Update

Current HREC news

The School of Law obtained a '5' rating - the second highest rating possible - in the recent UK-Wide Research Assessment Exercise (RAE), covering the period 1996-2001. All of the Law School staff whose publications were submitted for evaluation in that exercise, are also members of HREC. This marks a significant improvement on the 3b rating secured in 1996. For further information on the RAE, see www.rae.ac.uk.

The NI Human Rights Commission's draft Bill of Rights is currently out for consultation until the end of December 2001. The Bill of Rights is another significant and far-reaching consequence of the peace process and the Belfast/Good Friday Agreement. The Bill of Rights and other related governance matters will feature in the next seminar in the ESRC-sponsored Transitional Justice seminar series. For details of seminars see http://www.busmgt.ulst.ac.uk/transitionaljustice/semdetails.html 

A team of researchers from the Centre, managed by Dermot Feenan and including Patricia Maxwell, Ursula O'Hare and Barry Fitzpatrick recently completed an audit of the rights of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgendered Persons in Northern Ireland for the NIHRC. For a copy of the research see http://www.nihrc.org/update/new_page_1.htm

Professor Colm Campbell is currently on sabbatical, as a Visiting Senior Research Fellow at Jesus College, Oxford.

Dermot Feenan will be on sabbatical, for the duration of semester two, in Cornell University, New York, USA, as part of the Gender, Sexuality, Family Law and Human Rights Programme.

Professor Barry Fitzpatrick, the new Law School Head, was a participant in the Irish Centre for European Law and NIHRC joint conference on the EU Charter of Rights, held on the 9th November, in Belfast. 

Professor Fionnuala Ni Aolain continues to sit on the Irish Human Rights Commission, while Professor Christine Bell is a member of the equivalent body in Northern Ireland. Angela Hegarty has resigned from the NIHRC to concentrate on research.

A new postgraduate degree, LLM in Human Rights and Equality Law, is currently in the planning stages and should enrol its first students in 2002-3. The Course Development Committee is being chaired by Ciaran White. For a preview of the course structure see "Postgraduate study" page in HREC website.

Three new DPhil students have commenced postgraduate studies on human rights topics from October 2001. The three students are Patrick McNeill, Michelle Brown, Esther McVeigh.

Last Update:18/12/2001

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