Dr Bríd Ní Ghráinne

    Law

    Senior Lecturer / Associate Professor

    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.

    Research Projects

      Project Role Funding Body / Program Description Start Date End Date Award (€)
    Maynooth University Summer Programme for Undergraduate Research Principal Investigator MU Internal Funding Schemes / 16-JUN-21 31-AUG-21 1500
    Safe Zones in International Law Principal Investigator / 03-SEP-18 31-AUG-20 70000

    Books

      Year Publication
    2022 Internally Displaced Persons and International Refugee Law.
    Bríd Ní Ghráinne (2022) Internally Displaced Persons and International Refugee Law. Oxford: Oxford University Press. [Details]

    Book Chapters

      Year Publication
    2022 'The International Organisation for Migration’s Engagement with the Guiding Principles on Internal Displacement'
    Bríd Ní Ghráinne, Ben Hudson (2022) '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. [Details]
    2021 'The Internal Protection Alternative'
    Bríd Ní Ghráinne (2021) 'The Internal Protection Alternative' In: Oxford Handbook of International Refugee Law. Oxford: Oxford University Press. [Details]
    2021 'State Responsibility'
    Bríd Ní Ghráinne, David Kosar (2021) 'State Responsibility' In: Casebook on Cybersecurity. Brno: Masaryk University Press. [Details]
    2021 'Teaching Refugee Law with Moot Courts'
    Bríd Ní Ghráinne (2021) 'Teaching Refugee Law with Moot Courts' In: Learning and Teaching the Law Affecting Migrants: Theory and Practice. Abindgon: Routledge. [Details]
    2019 'Internally Displaced Persons and International Refugee Law'
    Bríd Ní Ghráinne (2019) 'Internally Displaced Persons and International Refugee Law' In: Research Handbook on International Refugee Law. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar. [DOI] [Details]
    2017 'The 2015 Andaman Sea Boat Crisis: Human Rights and Refugee Law Considerations'
    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] [Details]

    Edited Books

      Year Publication
    2020 Cybersecurity Law Casebook 2020
    Anna-Maria Osula, Bríd Ní Ghráinne et al (Ed.). (2020) Cybersecurity Law Casebook 2020 Masaryk University Brno: Masaryk University Press. [Details]

    Peer Reviewed Journals

      Year Publication
    2021 'Enhancing State-to-State Dialogue on Internal Displacement: Current Global Fora and Future Prospects'
    Ben Hudson; Bríd Ní Ghráinne (2021) 'Enhancing State-to-State Dialogue on Internal Displacement: Current Global Fora and Future Prospects'. Refugee Survey Quarterly, [full-text] [Details]
    2020 'Safe Zones and the Internal Protection Alternative'
    Bríd Ní Ghráinne (2020) 'Safe Zones and the Internal Protection Alternative'. International and Comparative Law Quarterly, [DOI] [full-text] [Details]
    2019 'Abortion in Northern Ireland and the European Court of Human Rights: Reflections from the UK Supreme Court'
    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, [DOI] [full-text] [Details]
    2019 'Access to Abortion in Cases of Fatal Foetal Abnormality: A New Direction for the European Court of Human Rights?'
    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] [Details]
    2017 'Left to Die at Sea: State Responsibility for the May 2015 Thai, Indonesian and Malaysian Pushback Operations'
    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] [Details]
    2017 'A Public International Law Approach to Safeguard Nationality for Surrogate-Born Children'
    Bríd Ní Ghráinne; Aisling McMahon (2017) 'A Public International Law Approach to Safeguard Nationality for Surrogate-Born Children'. Legal Studies, 37 (2):324-342 [DOI] [full-text] [Details]
    2015 'The Internal Protection Alternative Inquiry and Human Rights Considerations - Irrelevant or Indispensable?'
    Bríd Ní Ghráinne (2015) 'The Internal Protection Alternative Inquiry and Human Rights Considerations - Irrelevant or Indispensable?'. International Journal of Refugee Law, [DOI] [full-text] [Details]
    2014 'UNHCR's Involvement with IDPs - 'Protection of that Country' for the Purposes of Precluding Refugee Status?'
    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, [DOI] [full-text] [Details]

    Other Journals

      Year Publication
    2021 'Safe Zones and Human Rights Law'
    Bríd Ní Ghráinne (2021) 'Safe Zones and Human Rights Law' Mezinárodní Politika, . [Details]
    2013 'How Refugee Law Became Politicised: An Irish Perspective'
    Bríd Ní Ghráinne (2013) 'How Refugee Law Became Politicised: An Irish Perspective' Refugee Review, . [Details]
    2018 'After the 8th: Ireland, Abortion, and International Law'
    Aisling McMahon; Bríd Ní Ghráinne (2018) 'After the 8th: Ireland, Abortion, and International Law' Medico-Legal Journal of Ireland, . [DOI] [full-text] [Details]

