shane darcy

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Shane Darcy is a lecturer at the Irish Centre for Human Rights, National University of Ireland Galway and Director of the Ph.D Programme at the Centre. He holds a B.A. in Law and Accounting from the University of Limerick (2001), and LL.M (2002) and Ph.D (2005) degrees from the National University of Ireland, Galway. Prior to joining the academic staff of the Centre, he was a lecturer at the University of Ulster, a Government of Ireland Scholar and a Doctoral Fellow at the Irish Centre for Human Rights.  In 2007, he was awarded the Eda Sagarra Medal for excellence in the Humanities and Social Sciences by the Irish Research Council for the Humanities and Social Sciences, and in 2010 the Journal of International Criminal Justice Prize.

Teaching and research interests are in the fields of international humanitarian law, international criminal law, business and human rights and transitional justice. Shane is currently teaching public international law, business and human Rights, transitional justice and procedure before international criminal courts. He is engaged in research projects exploring the judicial development of international criminal law and humanitarian law. Shane has participated in trainings, workshops and research projects in Iraq, Iran, South Africa, India, Cambodia, China, and the Occupied Palestinian Territories. He is an Associate Editor of Criminal Law Forum.

Publications

Books

• Judicial Creativity at the International Criminal Tribunals, Shane Darcy and Joseph Powderly (eds.), Oxford University Press, 2010.
• Collective Responsibility and Accountability under International Law, Ardsley, New York: Transnational Publishers, 2007.
  
• Truth Commission and Courts: The Tension Between Criminal Prosecutions and the Search for Truth, William A. Schabas and Shane Darcy (eds.), The Hague: Kluwer Academic Publishers, January 2005

Journal Articles

• ’An Enduring Occupation: The Status of the Gaza Strip from the Perspective of International Humanitarian Law’, 15 Journal of Conflict and Security Law 2 (2010) 211-243 [with John Reynolds].
• ’Prosecuting the War Crime of Collective Punishment; Is it Time to Amend the Rome Statute?’, 8 Journal of International Criminal Justice 1 (2010) 29-51.
• ’Business and Development: A two-way street? Corporations, Human Rights and the Accountability Challenge’, Trócaire Development Review (2009) 21-35.
• ’ Imputed Criminal Liability and the Goals of International Justice’, 20 Leiden Journal of International Law 2 (2007) 377-404.
• ’Human Rights Protection during the War on Terror; Two Steps Back, One Step Forward’, 16 Minnesota Journal of International Law 2 (2007) 353-370.
• ’What Future for the Doctrine of Belligerent Reprisals?’, 5 Yearbook of International Humanitarian Law (2002) 107-130.
• ’Achieving De Facto Equality between Men and Women; Making the Employment Equality Act, 1998 Work’, 13 Irish Law Times (2004) 199-203.
• ’Punitive House Demolitions, the Prohibition of Collective Punishment and the Supreme Court of Israel’, 21 Penn State International Law Review 3 (2003) 477-507.
• ’The Evolution of the Law of Belligerent Reprisals’, 175 Military Law Review (2003) 184-251.
• ’The Rights of Minorities in States of Emergency’, 9 International Journal on Minority and Group Rights (2002) 345-369.

 Book Chapters

• ’The Reinvention of War Crimes by the International Criminal Tribunals’, in Shane Darcy and Joseph Powderly (eds.), Judicial Creativity at the International Criminal Tribunals, Oxford University Press, 2010, 106-128.
• ’ Defences to international crimes’, in William A. Schabas and Nadia Bernaz, Handbook of International Criminal Law, Routledge, 2010, 231-245.
• ’Bridging the Gaps in the Laws of Armed Conflict? International Criminal Tribunals and the Development of Humanitarian Law’, in Noelle Quenivet and Shilan Shah-Davis, International Law and Armed Conflict; Challenges in the 21^st Century, T.M.C. Asser Press, 2010, 319-337.
• ’The Doctrine of Superior Responsibility’, in Ola Olusanya (ed.), Rethinking International Criminal Law, Europa Law, 2007, 129-152.

