Dr Alice Donald is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Law and Politics, and co-Director of Learning, Teaching and Quality and co-Chair of Ethics for the School of Law.
Alice previously worked as a commissioner, editor and broadcast journalist with the BBC World Service (1991-2005). She was an Associate of Global Partners from 2007-10, and Senior Research Fellow at London Metropolitan University from 2010-12.
Senor Fellow of the Higher Education Academy
Module leader: Year 2 LLB and BA Law – UK and European Human Rights Law
Module leader: LLM – European Human Rights Law and Practice
Tutor: LLM - International Human Rights Law
Donald, Alice (2021) Compliance in the UK in the ‘age of subsidiarity’. In: Research Handbook on Compliance in International Human Rights Law. Grote, Rainer and Morales Antoniazzi, Mariela and Paris, Davide , eds. Research Handbooks in Human Rights series . Edward Elgar. ISBN 9781788971119 (Accepted/In press)
Donald, Alice and Speck, Anne-Katrin (2021) Time for the gloves to come off? The response by the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe to rule of law backsliding. European Convention on Human Rights Law Review . ISSN 2666-3228 (Accepted/In press)
Donald, Alice and Leach, Philip (2020) Engaging with Europe after Brexit: time to reset the UK’s relationship with the Council of Europe. Finding Britain's role in a changing world: partnerships for the future of UK Foreign Policy . pp. 29-33. (Published online first)
Donald, Alice (2020) Principled resistance to ECtHR Judgments – A New Paradigm?, edited by Marten Breuer [Book review]. European Convention on Human Rights Law Review , 1 (2). pp. 297-302. ISSN 2666-3228
Donald, Alice and Long, Debra and Speck, Anne-Katrin (2020) Identifying and assessing the implementation of human rights decisions. Journal of Human Rights Practice . ISSN 1757-9619 (Published online first)
2015-2018: Implementation and compliance with human rights law: An exploration of the interplay between the international, regional and national levels, Economic and Social Research Council grant (starting September 2015; joint research project with the universities of Bristol, Essex and Pretoria and the Open Society Justice Initiative) (£1,115,512), co-investigator.
I have been principal investigator or co-investigator on a number of research projects funded by the Nuffield Foundation; the Joseph Rowntree Foundation; the Equality and Human Rights Commission, and the Thomas Paine Initiative.
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