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Professor Kieran McEvoy
Contact Details
Email address k.mcevoy@qub.ac.uk
Telephone Direct Line (+44) 028 9097 3873
Room 29.107, 29 University Square
Institute of Criminology and Criminal Justice,
School of Law,
Queen's University Belfast, BT7 1NN
Degrees
LLB, Queens University Belfast 1989
MSc Criminology, University of Edinburgh 1991
PhD, Queens University Belfast 2000
Biography
Kieran McEvoy is Professor of Law and Transitional Justice at the School of Law and former Director of the Institute of Criminology and Criminal Justice, Queens University Belfast. Between 1990-1995 he worked as Information Officer for NIACRO, a large non-governmental organisation which campaigns on behalf of prisoners their families and ex-offenders. He was appointed Assistant Director of the Institute of Criminology and Criminal Justice in 1995 (which amalgamated with the Law School in 1998) and was promoted to Reader in 2000 and Professor in 2002. He has been a Visiting Scholar at Fordham University Law School, a Global Scholar at New York University Law School, a visiting scholar at the Institute of Criminology, University of Cambridge and spent a year as a Fulbright Distinguished Scholar at Harvard Law School in 2001-2002. He has also been a visiting scholar for a semester at the Mannheim Centre of Criminology at the London School of Economics and at the School of Law at Berkeley, University of California. For eight years he served as Review Editor of the British Journal of Criminology. He is currently a member of the Editorial Board of Criminology and Criminal Justice, Contemporary Justice Review and Social and Legal Studies. He has led several major comparative grants including most recently a comparative research project (with L. Mallinder and B. Dickson) funded by the AHRC which is examining amnesties as part of conflict transformation in Argentina, Uruguay, Bosnia, South Africa and Uganda. Prior to that, (with Harry Mika and Kirsten McConnachie), he also conducted comparative research in Canada, the USA, Israel\Palestine, Spain, Italy, Colombia, Rwanda, Indonesia as well as Ireland and Britain funded by Atlantic Philanthropies. In 2002, his book Paramilitary Imprisonment in Northern Ireland was awarded the British Society of Criminology book of the year award for the best first sole authored book published in the discipline in the previous year. His article (with H. Conway) “The Dead, the Law and the Politics of the Past” was also joint winner Socio-legal Studies Association article of year prize in 2005. Another article, “Beyond Legalism : Towards a Thicker Understanding of Transitional Justice” won the same award in 2009. As an activist, he is a former Chairperson and long term committee member of CAJ (the Committee on the Administration of Justice), the principal human rights NGO in Northern Ireland. He is also a member of the Executive Committee of NIACRO and was heavily involved in the establishment of community based restorative justice projects in Nationalist areas in Northern Ireland. He is also an active member of the local NGO Healing Through Remembering and authored their 2006 report on options for truth recovery for Northern Ireland. In 2012 his book The Trouble with Truth : Transition, Reconciliation and Struggling with the Past in Northern Ireland will be published by Routledge.
Teaching
Undergraduate
• International Criminal Justice
• Reshaping the NI Constitution
Postgraduate
• Restorative Justice
• Transitional Justice and Conflict Transformation
Research
His current research interests include amnesties, apologies, ex-combatants, the politics of victimhood, lawyers in transition, truth recovery and other aspects of transitional justice.
Selected Publications
"What Did the Lawyers Do During the 'War' ? Neutrality, Conflict and the Culture of Quietism" Modern Law Review (2011) 74 (3), pp. 350-384.
“Rethinking Amnesties: Atrocity, Accountability And Impunity In Post-Conflict Societies." (2011) Contemporary Social Science 6, 7, 107-128. (with L Mallinder)
Reimagining DDR: Ex-combatants, leadership and Moral Agency in Conflict Transformation.” (2009) Theoretical Criminology, 13,1 31-59 (with P. Shirlow)
“Beyond Legalism : Towards a Thicker Understanding of Transitional Justice.” (2007) Journal of Law and Society, 34,4, 411-440.
Beyond the Wire : Ex-prisoners and Conflict Transformation in Northern Ireland (2008) (with P. Shirlow). Pluto. 185 pp.
Transitional Justice from Below : Grassroots Activism and the Struggle for Change (2008) (ed with L. McGregor) Hart. 254pp.
Judges, Transition and Human Rights (2007) (ed with J. Morison and G. Anthony) Oxford University Press. 567pp.
Criminology, Conflict Resolution and Restorative Justice (2003) (ed with Tim Newburn) Palgrave. 228pp.
Paramilitary Imprisonment in Northern Ireland : Resistance, Management and Release (2001) Oxford University Press. 445pp.