    Conference Contributions

      Year Publication
    2021 Publishing for Early Career Researchers.
    Bríd Ní Ghráinne (2021) Publishing for Early Career Researchers. [Oral Presentation], QUB Law PhD Student Research Network, Queen's University Belfast [Details]
    2020 Internally Displaced Persons and International Refugee Law.
    Bríd Ní Ghráinne (2020) Internally Displaced Persons and International Refugee Law. [Invited Lecture], Interdisciplinary Migration Research Seminar, Danube University Krems [Details]
    2020 Safe Zones and International Law.
    Bríd Ní Ghráinne (2020) Safe Zones and International Law. [Oral Presentation], 3rd Conference of the German Network of Forced Migration Researchers, Cologne [Details]
    2020 The European Refugee 'Crisis'.
    Bríd Ní Ghráinne (2020) The European Refugee 'Crisis'. [Invited Lecture], Putney Student Travel, Croatia [Details]
    2020 Non-State Actors as International Law-Makers.
    Bríd Ní Ghráinne (2020) Non-State Actors as International Law-Makers. [Oral Presentation], Judicial Studies Institute Seminar Series, Masaryk University, Czech Republic [Details]
    2020 What British Reviewers Want.
    Bríd Ní Ghráinne (2020) What British Reviewers Want. [Invited Lecture], Faculty of Social Science Seminar, Masaryk University, Czech Republic [Details]
    2019 Safe Zones as Humanitarian Intervention.
    Bríd Ní Ghráinne (2019) Safe Zones as Humanitarian Intervention. [Oral Presentation], University of Michigan Junior Scholars Conference, University of Michigan, USA [Details]
    2019 Safe Zones as Humanitarian Intervention.
    Bríd Ní Ghráinne (2019) Safe Zones as Humanitarian Intervention. [Oral Presentation], Responsibility to Protect in Theory and Practice Conference, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia [Details]
    2019 Pension Rights of Internally Displaced Persons under International Law.
    Bríd Ní Ghráinne (2019) Pension Rights of Internally Displaced Persons under International Law. [Oral Presentation], Protecting the Pension Rights of Internally Displaced Persons in Ukraine, Kyiv, Ukraine [Details]
    2019 Safe Zones and Human Rights Law.
    Bríd Ní Ghráinne (2019) Safe Zones and Human Rights Law. [Oral Presentation], Refugee Law Initiative Fourth Annual Conference, University of London [Details]
    2019 Safe Zones: An International Lawyer's Perspective.
    Bríd Ní Ghráinne (2019) Safe Zones: An International Lawyer's Perspective. [Invited Lecture], Institute for the Study of International Migration, Georgetown University, USA [Details]
    2019 Safe Zones and Proportionality.
    Bríd Ní Ghráinne (2019) Safe Zones and Proportionality. [Oral Presentation], Junior Faculty Forum in International Law, National University of Singapore [Details]
    2019 The Internal Protection Alternative.
    Bríd Ní Ghráinne (2019) The Internal Protection Alternative. [Oral Presentation], Oxford Handbook on Refugee Law Workshop, University of Oxford [Details]
    2019 Encampment as a Human Rights Violation.
    Bríd Ní Ghráinne (2019) Encampment as a Human Rights Violation. [Oral Presentation], Future of Europe as a Place of Refuge Conference, Charles University Prague [Details]
    2018 Complementary Protection and Encampment: A Critical Analysis.
    Bríd Ní Ghráinne (2018) Complementary Protection and Encampment: A Critical Analysis. [Oral Presentation], Refugee Law Initiative Third Annual Conference, University of London [Details]
    2018 Challenges in the Relationship between the Protection of Internally Displaced Persons and International Refugee Law.
    Bríd Ní Ghráinne (2018) Challenges in the Relationship between the Protection of Internally Displaced Persons and International Refugee Law. [Oral Presentation], Revitalising the IDP Field: 20 Years of the Guiding Principles on Internal Displacement, University of London [Details]
    2018 Complementary Protection and Encampment: A Critical Analysis.
    Bríd Ní Ghráinne (2018) Complementary Protection and Encampment: A Critical Analysis. [Oral Presentation], 2018, Irish Centre for Human Rights, NUI Galway [Details]
    2018 Safe Zones and International Law.
    Bríd Ní Ghráinne (2018) Safe Zones and International Law. [Oral Presentation], Socio-Legal Studies Association Annual Conference, University of Bristol [Details]