Book Reviews

• Michael Kearney, The Prohibition of Propaganda for War in International Law, 2 Irish Yearbook of International Law (2009) [forthcoming]
• Ray Murphy, UN Peacekeeping in Lebanon, Somalia and Kosovo; Operational and Legal Issues in Practice, 13 Journal of Conflict and Security Law (2008) 293.
• The Legacy of War Crimes Trials, reviewing: Madoka Futamura, War Crimes Tribunals and Transitional Justice; The Tokyo Trial and the Nuremberg Legacy, 19 Criminal Law Forum 2 (2008).
• Human Rights and Armed Forces, reviewing: Peter Rowe, The Impact of Human Rights Law on Armed Forces, 17 Criminal Law Forum 2 (2006).
• Teaching International Criminal Law, reviewing: Edward M. Wise, Ellen S. Podgor and Roger S. Clark, International Criminal Law; Cases and Materials (2^nd edn.), 17 Criminal Law Forum 3/4 (2006), 401.
• Stuart Maslen, Mine Action After Diana; Progress in the Struggle Against Landmines, 5 Ethnic Conflict Research Digest 1 (2005).
• Dimitri V. Trenin, Aleksei V. Malashenko and Anatol Lieven, Russia's Restless Frontier; The Chechnya Factor in Post-Soviet Russia, 5 Ethnic Conflict Research Digest 1 (2005).

Conference Papers

• ’Prosecuting War Crimes: Research Challenges for the 21^st Century’, Revitalising Research in Kurdistan, Erbil, Kurdistan, Iraq, 14-16 December 2010.
• ’’A Social and International Order for the Realisation of Human Rights’: The Promise of Article 28 of the Universal Declaration’, Forgotten Rights, Forgotten Concepts, Irish Centre for Human Rights 10^th Anniversary Conference, NUI, Galway, 19^th – 20^th November 2010.
•  ’The Role of Truth Commission in Articulating Norms’, Corporations and Armed Conflict: The Role of International Law, Irish Centre for Human rights, NUI, Galway, 8^th – 9^th April 2010 [with Anita Ramasastray].
• ’Judging War Crimes: The Legacy of the Ad Hoc Tribunals’, Irish-American Human Rights Exchange, Center for Civil and Human Rights, University of Notre Dame, South Bend, USA, 9^th -10^th October 2009.
• ’Apartheid under International Law, Occupation, Colonialism, Apartheid? A Re-assessment of Israeli Practices in the Occupied Palestinian Territories’, Al-Haq and Adalah Symposium, Palestinian Red Crescent Society, Ramallah, 16^th August 2009.
• ’The Development of War Crimes by the ICTY and ICTR’, Recent Developments in International Criminal Law, International Symposium, Kader Has University, Istanbul, Turkey, 16^th April 2009.
• ’Bridging the Gaps in the Laws of Armed Conflict? International Criminal Tribunals and the Development of Humanitarian Law’, International Law and Armed Conflict Symposium, University of the West of England, 3^rd - 5^th September 2008.
• ’Occupied Territory or Hostile Entity? The Status of Gaza under International Law’, Palestine and International Law, School of International Relations, Tehran, Iran, 12^th - 13^th May 2008.
•  ’Accountability and the Legal Obligations of Corporate Entities in Times of Conflict and Transition’, The Socio-Legal Studies Association Annual Conference 2007, University of Kent, Canterbury, UK, 3^rd - 5^th April 2007.
• ’Human Rights Protection in the “War on Terror”: Two Steps Backwards, One Step Forward’, War on Terror: International and Interdisciplinary Perspectives, University of Minnesota Law School, USA, 9^th - 10^th November 2006.
• ’Imputed Criminal Liability and the Goals of International Justice’, Workshop on International Criminal Justice in the Age of Globalization, International Institute for the Sociology of Law, Onate, Spain, 17^th - 19^th May 2006.
• ’Extraterritorial Application of the UK Human Rights Act in Iraq: Implications and Challenges’, The Socio-Legal Studies Association Annual Conference 2006, University of Stirling, Scotland, 28^th -30^th March 2006.
• 'Am I my Brother's Keeper? Subordinate crime and the doctrine of superior responsibility’, 19^th Conference of the International Society for the Reform of Criminal Law, Edinburgh, Scotland, 26^th - 30^th June 2005.
• ’International Humanitarian Law and the Question of Collective Responsibility’, (Agora on International Humanitarian Law), Inaugural Conference of the European Society of International Law, Florence, Italy, 13^th - 15^th May 2004.
• ’The Concept of Criminal Organisations: A Human Rights Perspective’, Annual Conference of the Irish Association of Law Teachers, City Hotel, Derry, 2^nd- 4^th April 2004.
• ’What Future for the Doctrine of Belligerent Reprisals’, Annual Conference of the Association of Human Rights Institutes, University of Essex, United Kingdom, 19^th -21^st September 2003.
• ’The Joint Criminal Enterprise Doctrine as relied upon by the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia’, Annual Conference of the Socio-Legal Studies Association (SLSA), Nottingham, United Kingdom, 14^{th -} 16^th April 2003.
• ’IDF Security Measures in the Occupied Territories, Defending Human Rights in Conflicts and Emergencies’, Nottingham School of Law Student Conference 2003, University of Nottingham, United Kingdom, 15^th March 2003.

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