LLB, Dip. Business Management, M.Phil, PhD

  • Public International Law
  • Human Rights Law
  • International Organisations
  • Comparative Constitutional Law

Research Supervision:

  • Public International Law
  • Minority Rights
  • Human Rights
  • International Organisations
  • Comparative Institutional Law
  • Public International Law
  • Human Rights Law
  • European Law
  • Diplomaticand Consular Law
  • International Humanitarian Law
  • Business and Human rights

Media Expertise:

  • Human Rights
  • United Nations
  • International Conflicts
  • International Law

Publications:

Authored Books:

  • Minority Rights in Asia: A Comparative Legal Analysis (Oxford: Oxford University Press, May 2006) [with Joshua Castellino] 283 pp.
  • Los Procedimientos Publicos Especiales de la Comisioan de Derechos Humanos de Naciones Unidas (Valencia: Tirant lo Blanch, 2005) 515 pp.

Articles and Chapters in Journals Special Issues/Edited Books:

  • 'The UN Public Special Procedures under Damocles' Sword- Two Particular Innovations: Mechanisms for the Appointment of Mandate-Holders and the Adoption of a Code of Conduct for Special Procedures Mandate-hoplders of the Human Rights Council',Human Rights Law Journal, vol. 29, n. 105, 2008, 32-40.
  • 'Role of the UN in the Promotion and Protection of Human Rights', An Introduction to International Human Rights Law, Brill (Rahman chowdhury and Hossain Bhuiyan, eds.) Netherlands: martinus Nij. Publishers, 2010, 119-144
  • 'Process of ratification by Ireland of the Protocol to the Convention Against Torture' (Proceso de ratificacion por Irlanda del Protocolo a la Convencion contra la Tortura), Creacion del Mecanismo Espantilde;ol de Prevencion de la Tortura (F. Mariño Menendez and A. Cebada Romero, eds.) . Madrid: Iustel, 2009, pp. 183-195.
  • 'The MDGs and the Human Rights Based Approach: Reflecting on Structural Chasms with the United Nations System', The International Journal of Human Rights, vol. 13, n. 1, 2009, pp. 29-44
  • 'La Declaracioacute;n Universal de Derechos Humanos: Precursora y referente normativo de Los mecanismos no Convencionales de Naciones Unidas' (Universal Declaration on Human Rights: Pioneer and Normative Reference of UN non-conventional mechanisms) in La Declaracion Universal de los Derechos Human os. Reflexiones en torno a su 60 Aniversario (Jose Luis Caballero Ochoa, ed.), Mexico, Universidad Iberoamericana, 2009, pp. 145-167.
  • 'The Universal Periodic Review of the UN Human Rights Council: An assessment of the first session', Chinese Journal of International Law, Vol. 7, No. 3, 2008, pp. 721-734.
  • 'Debe desaparecer la Comision de Derechos Humanos de Naciones Unidas?' [Should the UN Commission on Human Rights Have Disappeared?] in Beneyto, Joseacute; Maria and Becerril, Belen (Dirs.), Una Nueva organizacion de Naciones Unidas para el Siglo XXI, Madrid: Biblioteca Nueva/Instituto Universitario de estudios Europeos, 2007 pp. 109-143.
  • 'La Comision de Derechos Humanos a Debate: el procedimiento 1503' [Future of the UN Commission on Human Rights: the 1503 procedure] , in Revista Iberoamericana de Derechos Humanos, vol. 2, 2006 pp 34-80.
  • 'Minority Rights in China: A Legal Overview' in European Journal of Minority Issues, Vol.4, 2005, [with Joshua Castellino] pp. 51-83.
  • 'Los procedimientos publicos especiales de la Comision de Derechos Humanos de Naciones Unidas y las nuevas dimensiones de la actividad del Consejo de Seguridad en el mantenimiento de la paz y seguridad internacional', Revista electronica de estudios internacionales, nº 2, 2001, Website: http://www.reei.org (Public Procedures of the UN Commission on Human Rights in the context of the Security Council and New Dimensions of its Activities).

Other Publications:

