Dr Bríd Ní Ghráinne
Biography
Bríd is an expert in Public International Law, particularly on the topic of Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs), which refers to the ca. 55 million people who have been forced to flee their homes but who remain within their states. The complexity of reasons for which IDPs flee has meant that her research spans human rights law, humanitarian law, disaster law, law of the sea, international refugee law, as well as general Public International Law. Bríd has published widely in these areas in leading journals such as Human Rights Law Review, International and Comparative Law Quarterly, Legal Studies, Refugee Survey Quarterly, and International Journal of Refugee Law. Her monograph entitled 'Internally Displaced Persons and International Refugee Law' will be published with Oxford University Press in spring 2022.
Aside from her post at Maynooth, Bríd is a Senior Researcher at the Judicial Studies Institute, Masaryk University and the Institute of International Relations, Prague; a Senior Research Affiliate and Lecturer at the Refugee Law Initiative, University of London; and a Visiting Research Fellow at the University of Reading. She is an Expert Member of the Research, Development, and Innovation Council of the Czech Government and is also Co-Editor-in-Chief of the Irish Yearbook of International Law. Bríd regularly appears in both English and Irish-language media as a commentator in her areas of expertise.
Previously, Bríd was Principal Investigator on the ‘Safe Zones in International Law’ project funded by the Czech Ministry of Education at Masaryk University, Czech Republic. She has been a consultant to Greenpeace East Asia, Oxford Analytica, Ukrainian-based NGO Stabilisation Support Services, and the UN Secretary-General's High Level Panel on Internal Displacement. Bríd has also worked closely with the Council of Europe in relation to IDP issues. In 2017 she was appointed as one of four Expert Members of the Council of Europe’s Working Group on IDPs, and she will act as a legal consultant for the Council of Europe's work with IDPs in Ukraine in 2021 and 2022.
From 2014-2018, Bríd was a Lecturer at the University of Sheffield where she won two of the University’s top teaching awards. She has also previously worked as a Trainee at the Legal Division of the Irish Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade and taught at the Universities of Helsinki, Cyprus, Oxford, and Shandong University China. Bríd holds a DPhil from the University of Oxford; an LLM (Public International Law) from Leiden University; a BCL (International) from NUI Galway; and diplomas in Legal French and Legal Irish from the Law Society of Ireland and NUI Galway, respectively.
Bríd teaches International Human Rights Law and International Humanitarian Law at Maynooth. She welcomes potential research students, collaborations, and media enquiries pertaining to any of her research areas.
Aside from her post at Maynooth, Bríd is a Senior Researcher at the Judicial Studies Institute, Masaryk University and the Institute of International Relations, Prague; a Senior Research Affiliate and Lecturer at the Refugee Law Initiative, University of London; and a Visiting Research Fellow at the University of Reading. She is an Expert Member of the Research, Development, and Innovation Council of the Czech Government and is also Co-Editor-in-Chief of the Irish Yearbook of International Law. Bríd regularly appears in both English and Irish-language media as a commentator in her areas of expertise.
Previously, Bríd was Principal Investigator on the ‘Safe Zones in International Law’ project funded by the Czech Ministry of Education at Masaryk University, Czech Republic. She has been a consultant to Greenpeace East Asia, Oxford Analytica, Ukrainian-based NGO Stabilisation Support Services, and the UN Secretary-General's High Level Panel on Internal Displacement. Bríd has also worked closely with the Council of Europe in relation to IDP issues. In 2017 she was appointed as one of four Expert Members of the Council of Europe’s Working Group on IDPs, and she will act as a legal consultant for the Council of Europe's work with IDPs in Ukraine in 2021 and 2022.
From 2014-2018, Bríd was a Lecturer at the University of Sheffield where she won two of the University’s top teaching awards. She has also previously worked as a Trainee at the Legal Division of the Irish Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade and taught at the Universities of Helsinki, Cyprus, Oxford, and Shandong University China. Bríd holds a DPhil from the University of Oxford; an LLM (Public International Law) from Leiden University; a BCL (International) from NUI Galway; and diplomas in Legal French and Legal Irish from the Law Society of Ireland and NUI Galway, respectively.
Bríd teaches International Human Rights Law and International Humanitarian Law at Maynooth. She welcomes potential research students, collaborations, and media enquiries pertaining to any of her research areas.
