Prof Pádraig McAuliffe BCL, PhD

Prof. Pádraig McAuliffe was appointed Professor in Transitional Justice in 2018, having served as a Senior Lecturer in the Law School since 2013. He holds a PhD from University College Cork. His main research interests are transitional justice, rule of law and presently is examining the legibility of neopatrimonial practices in transitional justice and international human rights institutions. He has published in the International Journal of Transitional Justice, the Journal of International Law and International Relations, Journal of Human Rights Practice and Hague Journal on the Rule of Law, amongst others. He has published two books, namely Transitional Justice and Rule of Law Reconstruction: A Contentious Relationship (Routledge, 2013) and Transformative Transitional Justice and the Malleability of Post-Conflict States (Edward Elgar 2017), and is available for PhD supervision in any of the above (or related) areas