project was to develop shadow legislation for the …
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Latest Publication on Lawyers as Transitional Actors in Tunisia
As part of our ethical commitment to ‘put something back’ into the jurisdictions that we are researching, the Lawyers, Conflict & Transition team has undertaken to deliver a series of reports for practitioners and local users. The fourth in this series has now been published in both English and Arabic. …
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Professor McEvoy Addresses European Society of Criminology Conference in Porto
Principal Investigator, Professor Kieran McEvoy, is presenting the latest findings from the Lawyers, Conflict & Transition project at the 15th annual conference of the European Society of Criminology in Porto (2-5 Sept 2015). His paper is entitled ‘The Lawyer, The Client and the Cause: Lawyering in Conflict and Transition’ and …
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Publication of ‘Transitional Justice Challenges Facing Lawyers in Cambodia’
Our latest policy report – on transitional justice challenges facing lawyers in Cambodia – has just been published both in English and Khmer. The report was prepared by Alex Batesmith, in association with the Lawyers, Conflict and Transition project. Alex is a Manchester-based barrister and mediator with twenty years’ practical …
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Law & Society, Seattle, 2015
Kieran McEvoy, Louise Mallinder and Anna Bryson have just returned from Seattle where they presented interim findings from recent field research on lawyers, conflict and transition. The dedicated paper session on Lawyers in Conflict & Transition was chaired by Ron Slye, Professor of public international law, international criminal law, transitional …
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Professor Louise Mallinder Interviewed on NVTV
Our Senior Co-Investigator, Professor Louise Mallinder, was recently interviewed for local television station, NVTV http://www.nvtv.co.uk/?s=mallinder In this wide ranging interview she discusses how and why she became involved in transitional justice and considers the implications of the various shifts in the boundaries of the discipline. Reflecting on her own experience …
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Political Prisoners, Resistance and the Law in Northern Ireland: Lessons for Palestine
The third in our series of reports for practitioners has now been published in both English and Arabic. Drawing on decades of research on paramilitary prisoners in Northern Ireland, Professor Kieran McEvoy seeks to draw lessons that are of relevance to Palestinian prisoners. Having set the background to the Northern …
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Socio-Legal Studies Association – 2015 Annual Conference
The Lawyers, Conflict & Transition project hosted a stream on Transitions from Conflict: The Role and Agency of Lawyers at this year’s SLSA conference at the University of Warwick. All four members of the team spoke on themes that are emerging from our fieldwork in Cambodia, Chile, Israel, Palestine, Tunisia …
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Professor Kieran McEvoy Addresses US Congress Hearing on Human Rights
Professor Kieran McEvoy, Director of the Lawyers, Conflict and Transition project, recently addressed a US Congress Hearing on Human Rights in Northern Ireland. He spoke about accountability, justice and reconciliation in the context of current efforts to deal with the past in Northern Ireland. Fellow panellists included Geraldine Finunane (widow …
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Publication of Report on ‘Lawyers & Transition in Chile’
We have just published the second in our series of policy-orientated reports – Lawyers & Transition in Chile / Abogados & Transición en Chile. The report was prepared by Professor Cath Collins, in association with the Lawyers, Conflict & Transition team. Professor Collins joined the Transitional Justice Institute at the …
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Publication of the First of our Project Reports
We are delighted to announce the publication of the first in a series of policy-orientated reports – Improving the Effectiveness of International Lawyers in Rule of Law and Transitional Justice Projects. The report was prepared by Alex Batesmith, a barrister and mediator with twenty years’ practical legal experience in national …
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Day of the Endangered Lawyer – 23 Januray 2015
Solidarity with Human Rights Lawyers The European Democratic Lawyers (AED-EDL), the European Association of Lawyers for Democracy & World Human Rights (ELDH) and the European Bar Human Rights Institute (IDHAE) today calls for greater public awareness of the severe situation facing lawyers in the Philippines. The Lawyers, Conflict & Transition …
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Professor Louise Mallinder giving Human Rights Day lecture