  • 'The EU, torture secrets and dealing with the truth', European Union for Security Studies' Opinion, May 2009, available at: http://www.iss.europa.eu/uploads/media/The_EU_torture_secrets_and_dealing_with_the_truth_01.pdf
  • With Magdalena Sepulveda Carmona, 'An Overview of Human Rights Mechanisms to raise concerns about Trade and Investment Policies', (translated into French and Spanish) Background paper for the Conference, Confronting the Global Challenge: finding new approaches to trade and investment that support the right to food, organized by IATP, the Ecumenical Advocacy Alliance and FIAN, Geneva, Switzerland, 26 November 2008, available at http://www.tradeobservatory.org/issue_foodSecurity.cfm
  • 'Defensores de derechos humanos, libertad de expresion y apologia del odio: entre la responsabilidad y la persecucion' [Human Rights Defenders, Freedom of Expression and Hate Speech: Accountability v persecution] , contribution to the Seminario Internacional], Defensor Julio 2007, El Derecho a Defender los Derechos Humanos, National Commission on Human Rights of Mexico D.F., Mexico City, July 2007
  • 'Now a New Human Rights Council', Combat Law, vol. 5, Issue 3, June 2006
  • 'The Prevention of Torture: Complaints Mechanism, Investigation and Prosecution of Alleged Perpetrators' in Chinese Yearbook of Human Rights, vol.1, 2003, pp.390-393.
  • '27 Sesion del Comite de Naciones Unidas contra la Tortura (noviembre 2001) y eleccion de un experto espanol como nuevo miembro', Revista Espanola de Derecho Internacional, vol. LIII, no 1/2, 2001, pp. 653-657 (27th session of the Committee Against Torture).
  • Coordination: Textos basicos de Derechos humanos: con estudios generales y especiales y comentarios a cada texto nacional e internacional PECES BARBA, Gregorio y FERNAacute;NDEZ-LIESA, Carlos (eds.), Navarra: Aranzadi, 2001 (Editing of Text-Book on Human Rights Law).
  • 'Mecanismos de Proteccion Internacional Extra-Convencionales de Derechos Humanos', Juriadica: Anuario de Derecho de la Universidad Iberoamericana, Vol. 27, Mexico, D.F., 2000, pp. 71-86 (Extra Conventional Mechanisms for Human Rights Protection) (With Guevara Bermudez, Antonio)

Workshops, Research, Training and Conferences (2009-April 2011):

  • ‘Detention in Conflict’, Side-event, 17th Session of the UN Human Rights Council, organised by the International Human Rights Council Kashmir Centre.EU in association with the International Human Rights Association of American Minorities, Geneva, 31st May 2011

  • Co-ordinator DELPHE-Iraq Project (British Council) 'Legal and Human Rights Capacity Building in Higher Education: Joint initiative between the University of Duhok (Durdistan, Iraq) and Law Department, Middlesex University (London, UK)
  • 'Composition et Organisation du Conseil des Droits de L'Homme', Les Nouvelles Fonction du Conseil des Droits de l'Homme. Entre Droit, Diplomatie et Expertise organised by Centre de recherche sur les droits de l'homme et le droit humanitaire de l'Universite Paris II- Irish Center for Human Rights, NUI Galway. Paris 3rd May 2010
  • 'Intercultural experiences in Europe', International Seminar on Experiences of local entrepreneurship in intercultural contexts. (Seminario Internacional en Experiecias de Emprendimiento local en contextos interculturales). Organizers: Pontificia Universidad Catolica of Chile and European Academy Bozen/Bolzano (EURAC), Villarrica, Chile, 4 November 2009
  • 'Intercultural experiences: public policies, conflicts and human rights' (Interculturalidad: politicas publicas, conflictos y derechos humanos) International Seminar organized by ID and Middlesex University, Huancayo 5 and October 2009 and Lima, 7 October 2009, Peru
  • 'Similar positions, different perceptions: India and China's approach to human rights within the UN', IVR 24th World Congress, Global Harmony and Rule of Law, September 15-20, 19 September 19 (Beijing, China)
  • 'The Responsibility to Protect and International Justice', Summer Course on European Security Culture and National Traditions 14-17 July 2009, organized by the European Union for Security Studies (EUISS) and Cambridge Summer School, Magdalene Cambridge, UK, 17 July 2009

Editorships:

  • Member, Board of Editors, Revista Iberoamericana de Derechos Humanos, (2004 to date); Member, Board of Editors, Revista Electronica de Estudios Internacionales, (2000-2003).

  • Online: http://www.reei.org ; Member of Selection Team, "Spanish Judicial Decisions in Public International Law", Spanish Yearbook of International Law, (since 1998, vol. VI, VII and VIII).

Honours and Prizes:

  • British Academy Small Grant, 2007
  • RCUK Post-Doctoral Fellowship (2006-2011)
  • IRCHSS Post-Doctoral Fellow (2005-2006)
  • Research Scholarship, German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) (2001)
  • PhD Research Scholarship (1997-2001)

Professional Membership:

  • Member of the Society of Legal Scholars
  • Member of the Spanish Association for the Development and Implementation of International Human Rights Law [Asociacion Espanola para el Desarrollo y la Aplicaciondel Derecho Internacional De Los Derechos Humanos] (January 2007 to date).
  • Member of the Spanish Association of Professor of International Law and International Relations [Asociacion Espanola de Profesores de Derecho Internacional y Relaciones Internacionales] (2000 to date).
  • Member, Board of Editors, Revista Iberoamericana de Derechos Humanos, (2004 to date).
  • Member, Board of Editors, Revista Electronica de Estudios Internacionales, (2000-2003) Online: http://www.reei.org

Links with Partner/Business Organisation:

  • Associate Lecturer of the Irish Centre for Human Rights, NUI Galway, (August 2007 to date).
  • Member of The Galizan Institute for International Security and Peace Studies (IGESIP) (January 2007 to date).
  • Also links with Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain; Universidad Iberoamericana, Mexico City, Mexico; Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, Beijing, China; Latin America Europe Human Rights Network; Human Rights Law Network, India; University of Malta.

Languages spoken

Spanish

French