Dr Louise Mallinder

Lecturer in Human Rights and International Law

Room 21D68, Dalriada House

University of Ulster

Jordanstown

Co. Antrim

BT37 0QB

Ph: +44(0)28 9036 8890

Email: l.mallinder@ulster.ac.uk

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Louise became a lecturer in human rights and international law at the Transitional Justice Institute in November 2009 and has been appointed TJI’s ‘Dealing with the Past’ research coordinator. She received a BA (2001), LLM in Human Rights Law (2003) and a PhD (2006) from Queen’s University Belfast. She has published her doctoral thesis as Amnesty, Human Rights and Political Transitions: Bridging the Peace and Justice Divide (Hart Publishing, 2008) and this monograph was awarded the 2009 Hart SLSA Early Career Award and was jointly awarded the 2009 British Society of Criminology Book Prize.

Following her doctoral studies, Louise worked at Queen’s University Belfast as a research fellow, with Prof Kieran McEvoy and Prof Brice Dickson, on a two-year AHRC-funded research project. This project, which drew on her doctoral research on amnesty laws, is entitled Beyond Legalism: Amnesties, Transition and Conflict Transformation. It is an interdisciplinary, comparative study of the impact of amnesty laws within Argentina, Bosnia-Herzegovina, South Africa, Uganda and Uruguay, and the project team conducted fieldwork in these jurisdictions. In addition to her work at Queen’s University, Louise has worked as a consultant for the German Development Agency and for the Fighting Impunity and Promoting International Justice project led by Prof M. Cherif Bassiouni. She has also provided expert training for judges and lawyers in Macedonia as part of a programme sponsored by the OSCE and the US Department of State. In addition, she has participated in expert meetings at the UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights.

Research Interests

Louise’s research interests include amnesty laws, transitional justice, international criminal justice, international humanitarian law, international human rights law, economic and social rights in political transitions, and conflict transformation