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Suzanne Doyle

Biography

Suzanne Doyle graduated from Nottingham Trent University with a LL.B. (Honours) in Irish Law in 2004. In 2005 she graduated with an LL.M. from Trinity College Dublin. She is also a qualified barrister, having graduated with Merit from the King’s Inns and called to the Irish Bar in 2006.

She is currently completing her PhD thesis with the Faculty of Law at University College Cork. It is entitled "The Involuntary Detention of Persons with Mental Disabilities and the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities" and is being supervised by Dr. Darius Whelan and Dr. Mary Donnelly. The thesis analyses the consequences of Article 14 of the CRPD for the practice of involuntary detention/civil commitment by States Parties to the Convention. This is primarily achieved by way of an analysis of Ireland’s provisions on involuntary detention as contained in the Mental Health Act 2001 but the project also draws broader conclusions which will be applicable to a variety of legal jurisdictions. She was awarded an IRCHSS Government of Ireland scholarship for her PhD research in 2010. She was also the recipient of the ’Aidan Synnott Bursary Prize’ from the Faculty of Law at University College Cork in 2009.

Suzanne has tutored in Criminal Law and the Law of Equity and Trusts at University College Cork and has also lectured in the Law of Equity and Trusts at Griffith College Cork.

Her research interests are primarily in the field of international mental disability law, with particular focuses on the development of disability neutral policies and legislation which vindicate the right to liberty of persons with psychosocial disabilities and the sexual rights of persons with intellectual disabilities.

Suzanne is currently working as a research associate with the CDLP and is compiling a report for the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights on the implications of Article 19 of the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities for the use of EU Structural Funds.

Publications

•    The New Paradigm for Involuntary Detention - Article 14 of the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities and the Right to Liberty of Persons with Mental Disabilities (2012) Irish Yearbook of International Law Forthcoming Vol. IV/V

•    The Notion of Consent to Sexual Activity for Persons with Mental Disabilities (2010) 31(2) Liverpool L. Rev. 111

•    Ripples in a Whirlpool: Reservations to the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (2004) 4 ILR 114

Conference Contributions

•    The Involuntary Detention of Persons with Mental Disabilities and the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities ’Human Rights Protection and Criminal Justice in the Age of Crisis’ University College Cork CCJHR Postgraduate Conference 2011, Cork, Ireland, 28th of April 2011

•    The Notion of Consent to Sexual Activity for Persons with Mental Disabilities Good Sex, Bad Sex: Sex Law, Crime and Ethics Conference, Prague, Czech Republic, 3rd-5th of May 2010

•    The Notion of Consent to Sexual Activity for Persons with Mental Disabilities Feminist Disability Theories and the Law Workshop, School of Law, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia, 11th-12th of December 2009

•    ’The Inertia of Incapacity - Ireland and the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities ’The Promise of Law: Political Claims and the Boundaries of Justice’, University College Cork CCJHR Postgraduate Conference 2009, Cork, Ireland, 30th of April 2009