Human Rights, Global Justice and Public Law

Socio-legal research enables us to make visible the everyday lived reality of conflict and migration and to understand, at a granular level and critically, how the law responds and therefore shapes these experiences.

The group brings together researchers working across EU law and public international law, including international human rights law, international humanitarian law, and international criminal law, and often alongside people on the move and those experiencing war. Research focuses on human rights, global justice, international and constitutional law, religion, minority rights, and responses to authoritarianism. It draws on doctrinal, theoretical, and socio-legal approaches to examine both legal frameworks and lived experience.

Project spotlights

Human Rights, Global Justice and Public Law centres around Human rights theory and practice, international law, humanitarian law, public law, religion, and accountability across borders and institutions, including minority rights and modern slavery.

Below are some of our projects and outputs.

Cismas, I; Holmes, S; Parisi, P. Beyond Compliance Consortium
Cismas, I; Parisi, P; Ibarra Padilla, A. Generating Respect Project
Centre of Applied Human Rights. Human Rights Defender Hub
O’Brien, C; Welsh, A; Boulton, S; Levett, S; Daly, F. EU Rights and Brexit Hub

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Masters degrees

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