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      Dr Cathal Doyle

      BEng, PG Dip Economic Science, LLM, PhD
      ROLE: Research Fellow in Law
      SCHOOL: Law
      DEPARTMENT: Law
      TELEPHONE: +44 (0)20 8411 6834
      EMAIL: C.M.Doyle@mdx.ac.uk
      1. Biography &
        Qualifications
      2. Learning &
        Teaching Interests
      3. Research Outputs &
        Interests
      4. Funded Research &
        Knowledge Exchange Projects
      5. Engagement &
        Impact

      • Biography &
        Qualifications

        Dr Cathal Doyle is LLM Programme Leader and a Leverhulme Early Career Fellow at the School of Law Middlesex University, London (UK). He is a founding member of the European Network on Indigenous Peoples, a member of the board of the Forest Peoples Programme and a member of the International Law Association’s Committee on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples.

        Dr Doyle specialises in the rights of indigenous peoples under international and national law, and the interface with business and human rights and sustainable development. He has published six books, numerous book chapters, reports and articles on these topics, and his work has been cited by UN and OECD expert bodies in their reports and guidance to State and corporate actors in relation to indigenous peoples’ rights. His current research centres on the intersection of indigenous peoples and minorities rights with large scale development activities, in particular it addresses the activities of the extractive industry in the Americas and Asia and the evolving concept of free prior and informed consent and indigenous peoples’ right to self-determined sustainable development. This includes a focus on human rights impact assessments, access to remedy in the context of development projects and the implementation of reparation decisions. His research also extends to the individual rights of members of indigenous and minority communities, such as the rights of indigenous children with disabilities.

        Dr Doyle has worked as a consultant/advisor for successive UN Special Rapporteurs on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, the UN Working Group on Business and Human Rights and a number of NGOs involved in supporting indigenous peoples. He also collaborates regularly with a range of human rights NGOs, indigenous peoples' organizations and networks in Asia and Latin America, and academic institutions. This includes assisting indigenous peoples’ organizations and NGOs to develop related project proposals and seek funding from international development agencies and corporate actors, to implement research projects and deliver training, to engage with national and international grievance mechanisms and to pursue the implementation of decisions of international and regional mechanisms.

        Dr Doyle previously worked as a Management Consultant with Accenture, a global consulting company, managing projects addressing business process reengineering, information technology, knowledge management and exchange, operations management, service delivery and strategy for major clients in Europe, the US and Latin America. This work spanned financial, retail, manufacturing and government sectors, with clients including Airbus, national taxation authorities, Carrefour, KBC, Adecco, Daimler-Chrysler and the World Bank/IFC.


        Languages Spoken

         Spanish, French, Irish

      • Learning &
        Teaching Interests

        Dr Doyle is LLM Programme leader for the School of Law. He is currently teaching on the following LLM modules: Sustainable Development and Human Rights, Minority Rights and Indigenous Peoples, International Human Rights Law, and Business and Human Rights. He is module leader for the International Human Rights Law and Business and Human Rights modules and will share module leadership responsibility for the LLB Human Rights Law module in 2019.

        He has also designed and delivered modules on Corporate Social Responsibility and Business Ethics to Masters of International Business students and lectured on English Legal Systems to LLB students. Dr Doyle has delivered guest lectures addressing indigenous peoples in a number of universities in countries including Ireland, France, the United States, the Philippines and Tanzania.

      • Research Outputs &
        Interests

        Publications addressing indigenous peoples’ rights under international law, including their right to give or withhold their free prior and informed consent to activities impacting on their way of life and lands, territories and resources:

        • Doyle C. (2018) (with Castellino J.) ‘Who Are ‘Indigenous Peoples? An Examination of Concepts Concerning Group Membership in the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples’ in Weller M. & J. Hohmann (eds.) The UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples A Commentary (Oxford: Oxford University Press)
        • Doyle C. (2015) Indigenous Peoples, Title to Territory, Rights and Resources: The Transformative Role of Free Prior and Informed Consent (London: Routledge) (366 pages) ISBN: 978-0415747769
        • Doyle C. (with Carino J.) (2014) Peuples Autochtones et Industries Extractives: Mettre en oeuvre le consentement, libre, préalable, informé (Paris: L’Harmattan) (186 pages) ISBN 978-2-343-04698-3 

        Publications addressing indigenous peoples' experience with the extractive industry sector and related guidance of international bodies:

        • Doyle C. (2017) ‘Business corporations and indigenous rights: The experience of the Subanon in the Philippines’ in Keane D. & A. Waughray A Living Instrument: 50 Years of the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination 1965 (Manchester: Manchester University Press);
        • Doyle, C. (with Halip R. & Tugendhat H.) (eds.) (2015) Mining, the Aluminium Industry, and Indigenous Peoples: Enhancing Corporate Respect for Indigenous Peoples’ Rights, (Chiang Mai, Gloucestershire & Gland: AIPP, FPP, International Union for the Conservation of Nature) (170 pages) ISBN 9786167898223
        • Doyle C. (with Whitmore A.) (2014) Indigenous Peoples and the Extractive Sector: Towards a Rights Respecting Engagement (Manila, London: Tebtebba, Middlesex University) (228 pages) ISBN 9789710186204

        Publications addressing indigenous peoples’ access to remedy and reparations in specific cases involving corporate related violations of their rights:

        • Doyle C. (with Campanario Y.) (2017) El Dano No Se Olvida (Lima: Equidad) (228 pages) ISBN 978-612-46623-7-9
        • Doyle C. (ed.) (2015) Business and Human Rights: Indigenous Peoples’ Experiences with Access to Remedy. Case studies from Africa, Asia and Latin America (Chiang Mai, Madrid, Copenhagen: Asia Indigenous Peoples Pact, Almáciga, International Work Group for Indigenous Affairs) (315 pages) ISBN 9786167898117

      • Funded Research &
        Knowledge Exchange Projects

         

        Academic research funding:

        Awarded the Leverhulme Trust Research Fellowship from 2016 to 2019 corresponding to approximately £100,000 over three years. 

        External research project funding:

        Between 2012 and 2018 developed sucessful project proposals in conjunction with the European Network on Indigenous Peoples (ENIP) NGO partners and national and regional indigenous peoples organizations and networks. This resulted in approximately €200,000 being raised from international organizations, government development agencies, NGOs and Trusts/Foundations to implement the following projects in conjunction with indigenous peoples:

        • 2018-2019: Implementing free prior and informed consent, impact assessments & monitoring
        • 2015-2017 Business & indigenous peoples' rights training and knowledge transfer activities
        • 2014-2015: Guidance on sustainability standards on indigenous rights for the aluminium industry
        • 2012-2014: Improving mining company policy and practice around free prior informed consent
        • 2013-2015: Realizing indigenous peoples’ access to remedy in the context of business activities

        Dr Doyle has also been involved in a range of knowledge transfer activities with indigenous peoples and their organizations and networks in Asia and Latin America and with global multi-stakeholder iniitiatives such as the Aliminium Stewardship Initiative and the Initiative for Responsible Mining Assurance. He has also provided expert input into OECD, UN, International Finance Corporation standard setting processes and has colloborated with UN bodies in the production of thematic reports and fact finding missions.   

      • Engagement &
        Impact

        • Member of the ILA International Committee on the implementation of the rights of indigenous peoples (since
        • 2015)
        • Member of Editorial Board of the International Journal of Human Rights (since 2008)
        • Founding member of the European Network on Indigenous Peoples (Network of European NGOs) (since 2013)
          Board member of Forest Peoples Programme – UK, Netherlands based NGO (since 2018)

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