Dr Bríd Ní Ghráinne presents at the Irish Association of Law Teachers Annual Conference

Thursday, November 17, 2022 - 09:30

Dr Bríd Ní Ghráinne presented her research on internal displacement and refugee law at the recent Irish Association of Law Teachers Annual Conference at Queen’s University Belfast. Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) are persons who flee their homes for reasons such as war or natural disaster, but who remain within their countries. There are 59.1 million IDPs in the world today – outnumbering refugees by almost 2:1. Yet, IDPs have traditionally been seen as a domestic issue and received comparably little attention from scholars and the international community when compared to refugees.
 
Dr Ní Ghráinne’s presentation took place on 12 November 2022 and focused on her recently-published monograph, Internally Displaced Persons and International Refugee Law (Oxford University Press 2022). This work represents the first detailed analysis of the legal relationship between these two categories of forced migrants, and analyses to what extent the protection of IDPs complements, conflicts with, or undermines International Refugee Law.
 
Dr Bríd Ní Ghráinne is an Associate Professor at Maynooth University School of Law and Criminology where she teaches International Mooting and International Human Rights Law. You can read more about Bríd’s work here.