CCJHR Research Seminar
Dr Dug Cubie
- 12 Feb 2016
‘Disaster-induced Displacement: Is There a Need for a Special Category of Protection?’
Dr Dug Cubie, School of Law, U.C.C.
Tuesday Feb 16th 2016, 1-2pm
Venue: Áras na Laoi, Room 1.64 (1st floor, Law School), UCC
Bio
Dr Dug Cubie graduated from the University of Dundee (LLB Hons, 1998) in Scottish and International Law, and the University of Cambridge (LLM International, 2000), before obtaining his PhD analysing the right to humanitarian assistance in natural and human-made disasters and the emerging international legal frameworks for humanitarian action from University College Cork in September 2013. His doctoral research was supported by a Govt of Ireland, IRC PhD scholarship.
Dr Cubie previously lectured at the School of Law, Queen’s University, Belfast, before taking up his appointment at U.C.C. in 2016. Prior to returning to academia, Dug worked for over 10 years in refugee protection and humanitarian assistance, including for the UN High Commissioner for Refugees in the UK, Belgium, Nepal and the Republic of Congo; the Irish Refugee Council, the International Organization for Migration and the Irish Red Cross in Ireland; Amnesty International in Hong Kong; and the Immigrant Services Society of British Columbia in Vancouver. He is co-author, with Dr Fergus Ryan, of Immigration, Refugee and Citizenship Law in Ireland: Cases and Materials (Thomson Round Hall, 2004), and has recently published articles in the Netherlands Quarterly of Human Rights, the Irish Yearbook of International Law, the Journal of International Humanitarian Legal Studies and Human Rights and International Legal Discourse. In addition to interest in the legal frameworks for humanitarian assistance, Dug has undertaken research into the human rights implications of climate change and the concept of “climate refugees”, and the internalisation of international norms in domestic legal systems.
