People

Director

Research/ Teaching:

Access to Justice, Housing Rights, Minority and Indigenous Rights, Traveller Rights, Clinical Legal Education, Social-Justice Informed Education, Courtroom Ethnography and International Human Rights Law.

Tel. +353 21 490 2699. E-mail samantha.williams@ucc.ie

Deputy Director

Dr Luke Noonan

Research/Teaching:

Criminal Law, Criminal Defences, Mental Health, Evidence, Human Rights

Tel. +353 21 490 2223. E-mail luke.noonan@ucc.ie

Executive Board of the CCJHR:

As an interdisciplinary centre, the CCJHR is proud to have members drawn from across UCC, including from the School of Law, Department of Philosophy and Department of Sociology & Criminology.

School of Law:
Professor Ursula Kilkelly Research/ Teaching: Children's rights, including education, family and justice issues, juvenile justice, moot court, international trade law. Tel. +353 21 490 3642. E-mail u.kilkelly@ucc.ie
Professor Caroline Fennell Research/ Teaching: Law of Evidence, Criminal Justice, Terrorism and Organised Crime. Tel. +353 21 490 2547. E-mail c.fennell@ucc.ie
Dr Catherine O'Sullivan Research/ Teaching: Criminal Law, Criminology, Gender and the Law, Feminist Legal Theory. Tel. +353 21 490 3285. E-mail catherine.osullivan@ucc.ie
Dr Claire Murray (On sabbatical 2025) Research/Teaching: Maternal and Reproductive rights, Mental Health and Capacity Law. Tel. +353 21 490 3809. E-mail c.murray@ucc.ie
Ms Dorothy Appelbe Research/Teaching: Criminal Justice, Criminal Process & Procedure, Clinical Legal Education. Tel. +353-21-490 3203. E-mail d.appelbe@ucc.ie
Dr Darius Whelan Research/ Teaching: Mental Health Law, Internet Regulation, Employment and Labour Law. Tel. +353 21 490 3452. E-mail d.whelan@ucc.ie
Dr Aisling Parkes Research/ Teaching: International Children's Rights, Child law, Rights of Children with Parents in Prison, Sports law, Mediation and ADR, Adoption law and practice, Rights of Children in Family Law Proceedings, Voice of the Child and Child Participation. Tel. +353 21 420 5167. E-mail a.parkes@ucc.ie
Dr Fiona Donson Research/ Teaching: Administrative Justice, Criminal Justice, Access to Justice, Penology, Traveller Rights. Tel. +353 21 490 3159. E-mail f.donson@ucc.ie
Dr Nessa Lynch (Matheson Lecturer in Law, Innovation and Technology) Research/ Teaching: Law and emerging technology, artificial intelligence and human rights, policing, surveillance, youth justice. Tel. +353 21 490 2000. E-mail nessa.lynch@ucc.ie
Dr Dug Cubie Research/ Teaching: Disaster Law, International Humanitarian Law, Immigration and Refugee Law, International Human Rights Law Tel. +353 21 490 2223. E-mail d.cubie@ucc.ie
Professor Conor O'Mahony Research/ Teaching: Constitutional Law, Child Rights Tel. +353 21 490 3041. E-mail conor.omahony@ucc.ie
Dr Elena Kavanagh Research/ Teaching: Indigenous Peoples' Rights, Language Rights, International Human Rights Law, Climate Law and Policy, Polar Law, Global Governance. Tel. +353 21 490 2699. E-mail elena.kavanagh@ucc.ie
Professor Femi Amao Research/ Teaching: Company Law, Sustainability, Business & Human Rights, Law and Regulation. Tel. +353 21 490 2220. E-mail FAmao@ucc.ie
Dr Henrietta Zeffert Research/ Teaching: Human Rights, Housing Rights, International law, Socio-economics Rights and Substantive Equality (Home and Housing). Tel. +353 21 490 2220. E-mail henrietta.zeffert@ucc.ie
María D’jalma Torres Sánchez (Research Associate) Research/Teaching: Indigenous Peoples' Rights, Intercultural Education, Decoloniality, International Human Rights Law. Tel. +353 21 490 2699. E-mail maria.torres@pucp.pe
Áine Bernadette Mannion (Postgraduate Representative) PhD Title: 'An Evidence Base for the Number of Children in Detention: The Role of Garda Diversion and Judicial Decision-Making' Research/ Teaching Interests: Criminal Justice, Children's Rights, Research Methods, Child Detention, Serious and Sexual Offending Email: aine.mannion@ucc.ie

Department of Philosophy:

Dr Vittorio Bufacchi

Senior Lecturer, Department of Philosophy, UCC
T: +353-21-490-3000 F: +353 21 490 2567 E: VBufacchi@philosophy.ucc.ie

Department of Criminology:

Dr Katharina Swirak

Deputy Head of Criminology, Department of Sociology, UCC

T: +353-21-490-2318 E: k.swirak@ucc.ie

Professor Maggie O'Neill

Professor in Sociology & Criminology at University College Cork and Director of ISS21, Institute for Social Science in the 21st Century and UCC Futures: Collective Social Futures

T: +353-21-490-2894 E: maggie.oneill@ucc.ie

Dr Orla Lynch

Criminology, Department of Sociology, UCC

T: +353-21-490-2318 E: orla.lynch@ucc.ie

Associate Members
Professor Mary Donnelly Research/ Teaching: Medical Law and Ethics, Capacity Law, Consumer Protections. Tel. +353 21 490 2857. E-mail m.donnelly@ucc.ie
Professor Deirdre Madden Research/ Teaching: Medical Law, Ethics Tel. +353 21 490 2990. E-mail deirdre.madden@ucc.ie

The CCJHR also welcomes visiting researchers for research visits within the fields of staff expertise listed above and within criminal justice and human rights more broadly.

Please contact CCJHR Director, Dr Samantha Morgan-Williams if you are interested in visiting the CCJHR as a visiting scholar: samantha.williams@ucc.ie

Centre for Criminal Justice and Human Rights

School of Law, University College Cork, Ireland