Miss Kirsteen Shields

Lecturer

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 the University of Dundee as a Lecturer in Law in 2010. Kirsteen previously held the post of Fellow in Human Rights at LSE Centre for the Study of Human Rights and lectured sessionally at SOAS and Birkbeck, University of London. Kirsteen began her doctoral research at Queen Mary, University of London as part of an inter-institutional AHRC research project into the law and economics of the Fairtrade Movement. As part of this research she travelled to Bolivia, South Africa and Cuba to undertake comparative fieldwork with agricultural workers in relation to labour conditions. 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. Kirsteen has interned for UNESCO, researched for Liberty human rights organisation and volunteered for A4ID (Advocates for International Development).

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.

Awards

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

Teaching

Public Law I, Public Law III, Constitutional Law, UN Human Rights Law (LLM), Regional Human Rights Law (LLM), Legal Research Skills (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; global governance of natural resources; and the relationship(s) between international law structures and global inequality.

Media

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

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, 'Re-writing the centricity of the state in pursuit of global justice' in Amanda Perry Kessaris and Diamond Ashiagor(eds) Socio-Legal Approaches to International Economic Law: text, context, subtext (Routledge)
2012 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

2012 (February) "Global Justice: Rhetoric and Realities", EMES European Research Network International Seminar, �Le monde entre crise et changement� hosted by the Karl Polanyi Institute of Political Econony, (CNAM), Paris, France.
2011 (June) "Re-wiring 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