Dr. Amina Adanan was awarded a New Foundations grant by the Irish Research Council for a project ‘Advancing the Rights of Prisoners in Ireland Through Strategic Litigation’ (AD-PRIS). This project is a collaboration with the Irish Penal Reform Trust and the value of the Award is €11880.
Project details: Notwithstanding the increase in public interest cases to advance the rights of disadvantaged groups in Ireland, prison law remains under litigated in the State. Working with the leading national CSO advocating for penal reform (Irish Penal Reform Trust), and using desk based research supplemented by semi-structured interviews, AD-PRIS has two aims. First, to draft a strategic litigation policy for the advancement of the prisoners’ rights in Ireland, exploring the legal options that exist at a national, European and international level. Second, to develop a network of stakeholders, legal practitioners and academics with the purpose of initiating such cases.
Dr Amina Adanan is a Lecturer/ Assistant Professor in Law in the School of Law and Criminology in Maynooth University where she teaches and researches in the area of human rights law. She publishes in the areas of international justice and Irish property law. Dr. Amina Adanan’s research interests lie in international law, specifically in the area of domestic prosecutions of international crimes, and the history of international law.