Dr Aisling O’Sullivan is an Associate Professor in International Law and Co-Director of the Sussex Centre for Human Rights Research (2022-Present) at Sussex Law School. She teaches public international Law, human rights, international criminal law and critical theory on the LLM and LLB degrees. She holds a PhD in Human Rights Law from the Irish Centre for Human Rights, National University of Ireland, Galway, an LLM in International Legal Studies from the University of Durham and an LLB in Law from the University of Limerick, Ireland. She was previously an Irish Research Council project researcher in the Irish Centre for Human Rights and has held visiting research positions at the Sydney Centre for International Law, University of Sydney, Australia and at Trinity College Dublin, Ireland.

Aisling’s research is in the fields of international human rights law and international criminal law, particularly human rights in emergency situations and critiques of international criminal justice. Her research is inter-disciplinary and draws on critiques of “conventional” narratives in the field of international law and on empirical archival research in state and private archives. She has a track record of publications in both international and national peer-reviewed journals and with leading international publishers, including a research monograph entitled 'Universal Criminal Jurisdiction in International Criminal Law: The Debate and the Battle for Hegemony' (Routledge 2017), see http://bit.ly/2kBaN5c. She is currently involved in two collaborative research projects in field of international human rights law – ‘Internment on Trial: A History of the Ireland v United Kingdom case’ with Prof William A. Schabas, Middlesex University to be published by Cambridge University Press and ‘Diplomacy and Advocacy’ with Prof Roja Fazaeli, University of Galway, Ireland. 

She was previously co-convenor of the International Law Section of the Society of Legal Scholars with Dr Richard Collins (Associate Professor in International Law), University College Dublin (2017-2020) and she regularly disseminates her research at international and national academic conferences, such as at the European Society of International Law, the Society of Legal Scholars, the Royal Irish Academy Annual Conference on International Affairs and Hague Academic Coalition Conference ‘The Politics of Justice’. She also engages in research consultancy with relevant stakeholders and has been consulted on her archival research by the RTE (Irish public broadcaster), KRW Law, Committee for the Administration of Justice (Belfast) and the Irish Department of Foreign Affairs.

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Twitter: @AisOSullivan