Research Projects
Book
| Year | Publication | |
|---|---|---|
| 2022 | Ní Ghráinne B. (2022) Internally displaced persons and international refugee law. [DOI] |
Book Chapter
| Year | Publication | |
|---|---|---|
| 2023 | Bríd Ní Ghráinne, Ben Hudson (2023) 'The International Organisation for Migration’s Engagement with the Guiding Principles on Internal Displacement' In: IOM Unbound? Obligations and Accountability of the International Organization for Migration in an Era of Expansion. Cambridge : Cambridge University Press. | |
| 2021 | Bríd Ní Ghráinne (2021) 'The Internal Protection Alternative' In: Oxford Handbook of International Refugee Law. Oxford : Oxford University Press. [Link] | |
| 2021 | Bríd Ní Ghráinne, David Kosar (2021) 'State Responsibility' In: Casebook on Cybersecurity. Brno : Masaryk University Press. | |
| 2021 | Bríd Ní Ghráinne (2021) 'Teaching Refugee Law with Moot Courts' In: Learning and Teaching the Law Affecting Migrants: Theory and Practice. Abindgon : Routledge. | |
| 2019 | Bríd Ní Ghráinne (2019) 'Internally Displaced Persons and International Refugee Law' In: Research Handbook on International Refugee Law. Cheltenham : Edward Elgar. [DOI] | |
| 2017 | Bríd Ní Ghráinne (2017) 'The 2015 Andaman Sea Boat Crisis: Human Rights and Refugee Law Considerations' In: Blurring Boundaries: Human Security and Forced Migration. Leiden : Brill. [DOI] |
Peer Reviewed Journal
| Year | Publication | |
|---|---|---|
| 2021 | Ben Hudson; Bríd Ní Ghráinne (2021) 'Enhancing State-to-State Dialogue on Internal Displacement: Current Global Fora and Future Prospects'. Refugee Survey Quarterly, . [Link] [Full-Text] | |
| 2020 | Bríd Ní Ghráinne (2020) 'Safe Zones and the Internal Protection Alternative'. International and Comparative Law Quarterly, . [Link] [DOI] [Full-Text] | |
| 2019 | Bríd Ní Ghráinne; Aisling McMahon (2019) 'Abortion in Northern Ireland and the European Court of Human Rights: Reflections from the UK Supreme Court'. International and Comparative Law Quarterly, . [Link] [DOI] [Full-Text] | |
| 2019 | Bríd Ní Ghráinne; Aisling McMahon (2019) 'Access to Abortion in Cases of Fatal Foetal Abnormality: A New Direction for the European Court of Human Rights?'. Human Rights Law Review, . [DOI] [Full-Text] | |
| 2017 | Bríd Ní Ghráinne (2017) 'Left to Die at Sea: State Responsibility for the May 2015 Thai, Indonesian and Malaysian Pushback Operations'. Irish Yearbook of International Law, . [Full-Text] | |
| 2017 | Bríd Ní Ghráinne; Aisling McMahon (2017) 'A Public International Law Approach to Safeguard Nationality for Surrogate-Born Children'. Legal Studies, 37 (2):324-342. [Link] [DOI] [Full-Text] | |
| 2015 | Bríd Ní Ghráinne (2015) 'The Internal Protection Alternative Inquiry and Human Rights Considerations - Irrelevant or Indispensable?'. International Journal of Refugee Law, . [Link] [DOI] [Full-Text] | |
| 2014 | Bríd Ní Ghráinne (2014) 'UNHCR's Involvement with IDPs - 'Protection of that Country' for the Purposes of Precluding Refugee Status?'. International Journal of Refugee Law, . [Link] [DOI] [Full-Text] |
Other Journal
| Year | Publication | |
|---|---|---|
| 2021 | Bríd Ní Ghráinne (2021) 'Safe Zones and Human Rights Law' Perspectives on Terrorism, . | |
| 2013 | Bríd Ní Ghráinne (2013) 'How Refugee Law Became Politicised: An Irish Perspective' Refugee Review, . | |
| 2018 | Aisling McMahon; Bríd Ní Ghráinne (2018) 'After the 8th: Ireland, Abortion, and International Law' Medico-Legal Journal of Ireland, . [DOI] [Full-Text] |
Conference Contribution
Blog
| Year | Publication | |
|---|---|---|
| 2017 | Bríd Ní Ghráinne; Aisling McMahon (2017) Ireland’s Violation of International Abortion Rights: A Perpetual Déjà vu. BLOG [Link] | |
| 2017 | Bríd Ní Ghráinne; Maria Vera Espinoza; Clara Sandelind (2017) Safe Return Review Policy: Counter–Productive and Morally Indefensible. BLOG [Link] | |
| 2015 | Bríd Ní Ghráinne (2015) Hungary's Actions: Past the Borderline of International Law. BLOG [Link] | |
| 2014 | Bríd Ní Ghráinne (2014) Implementation of Tripartite Agreement on Hold. BLOG [Link] |
Book Review
| Year | Publication | |
|---|---|---|
