Miss Kirsteen Shields

Email: k.l.shields@dundee.ac.uk

Direct Dial: +44 (0)1382 388942

Room No: 3.13

Degrees

LLB Hons, Law with French Language, University of Glasgow.
E. MA, Human Rights and Democratisation, EIUC, Italy.

Biography

Kirsteen joined Dundee Law School as lecturer in law in 2010. Prior to this she was at the LSE Centre for the Study of Human Rights as LSE Fellow in Human Rights and convening lecturer of 'Multinational Enterprises and the Law' (LLM) course at Birkbeck, University of London.

Kirsteen completed an honours degree in Law with French Language at the University of Glasgow in 2004 and a Masters in Human Rights and Democratisation from the European Inter-University Centre for Human Rights and Democratisation (Italy) in 2005. In 2006 Kirsteen was awarded an AHRC scholarship to undertake doctoral research on the law and economics of the Fairtrade Movement at Queen Mary, University of London. As part of this research she has conducted field research on agricultural workers in South Africa, on small producers in Bolivia and on agricultural and industrial workers in Cuba. In 2007 Kirsteen was invited to be Fellow at the Centre for Comparative Research in Law and Political Economy, at Osgoode Hall Law School, York University, Toronto. Prior to her doctoral research Kirsteen interned for UNESCO HQ (Paris) and researched for the human rights organisation Liberty (London).

She is a member of the management committee for the School�s Student Law Clinic and Staff co-ordinator for the School�s Student Mooting Society.

Teaching

Public Law 1, Constitutional Law, Commercial Law, International Law of Fair Trade(LLM), International Commercial Law (LLM), International Law Research Methodology (LLM).

Research

Kirsteen's research is in the field of public international law and international human rights, particularly relating to the human rights obligations of corporations and on global governance of natural resources.

Media

AHRC / BBC Media Training, hosted by Manchester Metropolitan University, September 2011.

Awards

2011, Scotland and Northern Ireland Young Thinker of the Year, the Young Programme.

Selected Publications

Articles

2008 Kirsteen Shields, "Fairtrade and Reflexive Democracy" with Prof Janet Dine in European Business Organisation Law Review, Vol. 9, Issue 2

Book Chapters

2012 Kirsteen Shields, 'Global Justice Disembedded The Potential of Socio-Legal Theory and Practice' in Amanda Perry Kessaris and Diamond Ashiagor(eds) Socio-Legal Approaches to International Economic Law: text, context, subtext (Routledge)
2011 Kirsteen Shields, 'Fairtrade and Labour Standards: Why Fairtrade is Succeeding where International Law has Failed' in Janet Dine and Brigitte Granville(eds) Trust and Fairtrade (Routledge)
2009 Kirsteen Shields, 'Labour Exploitation: Crossing the Threshold between Acceptable and Unacceptable Labour Standards' in Paulus Kaufmann, Hannes Kuch, Christian Neuhauser and Elaine Webster(eds) Humiliation, Degradation, Dehumanisation Human Dignity Violated (Springer Publications)
2008 Kirsteen Shields, Janet Dine 'Corporate Social Responsibility: Do Corporations Have a Responsibility to Trade Fairly? Can the Fairtrade Movement Deliver the Duty?' in Perspectives on Corporate Social Responsibility (Edward Elgars)

Encyclopaedia Entries

2010 "The Right to Development" in Essex Internet Encyclopaedia of Human Rights, Andrew Fagan (eds), Human Rights Centre, University of Essex
2010 "The Fairtrade Movement" in Essex Internet Encyclopaedia of Human Rights, Andrew Fagan (eds), Human Rights Centre, University of Essex

Presentations

2011 (June) "Re-thinking Compliance: Lessons from Fairtrade", ESRC seminar series on �Re-engineering the corporation: Human Rights, the corporation and the environment�, hosted by the School of Law, Queen's University Belfast
2011 (April) "Commentary, �Economic, Social and Cultural Rights� ", panel at the postgraduate conference on �International Law and The Trickle Down Effect�, University of Edinburgh.
2011 (April) "Rethinking State-Centricity in the Pursuit of Global Justice", ILA Spring Conference, hosted by University of Sheffield.
2011 (April) "Why Fairtrade is Succeeding where International Law has Failed", socio-legal approaches to international economic law stream, Socio-Legal Studies Association Annual Conference, hosted by the University of Sussex.
2009 (November) "Discussant, �Colonialism, Slavery, Reparations and Trade�", SOAS, UK.
2009 (May) "Fairtrade and the Moral Economy", CRASSH workshop, University of Cambridge