• NUI Galway Home
• Irish Centre for Human Rights ››
  • Home
  • Events and Conferences ››
    • Events and Announcements
    • Conferences
    • 2010 Lunchtime Seminars
    • Events Archive
  • Publications ››
    • News Bulletins and Annual Activity Reports
    • Republic of Letters Publishing
    • Banned Books Project
  • Staff
  • Degree Programmes ››
    • Doctoral Programme
    • Masters Programmes ››
      • Introduction
      • International Human Rights Law
      • Peace Support Operations
      • International Criminal Law
      • Economic Social and Cultural Rights
      • Cross Border Programme
      • Inter University Masters Programme
    • Undergraduate Programme
  • Doctoral Candidates
  • Summer Schools
  • Projects
  • International Law Association - Irish Branch
  • Links
  • Prof Schabas Ph.D. Blog

Kathleen Cavanaugh is currently a Lecturer of International Law in the Faculty of Law, Irish Centre for Human Rights (ICHR), National University of Ireland, Galway. She holds a B.A. in Political Science from the University of Connecticut, USA, LL.M (Distinction) from the Queen’s University of Belfast, Northern Ireland (1998), and PhD in Comparative Politics from the London School of Economics & Political Science (1997). She has held several Visiting Lectureships including: Visiting Research Fellow, Minerva Centre for Human Rights, Hebrew University, Israel (2001), and Visiting Lecturer, Department of International Relations, Boston University, Massachusetts, USA (Summer 1998) and, most recently, was awarded a Fellowship at the Centre for Socio-Legal Studies, University of Oxford (2006-7). From 2004-2006, she served as Graduate Studies Director, and, since 2002, has been the director of the internship programme.    

Her publications and current research agenda, academic interests and specialisation includes: the study of nationalism, ethnic conflict, political violence, applicable human rights laws in entrenched/states of emergency and the laws of belligerent occupation (IHL).  Here current research project Violence and the Liberal State investigates the repression-dissent nexus.  With regard to community service and activities outside the University, she is currently Chair of the Executive Committee of Amnesty International (Ireland) and a member of the International Policy Committee of Amnesty International.  As a consultant, she has undertaken numerous missions on behalf of Amnesty International including to Northern Ireland, Israel/Palestine and more recently, to Iraq (where she focussed on the conduct of the occupying powers with relation to detention and security).  She has conducted trainings for governmental as well as non-governmental organisations throughout the Middle East (Yemen, Jordan, Egypt, Morocco, Syria, Israel/Occupied Territories, Lebanon, and Sudan), India, and the Republic of Ireland.