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Profile of Yvonne McDermott

Name:

Yvonne McDermott

Position:

Lecturer in Law

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Location:

Room 009, Ground Floor, Athrolys

Phone:

+44 (0) 1248 388085

Yvonne McDermott joined Bangor Law School in November 2011 from the Irish Centre for Human Rights, National University of Ireland, Galway, where she is currently completing a Ph.D. on the potential of international criminal law to develop the highest standards of fairness for the conduct of criminal proceedings, and its failure to embrace that potential standard-setting function. While in Galway, Ms. McDermott lectured courses on Children’s Rights, Immigration and Refugee Law and tutored Constitutional Law. In Bangor, she teaches Research Methods, the International Law of Armed Conflict, and Tort and co-teaches International Criminal Law.

Ms. McDermott’s research interests are international criminal law, international criminal procedure, human rights, and refugee law. She is the Managing Editor of the OUP ‘Oxford Reports on International Criminal Law’ database, an expert researcher on the prestigious research project entitled, 'International Criminal Procedure Expert Framework: Towards the Codification of General Rules and Principles’, and Associate Editor of the Criminal Law Forum journal. She was the winner of the inaugural Böhler Franken Koppe Wijngaarden Advocaten/Hague Academic Coalition Award for Young Professionals in June 2009, and has worked professionally with the Irish Department of Foreign Affairs and as a consultant to the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees.

Publications

Books

  • The Challenge of Human Rights: Past, Present and Future (Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, 2012) (co-editor, with David Keane) (forthcoming).

  • The Ashgate Research Companion to International Criminal Law: Critical Perspectives (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2012) (co-editor, with William A. Schabas and Niamh Hayes) (forthcoming).

Refereed Journal Articles

  •  ‘Yong Vui Kong v. Public Prosecutor and the Mandatory Death Penalty for Drug Offences in Singapore: A Dead End for Constitutional Challenge?’ (2010) 1 International Yearbook of Human Rights and Drug Policy 35-53.
  • ‘Human Rights and the Lisbon Treaty: Consensus or Conditionality?’ (2010) 31(4) Whittier Law Review 733-758.

  • ‘Victims and International Law: Remedies in the Courtroom?’ (2009) 4(3) Hague Justice Journal/ Journal Judiciaire de la Haye 199-213.

  • ‘Some are More Equal than Others: Victim Participation in the International Criminal Court’ (2008) 5(1) Eyes on the ICC 23-49.

Book Chapters

 

  • ‘Rights in Reverse’, in W.A. Schabas, Y. McDermott, N. Hayes and M. Varaki (eds.) The Ashgate Research Companion to International Criminal Law: Critical Perspectives (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2012)

  • ‘Double Speak and Double Standards: Does the Jurisprudence on Retrial following Acquittal under International Criminal Law Spell the End of the Double Jeopardy Rule?’ in D.P. Keane and Y. McDermott (eds.) The Challenge of Human Rights: Past, Present and Future (Cheltenham: Elgar, 2012)

  • ‘Joint case commentary: Prosecutor v. Trbić, Decision on Trial Chamber’s competence to entertain motion filed after entry into force of decision under Rule 11bis’ and Prosecutor v. Lukić et al., ‘Decision on Milan Lukić's appeal regarding referral’ in Klip and Sluiter (eds.) Annotated Leading Cases of International Criminal Tribunals: Vol XXXIV (Antwerp: Intersentia, 2011).

  • ‘Case commentary: Prosecutor v. Krajišnik, ‘Decision on Momčilo Krajišnik's motion to reschedule status conference and permit Alan Dershowitz appear’’ in Klip and Sluiter (eds.) Annotated Leading Cases of International Criminal Tribunals: Vol XXXV (Antwerp: Intersentia, 2011).

  • Encyclopaedia entry, ‘International Criminal Courts’, in Ritzer (ed.) Blackwell Encyclopaedia of Globalization (Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell, 2010) (with William A. Schabas).

Peer-reviewed Case Reports

 

  • Oxford Reports on International Criminal Law, author of over 80 case reports published by Oxford University Press online at http://oxfordlawreports.com. (List of decisions reported available upon request).

Selected Conference Presentations

 

  • ‘The Wrongs of Written Testimony’, University College Dublin School of Law Conference, Integrating a Socio-Legal Approach to Evidence in International Criminal Tribunals, 19 November 2011.

  • ‘The End of the Cold War as a Catalyst for the Growth and Current Character of International Criminal Justice: Rhetoric or Reality?’, 2011 International Political Science Association Conference, Human Rights, War and Peace after the Cold War, Seoul, South Korea, 17 June 2011.

  • ‘Fairness in International Criminal Proceedings: Current Issues’, Presentation to visiting students from the University of Washington, Galway, 1 September 2010.

  • ‘Human Rights and the Lisbon Treaty’, Twenty-Sixth Annual International Law Symposium: The Future of the European Union, Whittier Law School, California, 17 April 2009.

  • ‘Rights for Exonerated Prisoners: A Lacuna in International Law?’, Socio-Legal Studies Association (SLSA) Conference, De Montford University School of Law, Leicester, 8 April 2009.

  • ‘The Judicial Development of Human Rights Law as a Loophole to the State-Centricity of International Law’, Association of American Law Schools (AALS), Annual Meeting 2008/2009, San Diego, California, 7 January 2009.

Selected Guest Lectures

 

  • ‘Gender-Based Approaches to Development’, Suas Global Issues Seminar Series, Galway, October 2010.

  • ‘International Human Rights Mechanisms’, Amnesty International, Dublin, February 2009.

  • ‘Human Rights and the Right to Health’, School of Nursing and Midwifery, National University of Ireland, Galway, January 2009.

  • ‘Child Labour and Human Rights’, Suas Global Issues Seminar Series, Galway, October 2008.

Conference Organisations

 

  • Lead organiser of the Irish Centre for Human Rights 10th Anniversary Conference, ‘Forgotten Rights, Forgotten Concepts’, 19-20 November 2010.

  • Lead organiser of the annual Summer School on the International Criminal Court, Irish Centre for Human Rights, 20-24 June 2010.

  • Co-organiser of the ‘Human Rights in the 21st Century’ stream at the Socio-Legal Studies Association Annual Conference, University of Leicester, April 2009 (with Niamh Hayes).

Media Appearances

 

  • Interview (Irish language): Raidió na Life, ’Cuspóirí Fobraíochta na Mílaoise agus Geallúna na Rialtais’ (‘The Millennium Development Goals and Governmental Obligations’), 5 September 2010.

  • Interview (Irish language): Raidió na Gaeltachta, ‘Cearta Daonna agus Cúrsaí Oideachais’ (‘Human Rights and Education’), 11 December 2008.

Miscellaneous and Online Publications