Professor Rachel Murray
LL.B.(Leic.), LL.M.(Bristol), Ph.D.(W.England)
Current positions
Professor of International Human Rights
University of Bristol Law School
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Research interests
Human Rights, particularly national human rights commissions and African systems; Public International Law.
Projects and supervisions
Research projects
Developing a Human Rights Training Programme
Principal Investigator
Description
To develop materials and webinars for human rights training programme for the Regulation and Quality Improvement Authority,Managing organisational unit
University of Bristol Law SchoolDates
01/12/2021 to 31/03/2022
Developing an inspection framework for places of detention in British Overseas Territories,
Principal Investigator
Description
Research to develop recommendations to strengthen the provision of oversight of places of detention in the British Overseas Territories.Managing organisational unit
University of Bristol Law SchoolDates
01/06/2021 to 31/03/2022
Implementing Participatory-action Research To Explore The Impact Of COVID On War-affected Disabled Populations, Including Ex-child Soldiers, In Uganda
Principal Investigator
Managing organisational unit
University of Bristol Law SchoolDates
01/02/2021 to 31/12/2021
Ireland OPCAT project
Principal Investigator
Description
Ireland signed the Optional Protocol to the Convention Against Torture (OPCAT) on 2nd October 2007 but has yet to ratify this instrument. Ten years on, the Irish Human Rights and…Managing organisational unit
University of Bristol Law SchoolDates
01/12/2015 to 01/10/2017
Implementation of Human Rights Law at the national level: An Analysis of Domestic Mechanisms for Implementation
Principal Investigator
Description
The ESRC funded Human Rights Implementation Project (HRLIP) is a collaborative project between four leading academic human rights Centres (Bristol, Essex, Middlesex and Pretoria) and the Open Society Justice Initiative.
The…Managing organisational unit
University of Bristol Law SchoolDates
01/09/2015 to 28/02/2019
Thesis supervisions
The contemporary counter-terrorism model of inter-state co-operation
Supervisors
How constitutional arrangements for the exercise of self-determination by the territory of Somaliland may impact Somaliland’s engagement with the international human rights system?
Supervisors
Postcolonial Feminist Theory and the Shortcomings of International Law in Providing Sufficient Protection for Girl Soldiers in Armed Conflict. Case studies from the Sri Lankan and Ugandan wars
Supervisors
Situating the use and follow-up of ‘soft law’ findings of the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights and National Preventive Mechanisms within the discourse on implementation and compliance
Supervisors
The participation of amici curiae in the African human rights system
Supervisors
Revisiting the debate on the legal status of sustainable development in international law
Supervisors
Beyond accommodations
Supervisors
Publications
Recent publications
01/01/2023Article 26: Implementation and Monitoring
Commentary on the Protocol to the African Charter on Human and Peoples' Rights on the Rights of Women in Africa
The Protocol to the African Charter on Human and Peoples Rights on the Rights of Older Persons in Africa
Research Handbook on Law, Society and Ageing
Assistance to the ACHPR in the implementation of its decisions: The role of national mechanisms for implementation, reporting and follow-up (NMIRF)
Conference on Implementation and domestic impact of the decisions of the African Commission on Human and Peoples' Rights, Pretoria, Centre for Human Rights, South AFrica
Reflections on implementation
Exploring interdisciplinary appraoches to the implementation and impact of human rights decisions, Pretoria, Centre for Human Rights, South Africa
Changes in national human rights systems: The NHRI–NMIRF dynamic
Open Global Rights
