Dr. Padraig McAuliffe

Lecturer

Email: p.g.mcauliffe@dundee.ac.uk

Direct Dial: +44 (0)1382 386796

Room No: 4.13

Degrees

University College Cork (BCL, PhD)

Biography

Pádraig McAuliffe is a graduate of University College Cork. In 2009, he was awarded his doctorate for his research on the Special Panels for Serious Crimes in East Timor. He held a visiting research fellowship at the University of California, Los Angeles in 2007. From 2008 to 2009, Pádraig worked as a researcher in the Legal Division of the Irish Department of Foreign Affairs. In 2009 Pádraig was appointed to a lectureship in law at the University of Dundee. He is a contributor to the Oxford Reports on International Criminal Law and convenes the annual Scottish Early Careers Research Colloquium with Dr. Stephanie Switzer.

Teaching

Undergraduate:- English Criminal Law, English Law of Contract, UN System of Human Rights and Regional Systems of Human Rights

Research

Padraig’s research interests are primarily in the fields of transitional justice and international criminal tribunals.

Selected Publications

Articles

2013 Padraig McAuliffe, "Interrogating the Justice Cascade" in 9(1) International Journal of Law in Context
2012 Padraig McAuliffe, "Suspended Disbelief: The Curious Endurance of the Deterrence Rationale in International Criminal Law" in 10(2) New Zealand Journal of Public and International Law
2012 Padraig McAuliffe, "The Ambiguities of Transitional Narrative in The Porcupine by Julian Barnes " in 24(3) Journal of Law and Literature 325
2011 Padraig McAuliffe, "UN Peace-Building, Transitional Justice and the Rule of Law in East Timor: The Limits of Institutional Responses to Political Questions" in 58(1) Netherlands International Law Review, pp. 103-135
2011 Padraig McAuliffe, "From Molehills to Mountains (and Myths?): A Critical History of Transitional Justice Advocacy" in 22 Finnish Yearbook of International Law
2011 Padraig McAuliffe, "Hybrid Tribunals at Ten: How International Criminal Justice’s Golden Child Became an Orphan" in 7 Journal of International Law and International Relations , pp. 1
2011 Padraig McAuliffe, "Transitional Justice�s Expanding Empire: Reasserting the Value of the Paradigmatic Transition?" in 2 Journal of Conflictology
2010 Padraig McAuliffe, "The Limits of Co-Operation: Resolving the Question of 'How Low Do You Go?' in the Khmer Rouge Trials’ Bicephalous Prosecution" in 30 University of Tasmania Law Review
2010 Padraig McAuliffe, "Transitional Justice and the Rule of Law: The Perfect Couple or Awkward Bedfellows?" in 2 Hague Journal on the Rule of Law, pp. 110
2009 Padraig McAuliffe, "Modern-Day Babel: Language Politics and Building the Rule of Law in East Timor" in 8 Hibernian Law Journal 89
2009 Padraig McAuliffe, "Rebuilding Judicial Capacity With Enchanted Tools " in 1(15) Panoptica
2008 Padraig McAuliffe, "East Timor’s Community Reconciliation Process as a Model for Legal Pluralism in Criminal Justice (10,000 words) " in 12 Journal of Law, Social Justice and Global Development
2008 Padraig McAuliffe, "Transitional Justice in Transit: Why Transferring a Special Court for Sierra Leone Trial to The Hague Defeats the Purposes of Hybrid Tribunals" in 55 Netherlands International Law Review 365
2007 Padraig McAuliffe, "Forgetting the Purposes of Hybrid Courts: The East Timorese Experience (12,000 words)" in J. Allain and S. Mullally(eds) 2 Irish Yearbook of International Law 99

Books

2013 Padraig McAuliffe, "Transitional Justice and Rule of Law Reform: Dilemmas for Policy Makers", Routledge Cavendish

Book Chapters

2013 Padraig McAuliffe, 'Justice in Latin American Transition: Ariel Dorfmann�s Death and the Maiden as Pretext and Prophesy' in Olivera Simic and Peter D Rush(eds) The Art of Transitional Justice (Springer)
2011 Padraig McAuliffe, William A. Schabas et al 'Hybrid Courts in Retrospect: Of Lost Legacies and Modest Futures' in 'The Role of Hybrid Tribunals in International Criminal Justice' The Ashgate Research Companion to International Criminal Law: Critical Perspectives (Ashgate Publishing, 2011)
2011 Padraig McAuliffe, '30 years of CEDAW and criminal justice in Timor-Leste: omission or discrimination?' in JP Faro and H Fuchs(eds) Time and Human Rights ((Rio di Janeiro, Lumen Juris, 2011))

Book Reviews

2011 "Selecting International Judges: Principle, Process, and Politics" in 11 International Criminal Law Review, pp. 315–320 ISBN: 978-0199580569
2010 "The Ethiopian Red Terror Trials: Transitional Justice Challenged" in 10 International Criminal Law Review, pp. 294-299 ISBN: 978-1847013200
2010 "Transitional Justice from Below: Grassroots Activism and the Struggle for Change" in 10 Human Rights Law Review, pp. 199-202 ISBN: 978-1841138213
2008 "Constructing Justice and Security after War by Charles T. Call (ed.)(2,000 words) " in 13(2) Journal of Conflict and Security Law 289
2007 "Can Might Make Rights? Building the Rule of Law after Military Interventions by Jane Stromseth, David Wippman and Rosa Brooks (3,000 words)" in 2 Irish Yearbook of International Law

Presentations

2012 (May) "Parallel Conversations: Why Transitional Justice Practitioners and Rule of Law Reconstructors Mean Different Things When They Talk about the Rule of Law", Irish Jurisprudence Society, Dublin, Ireland
2011 (March) "The Curious Case of the Scapegoat Genocidaires", 2ND Biennial War Crimes Conference 2011 (Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, London)
2010 (August) "Traditional Law, Transitional Justice and Legal Pluralism in South-East Asia", Guest Lecture at University of Tromso, Norway
2010 (April) "The Khmer Rouge Trials: The Compromises of Prosecuting Past Evil", Evil, Law and the State Conference (Salzburg, Austria)
2008 (July) "Sidelining Gender Based Violence in Hybrid Trials and the Failure of Norm Penetration", 2008 Global Conference of the International Peace Research (Leuven, Belgium)
2007 (May) "Defendant Rights in Hybrid Tribunals: Bolstering the Judicial Duty to Protect ", UCC International Conference on Criminal Justice and Human Rights (Cork, Ireland)
2007 (July) "The Capacity-Building Potential of Hybrid Courts for the Development of a State Prosecution Service in East Timor", Law and Society Association Conference (Berlin, Germany)
2007 (April) "Capacity-Building for Defence Lawyers in East Timor's Hybrid Tribunal", Socio-Legal Studies Association Conference, Canterbury, UK