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Catherine Turner
Catherine joined the Transitional Justice Institute as a Research Assistant in November 2004. She graduated with an LLB from Trinity College Dublin in 2002, and in 2003 the Arts and Humanities Research Board awarded her a studentship to study for an LLM in public international law at the London School of Economics. Before joining the TJI she worked in the Registry Legal Advisory section of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia and also for Mediation Northern Ireland, for whom she continues to volunteer. Since starting at the TJI Catherine has worked on a diverse range of subjects, including the role of law in times of emergency, gender and accountability. She has also taught on the Public Law, Criminal Law, and Human Rights courses at the University of Ulster, School of Law. She is a part time doctoral student within the School of Law and a member of the European Society of International Law.
Research Interests
Catherine’s main research interests lie in the field of public law and political theory, in relation to both domestic and international law. She has worked on the conceptual issues raised in the implementation of international human rights laws, such as the relationship between domestic and international law, and the gaps in accountability that occur when internationally devised laws are applied in diverse national contexts. Her doctoral research focuses on resistance to human rights in peace processes, exploring the reasons that groups resist, or indeed are portrayed as resisting, human rights, and locating them within broader legal and philosophical trends. To this end the research looks at the ways in which the language of rights is introduced into political discourse and challenges the claim of legal rights to objective normativity.
Publications
| Peer Reviewed Articles |
| 'Delivering Lasting Peace, Democracy and Human Rights in Transition: The Role of International Law' International Journal of Transitional Justice (2008) (forthcoming) |
| 'Utopia and the Doubters: Truth, Transition and Law' Legal Studies (2008) (forthcoming) (co-author with C Campbell) |
| 'Gender, Truth and Transition' 16 UCLA Women's Law Journal (2007) (co-author with F Ni Aolain) |
| Other |
| Review of Empire in Denial by David Chandler, in Ethnopolitics (2007) (forthcoming) |
| Review of How Israelis and Palestinians Negotiate: A Cross Cultural Analysis of the Oslo Peace Process, edited by T Coffman-Wittes 6(1) Ethnic Conflict Research Digest (2006). |
| Comment: Home Rule or Rome Rule? Ireland and the International Criminal Court 5 Trinity College Law Review (2002) |