Dr Amanda Cahill-Ripley Ph.D; LL.M; PGCE; BA (Hons)

Personal Statement

Dr Cahill-Ripley joined the Law School in September 2019 as a Senior Lecturer in Law. She is Co-Director of Post-Graduate Research for Law and AHRI Lead for the International Law and Human Rights Unit. She is also a Visiting Research Fellow at Lancaster University and was previously a Visiting Law Fellow at the Univeristy of Glasgow and a Visiting Professor in International Human Rights Law at the University of Bergen Law Faculty, Norway. Prior to working at Liverpool, Dr Cahill-Ripley was a Lecturer in Law at Lancaster University where she was also Director of Distance Learning and Director of International Programmes.

Dr Cahill-Ripley is an expert in international human rights law, with a specialism in economic, social and cultural rights. Her current research has two strands: The first explores the intersections between socio-economic rights, conflict and peacebuilding (including transitional justice, development and human security). The second examines the role of rights and transformative justice in addressing poverty and homelessness in the UK. Dr Cahill-Ripley is also interested in human rights in practice, (advocacy and mobilisation), the rights of women; human rights in the UK and Ireland and empirical methods of human rights research.

Amanda is currently working on her second monograph entitled ' Economic, Social and Cultural Rights and Transformative Peacebuilding: Enhancing Human Security' (forthcoming, CUP). Most recently Dr Cahill-Ripley has been working on peace agreements and Sustainable Development with Members of the Glasgow Centre for International Law and Security. Previously she has also written on the right to water and in 2011 published her first monograph entitled, 'The Human Right to Water and its Application in the Occupied Palestinian Territories' (Routledge: Oxford). Other publications include articles in Journal of Human Rights Practice, Human Rights Law Review, Netherlands Quarterly of Human Rights and the International Journal of Human Rights as well as reports and several book chapters.

She has also provided expert opinions on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights and Limitations for Scottish Parliament Bill of Rights Team and previously submitted Written and Oral Evidence to the Northern Ireland Assembly Ad Hoc Committee on A Bill of Rights, on Human Rights and Peacebuilding. She regularly works with the United Nations OHCHR and other policy makers and practitioners on collaborative and knowledge exchange events as well as expert consultations. Currently she is working with the UN CESCR Special Rapporteur on the new General Comment on Economic Social and Cultural Rights and Conflict.

Ph.D Supervision Interests:
International human rights, in particular, economic, social and cultural rights; human rights, conflict and transformative/transitional justice; human rights and development and economic, social and cultural rights in the UK/Ireland. Geographical areas of interest include the Middle East and Northern Ireland.

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