Maynooth University Department of Law is very pleased to welcome Dr Claire Hamilton.
Claire practised as a barrister in criminal law until 2004 when she became a full time academic. Prior to joining Maynooth University she worked for several years as a lecturer in criminology in Dublin Institute of Technology and Queen's University Belfast. She has published widely in various national and international legal and criminological journals, including the British Journal of Criminology, the European Journal of Criminology, and the European Journal on Criminal Policy and Research.
Claire has author of three books and is currently working (with her fellow co-editors) on an edited collection on Irish criminology to be published by Routledge in 2015. She is also currently writing up comparative research into counter-terrorism which was conducted in the US as a recipient of a Fulbright-Schuman award co-funded by the Fulbright Commission and the European Commission. She is currently a member of the Social Sciences Committee of the Royal Irish Academy, the Advisory Board of the Irish Innocence Project and the Executive Committee of the Irish Council for Civil Liberties. She is also the Secretary of the Irish Association of Law Teachers. Claire welcomes research proposals in the area of criminology, penology and criminal justice/procedure, particularly proposals with a comparative element.