    2018 The Establishment of Safe Zones in International Law.
    Bríd Ní Ghráinne (2018) The Establishment of Safe Zones in International Law. [Oral Presentation], American Society of International Law Research Forum, UCLA, USA [Details]
    2017 Soft Law: Hard Standards? The Guiding Principles of Internal Displacement Come of Age.
    Bríd Ní Ghráinne (2017) Soft Law: Hard Standards? The Guiding Principles of Internal Displacement Come of Age. [Oral Presentation], Environmental Displacement in 2017: Current Protection Challenges, University of Sheffield, UK [Details]
    2017 Ireland, Abortion, and International Law.
    Bríd Ní Ghráinne (2017) Ireland, Abortion, and International Law. [Oral Presentation], Human Rights Day Workshop, University of Sheffield, UK [Details]
    2017 US Refugee Policy and International Law.
    Bríd Ní Ghráinne (2017) US Refugee Policy and International Law. [Invited Lecture], South Yorkshire Refugee Law and Justice AGM, University of Sheffield, UK [Details]
    2017 The Impact of the European Court of Human Rights on Ireland's Abortion Law.
    Bríd Ní Ghráinne (2017) The Impact of the European Court of Human Rights on Ireland's Abortion Law. [Oral Presentation], Legislating from Strasbourg Workshop, CEELI Institute Prague, Czech Republic [Details]
    2017 Internally Displaced Persons: Current Prospects and Future Challenges.
    Bríd Ní Ghráinne (2017) Internally Displaced Persons: Current Prospects and Future Challenges. [Oral Presentation], Czech Centre for Human Rights and Democratization, Masaryk University, Czech Republic [Details]
    2017 Pension Rights of Internally Displaced Persons.
    Bríd Ní Ghráinne (2017) Pension Rights of Internally Displaced Persons. [Invited Lecture], 1st Kharkiv International Legal Forum, Ukraine, Kharkiv, Ukraine [Details]
    2016 Safe Zones and International Law: Lessons from the Past and Implications for Syria?.
    Bríd Ní Ghráinne (2016) Safe Zones and International Law: Lessons from the Past and Implications for Syria?. [Oral Presentation], Erasmus Teaching Exchange, University of Cyprus [Details]
    2016 Ireland, Abortion, and International Law.
    Aisling McMahon; Bríd Ní Ghráinne (2016) Ireland, Abortion, and International Law. [Oral Presentation], American Society of International Law, Mid-Year Meeting,, University of Washington, Seattle , 12-NOV-16 [Details]
    2016 Ireland, Abortion and the European Convention on Human Rights’.
    Aisling McMahon; Bríd Ní Ghráinne (2016) Ireland, Abortion and the European Convention on Human Rights’. [Invited Oral Presentation], Sheffield Law School Research Seminar, Sheffield Law School , 23-NOV-16 [Details]
    2016 Internal Displacement and Refugee Law: A Critical Analysis.
    Bríd Ní Ghráinne (2016) Internal Displacement and Refugee Law: A Critical Analysis. [Oral Presentation], Society of Legal Scholars Annual Conference, University of Oxford [Details]
    2016 Celebrating the Scholarship of Guy S Goodwin-Gill: An International Gathering.
    Bríd Ní Ghráinne (2016) Celebrating the Scholarship of Guy S Goodwin-Gill: An International Gathering. [Oral Presentation], International Law and Migration by the Andaman Sea, University of Oxford [Details]
    2016 Forced Migration at Sea: The Case of South-East Asia.
    Bríd Ní Ghráinne (2016) Forced Migration at Sea: The Case of South-East Asia. [Oral Presentation], Refugee Law Initiative First Annual Conference, University of London [Details]
    2014 The Non-Removal Obligation in International Human Rights Law: A Comparative Study of Regional Jurisprudence.
    Bríd Ní Ghráinne (2014) The Non-Removal Obligation in International Human Rights Law: A Comparative Study of Regional Jurisprudence. [Oral Presentation], Refugee Law Initiative Postgraduate Conference, University of London [Details]
    2015 Collective Responsibility for Migrants at Sea: A Comparison with South-East Asia.
    Bríd Ní Ghráinne (2015) Collective Responsibility for Migrants at Sea: A Comparison with South-East Asia. [Oral Presentation], 18th Irish European Law Forum, University College Dublin [Details]
    2015 My Search for a Lectureship in the United Kingdom.
