DISSECT and affiliated PhD researchers are working under the guidance of Prof Marie-B\u00e9n\u00e9dicte Dembour. She is assisted in this task by brilliant scholars who have accepted not only to formally join a ‘Doctoral Guidance Committee’ (DGC) but also to be closely involved in the development of our individual doctoral projects. The DISSECT team is extremely grateful to the following: <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Kirsten Anker<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Associate Professor at the McGill University Faculty of Law, Canada\u00a0<\/strong> Alice Donald<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Senior Lecturer in the School of Law at Middlesex University, London<\/strong> Yves Haeck<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Professor of International Human Rights Law in the Faculty of Law and Criminology at Ghent University<\/strong> Thomas Keenan<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Professor of Comparative Literature at Bard College<\/strong>, USA Elisabeth Lambert<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n CNRS Research Professor at the University of Strasbourg, France (SAGE laboratory) Yvonne McDermott Rees<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Professor of law at the Hillary Rodham Clinton School of Law Swansea University<\/strong> Daragh Murray<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Senior Lecturer at Essex Law School<\/strong> Rachel Murray<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Professor of International Human Rights Law at the University of Bristol Marie Rota<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Lecturer in Law at Lorraine University (France)<\/strong> Frans Viljoen<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Professor of International Human Rights Law at University of Pretoria<\/strong> Margaretha Wewerinke-Singh<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Assistant Professor of Public International Law at Leiden University<\/strong> Former Supervisors<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Linsey McGoey<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Professor of Sociology and Social Theory in the Sociology Department of the University of Essex DISSECT and affiliated PhD researchers are working under the guidance of Prof Marie-B\u00e9n\u00e9dicte Dembour. She is assisted in this task by brilliant scholars who have accepted not only to formally join a ‘Doctoral Guidance Committee’ (DGC) but also to be closely involved in the development of our individual doctoral projects. The DISSECT team is extremelyContinue reading “PhD supervisors”<\/span><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-491","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dissect.ugent.be\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/491","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dissect.ugent.be\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dissect.ugent.be\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dissect.ugent.be\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dissect.ugent.be\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=491"}],"version-history":[{"count":23,"href":"https:\/\/dissect.ugent.be\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/491\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1153,"href":"https:\/\/dissect.ugent.be\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/491\/revisions\/1153"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dissect.ugent.be\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=491"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
Member of Nina Kolowratnik’s Doctoral Guidance Committee<\/strong>
<\/strong>Professor\u00a0Anker teaches property, legal theory and Aboriginal law\/Indigenous legal traditions\u00a0at McGill University Faculty of Law. She is the author of\u00a0Declarations of Interdependence: A Legal Pluralist Approach to Indigenous\u00a0Rights\u00a0<\/em>(2014)\u00a0<\/em>and co-editor of\u00a0From Environmental to Ecological Law\u00a0<\/em>(2021). She has written widely on the challenge to orthodox understandings of law and sovereignty posed by the recognition in Australia and Canada that Indigenous law \u201cintersects\u201d or co-exists with state law.\u00a0She is a member of McGill\u2019s Economics for the Anthropocene (E4A) project, and Centre for Indigenous Conservation and Development Alternatives (CICADA).<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Member of Anne-Katrin Speck’s Doctoral Guidance Committee
<\/strong>Dr Donald’s research interests include the relationship between human rights and democratic governance and matters related to human rights implementation.\u00a0 She is co-author with Philip Leach of\u00a0Parliaments and the European Court of Human Rights<\/em>\u00a0(Oxford University Press, 2016)\u00a0and has regularly assisted the Council of Europe with the training of parliamentarians and parliamentary staff in the fulfilment of their human rights responsibilities. She previously\u00a0worked as a broadcast journalist and editor at the BBC World Service.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Member of Genaro Manrique’s Doctoral Guidance Committee
<\/strong>Professor Haeck’s research focuses on substantial and procedural issues before regional and universal human rights adjudicators. He is the Director of the Programme for Studies on Human Rights in Context. He is also a guest professor at the University of Geneva and the University of Pretoria.\u00a0Prior to this, he was a lecturer at Utrecht University and a guest professor at the University of Malta. He holds a PhD in Law (Ghent University, 2007) and a Master of Laws (Ghent University, 1992). He is co-founder of the Human Rights Centre of Ghent University. \u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Member of Nina Kolowratnik’s Doctoral Guidance Committee<\/strong>
Professor Keenan teaches human rights, media studies, and literature at Bard College, where he also directs the Human Rights Project as well as\u00a0the BA\u00a0program in Human Rights. He is the author of\u00a0Fables of Responsibility<\/em>\u00a0(1997); and, with Eyal Weizman,\u00a0Mengele\u2019s Skull<\/em>\u00a0(2012). He co-edited, with Wendy Chun,\u00a0New Media, Old Media<\/em>\u00a0(2006, 2015). Within the framework of the Open Society University Network, he serves as project co-leader for the Threatened Scholars Initiative<\/em> as well as the Program in Human Rights and the Arts<\/em>.\u00a0 He serves on the boards of a number of distinguished human rights organisations and journals.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Member of Anne-Katrin Speck and Nele Schuldt\u2019s Doctoral Guidance Committees<\/strong>