Human Rights: From Conflict to Transitional Justice Professor Louise Mallinder will today address an audience at St Mary’s University College Belfast as part of a week-long programme to mark Human Rights Day. Around the world this date is used by civil society groups to raise awareness of how human rights …
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International Conference on Accounts of the Conflict
Anna Bryson reflected on the role of lawyers, former prisoners and peacemakers in rebuilding post-conflict societies and promoting social change at INCORE’s international conference on Accounts of the Conflict (17-18 November 2014). She was joined on the Peace, Justice & Reconciliation panel by Elisabeth Baumgartner (Swisspeace), Proscovia Svard (Sodertorn University, …
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Project Represented at American Society of Criminology, San Francisco
Kieran McEvoy, Louise Mallinder and Ron Dudai will participate in a roundtable on lawyers and transitional justice at the annual conference of the American Society of Criminology in San Francisco (19-22 November 2014). Our project is particularly relevant to the theme is this year’s annual conference – Criminology at the …
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Local Consultants
Our fieldwork in Cambodia, Chile, Israel, Palestine, Tunisia and South Africa has now been completed. We want to take this opportunity to thank each of our local consultants for their commitment, hard work and dedication in preparing background papers, opening doors and co-ordinating interviews. It has been a genuine pleasure …
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Lawyers, Revolution and Transitional Justice: the Case of Tunisia
‘Post-Uprising Justice Administration: Transitional Justice and Hybrid Regimes in Turkey and the Middle East’ (Cornell University)
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Marny Requa to Present at Cornell University
Marny Requa has been invited to participate in Cornell University’s forthcoming conference on ‘Post-Uprising Justice Administration: Transitional Justice and Hybrid Regimes in Turkey and the Middle East’ (10-11 October 2014). The event is being hosted by the Cornell Law School’s Clarke Initiative for Law and Development in the Middle East. …
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American Society of Criminology Annual Conference
The Lawyers in Conflict & Transition team is organising a panel at the annual ASC conference in San Francisco (19-22 November 2014). It will include discussions on: the role of lawyers in civil society movements; how lawyers have shaped local and international understandings of the ‘rule of law; the extent …
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Louise Mallinder Provides Project Overview at Universidad de los Andes, Bogota, Colombia
Louise Mallinder has just returned from Bogota, Colombia. During this trip, she presented on the Lawyers, Conflict and Transition project and her other current research projects at the Universidad de los Andes. She also gave a plenary at the Second Forum for the Culture of Peace and Transitional Justice: Justice …
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Kieran McEvoy Reflects on Victim-Perpetrator Identities in Transitional Justice at ECPR
Kieran McEvoy travelled to the University of Glasgow on Thursday to attend the 2014 General Conference of the European Consortium for Political Research. He was the discussant for a panel entitled ‘The Construction of Victim-Perpetrator Identities in Transitional Justice’. This session brought together early career researchers to explore how transitional …
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Images from Recent Field Research in South Africa
Kieran McEvoy and Anna Bryson recently returned from intensive field research in South Africa. A total of twenty-two lengthy interviews were completed in and around Cape Town, Johannesburg and Pretoria. Interviewees included Albie Sachs (former anti-apartheid leader and, later, Constitutional Court judge), Ms Yasmin Sooka (human rights lawyer, former TRC …
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Lawyering in ‘Limited’ Democracies: Preliminary Reflections from Cambodia
Louise Mallinder presented a paper entitled Lawyering in ‘Limited’ Democracies: Preliminary Reflections from Cambodia at the Third Annual Minerva Jerusalem International Conference on Transitional Justice. The focus of the conference was Learning from International Experience. Dr Mallinder took this opportunity to offer some preliminary findings from our recent field research in …
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Plenary Address – European Forum for Restorative Justice
European Forum for Restorative Justice, Belfast, 11-14 June 2014 Professor McEvoy gave a plenary address at the 8th International Conference on Restorative Justice. It was attended by 300 delegates from around the world. One of the themes of his presentation was the challenges faced by lawyers in transitional settings when …