    Bríd Ní Ghráinne (2015) My Search for a Lectureship in the United Kingdom. [Oral Presentation], Society of Legal Scholars Annual Conference, University of York [Details]
    2015 The European Refugee 'Crisis'.
    Bríd Ní Ghráinne (2015) The European Refugee 'Crisis'. [Oral Presentation], Joint Roundtable on the Mediterranean Refugee Crisis: Views from Europe, Africa, and the Middle East, University of Sheffield, UK and University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA [Details]
    2015 Whose Subjects, and Subject to Whose Laws? Stateless Children and Surrogacy Agreements.
    Bríd Ní Ghráinne; Aisling McMahon (2015) Whose Subjects, and Subject to Whose Laws? Stateless Children and Surrogacy Agreements. [Oral Presentation], Society of Legal Scholars Annual Conference, University of York [Details]
    2013 The UN System of Human Rights Protection.
    Bríd Ní Ghráinne (2013) The UN System of Human Rights Protection. [Invited Lecture], Oxford Summer Courses, University of Oxford [Details]
    2015 Legal Responsibility for Migrants at Sea: A Comparison of Europe and Asia.
    Bríd Ní Ghráinne (2015) Legal Responsibility for Migrants at Sea: A Comparison of Europe and Asia. [Oral Presentation], International Law Seminar Series, Bangor University, Wales [Details]
    2015 The Law of Migration at Sea: A Regional Comparison.
    Bríd Ní Ghráinne (2015) The Law of Migration at Sea: A Regional Comparison. [Oral Presentation], Seventh Graz Workshop on the Future of Security, University of Graz, Austria [Details]
    2015 International Surrogacy Agreements: Statelessness and the Concept of the 'Family' in Transnational Contexts.
    Bríd Ní Ghráinne; Aisling McMahon (2015) International Surrogacy Agreements: Statelessness and the Concept of the 'Family' in Transnational Contexts. [Oral Presentation], Transnational Law and Social Justice, London School of Economics, UK [Details]
    2015 Who can become a party to international treaties? Palestine and the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights.
    Bríd Ní Ghráinne (2015) Who can become a party to international treaties? Palestine and the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights. [Oral Presentation], European Society of International Law Research Forum, European University Institute, Florence, Italy [Details]
    2015 Stateless Children and International Law.
    Bríd Ní Ghráinne; Aisling McMahon (2015) Stateless Children and International Law. [Oral Presentation], American Society of International Law Research Forum, University of Washington, USA [Details]
    2014 Grey Areas in International Law.
    Bríd Ní Ghráinne (2014) Grey Areas in International Law. [Oral Presentation], Thinking Aloud, University of Sheffield, UK [Details]
    2014 IDP Protection as Subsidiary Protection.
    Bríd Ní Ghráinne (2014) IDP Protection as Subsidiary Protection. [Oral Presentation], Young Scholars Forum, McGill University, Montréal, Canada [Details]
    2013 The UNHCR's Involvement with Internally Displaced Persons: 'Protection' for the Purposes of the Refugee Definition?.
    Bríd Ní Ghráinne (2013) The UNHCR's Involvement with Internally Displaced Persons: 'Protection' for the Purposes of the Refugee Definition?. [Oral Presentation], International Association for the Study of Forced Migration, Calcutta, India [Details]
    2013 Deportation to Face Human Rights Violations: Prohibited by International Law?.
    Bríd Ní Ghráinne (2013) Deportation to Face Human Rights Violations: Prohibited by International Law?. [Oral Presentation], Public International Law Discussion Group, University of Oxford [Details]
    2013 The European Convention on Human Rights and Socio-Economic Considerations: Removed from Non-Removal Cases?.
    Bríd Ní Ghráinne (2013) The European Convention on Human Rights and Socio-Economic Considerations: Removed from Non-Removal Cases?. [Oral Presentation], Europaeum Summer School, Pompeu Fabra University, Barcelona, Spain [Details]
    2013 Article 1D of the 1951 Refugee Convention and its Applicability to Internally Displaced Persons.
    Bríd Ní Ghráinne (2013) Article 1D of the 1951 Refugee Convention and its Applicability to Internally Displaced Persons. [Oral Presentation], Public International Law Discussion Group, University of Oxford [Details]

