Dr Aoife Duffy

School of Law, University of Essex

Dr. Aoife Duffy is an interdisciplinary human rights scholar currently affiliated with University of Essex’s Human Rights Centre. Prior to this posting, Aoife held lectureships at the National University of Ireland Galway and Dublin City University. Aoife has been the recipient of various awards and grants, including the prestigious Department of Foreign Affairs Andrew Grene scholarship in conflict resolution for her doctoral studies. With a broad horizon of research interests, Aoife has published on topics ranging from indigenous peoples’ rights to states of emergency in such journals as Human Rights Quarterly, the Journal of Refugee Law, and the International Journal of Transitional Justice. Aoife’s transitional justice scholarship examining major paradigm shifts with a retrospective lens led to the development of new historiographies shedding light on legacy issues in various case studies. Several of these have been published, including a monograph with Routledge - Torture and Human Rights in Northern Ireland: Interrogation in Depth. In tandem with legal histories, Aoife built up expertise on intelligence/security operations, detention without trial, interrogation and torture.