Professor Lambert\u00a0specialises in issues\u00a0related to\u00a0the enforcement of the European Court of Human Rights\u2019 judgments, access to justice, remedies to victims as well as, more recently,\u00a0the interactions between human rights, food studies and\u00a0environmental\u00a0law.\u00a0These various interests have led her to be\u00a0repeatedly called upon to\u00a0give\u00a0advice\u00a0to\u00a0the Council of Europe.\u00a0Professor Lambert\u00a0is currently a USIAS fellow on the topic\u00a0Taking the right to healthy food seriously<\/em>. She\u00a0is\u00a0also\u00a0in charge of\u00a0designing research within\u00a0the newly\u00a0created\u00a0Strasbourg Research Group for\u00a0environment and sustainability (FERED.fr), of which she is\u00a0a member of the steering Committee.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Member of Ruwadzano Makumbe’s Doctoral Guidance Committee<\/strong>
Professor\u00a0Yvonne McDermott Rees’s research interests include international criminal\u00a0law, human rights\u00a0law\u00a0and the\u00a0law\u00a0of\u00a0evidence. She is currently Principal Investigator on the\u00a0OSR4Rights\u00a0<\/em>project, a multi-disciplinary project that examines how open source research has transformed the landscape\u00a0of human rights fact-finding. Her published works include\u00a0Fairness in International Criminal Trials\u00a0<\/em>(Oxford University Press, 2016);\u00a0Proving International Crimes\u00a0<\/em>(Oxford University Press, forthcoming), and over 60 academic journal articles and book chapters. Yvonne is a Legal Advisor to the Global Legal Action Network (GLAN) and an Associate Academic Fellow\u00a0of\u00a0the Honourable Society\u00a0of\u00a0the Inner Temple.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Member of Ruwadzano Makumbe\u2019s Doctoral Guidance Committee<\/strong>
Dr Muray\u2019s research expertise is in international human rights law and the law of armed conflict. He has a specific interest in artificial intelligence and other advanced technologies, and in using human rights law to more effectively inform ex ante decision-making processes. Daragh is the author of ‘Human Rights Obligations of Non-State Armed Groups’ (Hart, 2016). He also authored the ‘Practitioners Guide to Human Rights Law in Armed Conflict’ in conjunction with Dapo Akande, Charles Garraway, Francoise Hampson, Noam Lubell and Elizabeth Wilmshurst. (OUP 2016) and is co-editor of ‘Digital Witness: Using Open Source Information for Human Rights Investigation, Documentation and Accountability (OUP 2020) with Alexa Koenig and Sam Dubberley.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Member of Edward Kahuthia Murimi\u2019s Doctoral Guidance Committee<\/strong>
Professor Murray directs the Human Rights Implementation Centre at the University of Bristol. Widely known for her academic work on the African human rights system, implementation of human rights law, OPCAT and torture prevention, she also advises national and international organisations, governments and individuals. She held a major research grant from the ESRC to examine how regional and UN treaty bodies\u2019 decisions are implemented (http:\/\/www.bristol.ac.uk\/law\/hrlip\/<\/a>). She is a Fellow of the Human Rights Centre at the University of Essex and a member of Doughty Street Chambers. She is a magistrate sitting in Bristol.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Member of Genaro Manrique’s Doctoral Guidance Committee<\/strong>
<\/strong>Dr Marie Rota specialises in international and comparative human rights law. Her doctoral studies brought her to undertake several research visits in Latin America. Her PhD thesis was published under the title L’interpr\u00e9tation des conventions am\u00e9ricaine et europ\u00e9enne des droits de l’homme<\/em>\u00a0(LGDJ, 2018, 558 pp).\u00a0Extending her study of international and comparative law beyond the European and Inter-American systems, Dr Rota is continuing to work on human rights’ judicial interpretation. She has (co-)edited 3 collections and written 40 academic articles.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Member of Edward Kahuthia Murimi\u2019s Doctoral Guidance Committee<\/strong>
Frans Viljoen is a Professor and Director of the Centre for Human Rights in the Faculty of Law at the University of Pretoria. His research area is international human rights law, with a focus on the African regional human rights system. He has been involved in advocacy and training on the African regional human rights system, and published widely on international human rights law, including International human rights law in Africa<\/em> (Oxford University Press, second edition, 2012). He is editor-in-chief of the African Human Rights Law Journal<\/em> and co-editor of the English and French versions of the African Human Rights Law Reports.<\/em>\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Member of Nele Schuldt’s Doctoral Guidance Committee<\/strong>
<\/strong>Dr Margaretha Wewerinke-Singh is an Assistant Professor of Public International Law at the Grotius Centre for International Legal Studies (Leiden University), an Adjunct Senior Lecturer in Environmental Law at the Pacific Centre for Environment and Sustainable Development (University of the South Pacific) and an Attorney at Blue Ocean Law, a boutique international law firm specialising in human rights, self-determination\u00a0and environmental justice.\u00a0In 2018 she received a NWO Veni-grant for her project\u00a0Climate Justice through the Courts<\/em>\u00a0(2019-2023), which uses socio-legal research to investigate the effectiveness and potential drawbacks of rights-based climate litigation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
<\/strong>Linsey McGoey is Professor of Sociology and Director of the Centre for Economic Sociology and Innovation (CRESI) at the University of Essex. She is the author of No Such Thing as a Free Gift: The Gates Foundation and the Price of Philanthropy<\/em> (Verso, 2016) and The Unknowers: How Strategic Ignorance Rules the World<\/em> (Zed, 2019).<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"