Dr Eadaoin O'Brien

Contact details

Name:
Dr Eadaoin O'Brien
Qualifications:
B.A. (Hons.) Anthropology & Sociology (NUI Maynooth), LL.M. International Human Rights Law (Irish Centre for Human Rights, NUI Galway), MSc. Human Identification (University of Dundee), PhD International Law (Irish Centre for Human Rights, NUI Galway)
Position/Fellowship type:
Graduate Fellow
Fellowship term:
15-May-2011 to 31-Aug-2012
Institute:
Human Rights Consortium
Email address:
Eadaoin.OBrien@sas.ac.uk

Research Summary and Profile

Research interests:
Human rights, International Law, Social Sciences
Summary of research interests and expertise:
Medico-legal investigations of war crimes, crimes against humanity and genocide and the use of forensic science expertise by international criminal tribunals; enforced disappearance; the missing and armed conflict; disaster victim identification; human rights law; international criminal law; international humanitarian law; anthropology
Publication Details

Related publications/articles:

Date Details
01-Jan-2013 Forensic Science and International Law: Cases, Problems and Perspectives

Edited Book

Niamh Hayes and Eadaoin O'Brien eds. (The Hague: TMC Asser Press, 2012)

01-Jan-2013 Investigating Atrocity Crimes

Chapters

in Niamh Hayes and Eadaoin O'Brien eds.,'Forensic Science and International Law: Cases, Problems and Perspectives' (The Hague: TMC Asser Press) (forthcoming)

01-Jan-2012 Forensic science, international criminal law, and the duties toward persons killed in war

Chapters

In D.P. Keane and Y. McDermott, (eds.), 'The Challenge of Human Rights: Past, Present and Future', Cheltenham, UK and Northampton, MA, USA: Edward Elgar Publishing.

01-Jan-2012 The London Debates 2011: What Future for Human Rights in a Non-Western World?

Conference papers

Co-edited with Simon Bennett

01-Jan-2011 The International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia and the investigation of mass graves: Strengthening fair trial guarantees through the application of forensic science

Chapters

In Querkin Berisha and Luciana Goisis (eds.), 'Un Percorso Di Studio Sui Diritti Umani', University of Bergamo Press

01-Jan-2011 In the shadow of the ICC: Colombia and international criminal justice

Research aids

Report of international conference, 26-27 May 2011; Co-author with David James Cantor and Par Engstrom

01-Jan-2011 The Role of the ICRC in Protecting and Assisting Refugees and Displaced Persons

Research aids

Report of international workshop, 20 September 2011; Co-author with David James Cantor and Helen Hayford

01-Jan-2010 The Contribution of Forensic Anthropology to International Criminal Justice: Mass grave exhumations conducted by United Nations International Criminal Tribunals

Journal articles

Irish Journal of Anthropology, 13(2)

01-Jan-2006 Remembering Chernobyl: Individual and Social Memories from Belarus

Journal articles

Irish Journal of Anthropology, 9(1)

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