    Blog

      Year Publication
    2017 Ireland’s Violation of International Abortion Rights: A Perpetual Déjà vu.
    Bríd Ní Ghráinne; Aisling McMahon (2017) Ireland’s Violation of International Abortion Rights: A Perpetual Déjà vu. Blog [Details]
    2017 Safe Return Review Policy: Counter–Productive and Morally Indefensible.
    Bríd Ní Ghráinne; Maria Vera Espinoza; Clara Sandelind (2017) Safe Return Review Policy: Counter–Productive and Morally Indefensible. Blog [Details]
    2015 Hungary's Actions: Past the Borderline of International Law.
    Bríd Ní Ghráinne (2015) Hungary's Actions: Past the Borderline of International Law. Blog [Details]
    2014 Implementation of Tripartite Agreement on Hold.
    Bríd Ní Ghráinne (2014) Implementation of Tripartite Agreement on Hold. Blog [Details]

    Book Review

      Year Publication
    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.
    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. Book Review [DOI] [Details]
    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.
    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. Book Review [DOI] [Details]

    Consultancy

      Year Publication
    2020 Inter-State Dialogue on Internal Displacement: Promoting Global Platforms?.
    Ben Hudson; Bríd Ní Ghráinne (2020) Inter-State Dialogue on Internal Displacement: Promoting Global Platforms?. Consultancy [Details]

    Encyclopedia Entry

      Year Publication
    2015 Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs).
    Bríd Ní Ghráinne (2015) Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs). Encyclopedia Entry [DOI] [full-text] [Details]

    Policy Contribution

      Year Publication
    2020 The Syrian Safe Zone and International Law.
    Bríd Ní Ghráinne (2020) The Syrian Safe Zone and International Law. Policy Contribution [Details]
    2020 Covid-19, Border Closures, and International Law.
    Bríd Ní Ghráinne (2020) Covid-19, Border Closures, and International Law. Policy Contribution [full-text] [Details]
    2018 Ireland is Likely to Liberalise Abortion Laws.
    Bríd Ní Ghráinne; Aisling McMahon (2018) Ireland is Likely to Liberalise Abortion Laws. Policy Contribution [Details]
    2017 Syrian Zones may be neither Safe nor Legal'.
    Bríd Ní Ghráinne (2017) Syrian Zones may be neither Safe nor Legal'. Policy Contribution [Details]
    2017 Africa may lead on displacement management.
    Bríd Ní Ghráinne (2017) Africa may lead on displacement management. Oxford: Policy Contribution [Details]

    Honours and Awards

      Year Title Awarding Body
    2017 Outstanding Practice in Learning and Teaching University of Sheffield
    2017 Early-Career Workshop Grant, 'Environmental Displacement in 2017' Migration Research Group, University of Sheffield
    2016 Early Career Workshop Grant, 'Re-Interpreting the Refugee Definition' Migration Research Group, University of Sheffield
    2016 Erasmus+ Teaching Mobility Grant European Union
    2015 Erasmus+ Teaching Mobility Grant European Union
    2015 Runner Up, Best Paper Prize Max Planck Encyclopaedia of Public International Law
    2015 Employability Award University of Sheffield
    2013 Graduate Assistance Scholarship University of Oxford
    2013 Peter Birks Scholarship University of Oxford
    2012 Carr and Stahl Travel Award St Antony's College, University of Oxford
    2012 Graduate Assistance Scholarship University of Oxford
    2011 Freshfields, Bruckhaus, Deringer Scholarship University of Oxford
    2011 Graduate Assistance Scholarship University of Oxford
    2011 Refugee Law Initiative Short Course Scholarship University of London
    2011 Travelling Studentship in Law National University of Ireland
    2005 Entrance Scholarship National University of Ireland Galway
    2005 Gaeltacht Scholarship Department of Education

    Employment

      Employer Position From / To
    Judicial Studies Institute, Masaryk University Senior Researcher 01-SEP-18 /
    Institute of International Relations Prague Senior Researcher 01-OCT-19 /
    University of Sheffield Lecturer 21-JUL-14 / 31-AUG-18
    University of Oxford Tutor and Research Assistant 03-OCT-11 / 02-JUN-14
    Irish Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade Legal Trainee 02-AUG-10 / 29-JUL-11

    Education

      Year Institution Qualification Subject
    2017 University of Sheffield Certificate in Learning and Teaching University Teaching
    2015 University of Oxford DPhil (PhD) Challenges in the Relationship between the Protection of Internally Displaced Persons and Refugee Law
    2011 Law Society of Ireland Diploma in Legal French French Law and Language
    2009 NUI Galway Bachelor of Civil Law (International) Law
    2007 NUI Galway Dioplóma sa Ghaeilge do Lucht an Dlí Gaeilge

    Languages

      Language Reading Writing Speaking
    Irish/Gaeilge Fluent Fluent Fluent
    Czech Basic Basic Basic
    French Functional Functional Functional

    Consultancy

      Client Description
    Council of Europe
    Greenpeace South Asia
    Stabilisation Support Services, Ukraine
    United Nations

    Reviews

      Journal Role
    Irish Yearbook Of International Law Editor-in-Chief

    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.