| 2013 | Bríd Ní Ghráinne (2013) Review of Thomas Gammeltoft-Hansen, Access to Asylum: International Refugee Law and the Globalisation of Migration Control, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2011, pp. 284. + £63.00. BREV [DOI] | |
| 2012 | Bríd Ní Ghráinne (2012) Review of Guy S. Goodwin-Gill and Helene Lambert (eds.), The Limits of Transnational Law: Refugee Law, Policy Harmonization and Judicial Dialogue in the European Union, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2010, 280pp., ISBN 9780521198202, £54.00. BREV [DOI] |
Consultancy
| Year | Publication | |
|---|---|---|
| 2020 | Ben Hudson; Bríd Ní Ghráinne (2020) Inter-State Dialogue on Internal Displacement: Promoting Global Platforms?. CONS [Link] |
Encyclopedia Entry
| Year | Publication | |
|---|---|---|
| 2015 | Bríd Ní Ghráinne (2015) Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs). ENC [DOI] [Full-Text] |
Policy Contribution
| Year | Publication | |
|---|---|---|
| 2020 | Bríd Ní Ghráinne (2020) The Syrian Safe Zone and International Law. POLICY [Link] | |
| 2020 | Bríd Ní Ghráinne (2020) Covid-19, Border Closures, and International Law. POLICY [Full-Text] | |
| 2018 | Bríd Ní Ghráinne; Aisling McMahon (2018) Ireland is Likely to Liberalise Abortion Laws. POLICY | |
| 2017 | Bríd Ní Ghráinne (2017) Syrian Zones may be neither Safe nor Legal'. POLICY | |
| 2017 | Bríd Ní Ghráinne (2017) Africa may lead on displacement management. Oxford: POLICY |
Certain data included herein are derived from the © Web of Science (2023) of Clarivate. All rights reserved.
Honors and Awards
Employment
Education
Teaching Interests
Bríd has over ten years' experience of teaching international law. At Maynooth, she teaches humanitarian law at postgraduate level and international human rights law at undergraduate level. She has also taught the law of international organisations, the politics of international law, introduction to international law, international law mooting, humanitarian law, human rights law, and refugee law at universities all over the world, including the University of Oxford, University of Cyprus, Masaryk University, University of Helsinki, University of Sheffield, and Shandong University China. Bríd's teaching engages significantly with active learning methods, such as debates, moot courts, and mock UN General Assembly sessions. She completed the University of Sheffield's Certificate in Learning and Teaching and is a Fellow of the UK Higher Education Academy.
Bríd won two of the University of Sheffield's top teaching awards - The Students' Union Employability Award (2015) and the Faculty of Social Sciences' 'Outstanding Practice in Teaching and Learning' award (2017). Her students nominated her for a further two University-level and three national-level teaching awards. Bríd has coached four moot court teams which won the UK national championships in their respective competitions (Jessup 2014, Telders 2015, Telders 2017, and European Human Rights Moot Court 2018). Most of these teams also finished in the top handful of teams worldwide in the international finals of their respective competitions.
Bríd also has significant experience supervising and examining PhD theses. She is very open to being contacted by applicants wishing to pursue a PhD project in international law, forced migration, and human rights.
Bríd won two of the University of Sheffield's top teaching awards - The Students' Union Employability Award (2015) and the Faculty of Social Sciences' 'Outstanding Practice in Teaching and Learning' award (2017). Her students nominated her for a further two University-level and three national-level teaching awards. Bríd has coached four moot court teams which won the UK national championships in their respective competitions (Jessup 2014, Telders 2015, Telders 2017, and European Human Rights Moot Court 2018). Most of these teams also finished in the top handful of teams worldwide in the international finals of their respective competitions.
Bríd also has significant experience supervising and examining PhD theses. She is very open to being contacted by applicants wishing to pursue a PhD project in international law, forced migration, and human rights.