Dr Alice Donald is Associate Professor of Human Rights Law in the Department of Law and Politics, and 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 (Published online first)
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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