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Ms Lorna McGregor LLB (Hons) (Edinburgh), LLM (Harvard)

Position in department	Director, Human Rights Centre
Staff position	Senior Lecturer
E-mail	lmcgreg (non Essex users should add @essex.ac.uk)
Telephone	3871 (non Essex users should add 01206-87 to the beginning of this number)
Fax	3428
Room	5S.6.16
Office hours	During term-time, Wednesdays, 1 - 3pm. Otherwise, by appointment.
Biography	Lorna McGregor joined the School of Law in October 2010. She is a Senior Lecturer, Director of the Human Rights Centre and a previous director of the LLM in International Human Rights Law. Her current research is focused on the legitimacy, legality and treatment in detention under international law; trafficking in human beings; the right and systems of access to justice under international law, including transitional justice; human rights in Europe; and equality and non-discrimination. Her work has appeared in journals such as the American Journal of International Law, the European Journal of International Law, the International and Comparative Law Quarterly, the Journal of International Criminal Justice and the International Journal of Transitional Justice. In addition to her academic research, Lorna is a Co-Chair of the American Society of International Law’s Interest Group on Transitional Justice, a member of REDRESS’ Legal Advisory Council and a trustee of the AIRE Centre. Examples of recent practice include advising the Equalities and Human Rights Commission on its Human Rights Review together with Professor Maurice Sunkin and acting as an independent expert at the UN Intergovernmental Expert Meeting on the review of the Standard Minimum Rules for the Treatment of Prisoners in Argentina in December 2012. Prior to joining the Law School, Lorna was the International Legal Adviser at REDRESS where she litigated cases on behalf of torture survivors before the UN treaty bodies and regional human rights commissions; acted as amicus curiae before national and regional courts; and carried out research, law reform and capacity building activities on torture and reparation at the national regional and international level. She has previously held positions as a Programme Lawyer at the International Bar Association, the State Immunity Project Coordinator at REDRESS and in Sri Lanka at the International Centre for Ethnic Studies. Lorna holds an LL.B (first class honours) from Edinburgh Law School and an LL.M. from Harvard Law School, where she was a Kennedy Memorial Trust Scholar and Henigson Fellow. She is admitted as an attorney in New York State. Lorna welcomes PhD applications and consultancy requests in her areas of research interest.
Research interests	Access to Justice under International Law The legitimacy, legality and treatment in all forms of detention under international law International Human Rights Law (particularly the prohibitions of torture, enforced disappearance and trafficking in human beings) Human Rights in Europe Transitional justice Equality and non-discrimination.
Teaching responsibilities	LW929, Detention under International Law LW911, European Convention on Human Rights LW805, International Criminal Law for Humanitarian Situations LW901, International Human Rights: Law, Institutions and Practice
Publications	Selected Publications *Books:* K. McEvoy and L. McGregor (eds.), Transitional Justice from Below: Grassroots Activism and the Struggle for Change (Hart Publishing, 2008) Selected Journal Articles ‘Applying the Definition of Torture to the Acts of Non-State Actors: the Case of Trafficking in Human Beings’ forthcoming in Human Rights Quarterly ‘Transitional Justice and the Prevention of Torture’ 7 International Journal of Transitional Justice 29 - 51 (2013) ‘State Immunity and Human Rights: Is there a Future after Germany v. Italy?’ 11 Journal of International Criminal Justice 125 - 145 (2013) ‘The Role of Supranational Human Rights Litigation in Strengthening Remedies for Torture Nationally’ 16(5) International Journal of Human Rights 737 – 756 (2012) ‘Torture and State Immunity: Deflecting Impunity, Distorting Sovereignty’, 18 European Journal of International Law 903 – 919 (2007) ‘State Immunity and Jus Cogens’, 55(2) International and Comparative Law Quarterly 437 – 445 (2006) ‘Beyond the Time and Space of Peace Talks: Re-Appropriating the Peace Process in Sri Lanka’, 11(1) International Journal of Peace Studies 39 - 57 (2006) ‘Reconciliation: I Know It When I See It’, 9(2) Contemporary Justice Review 155 – 174 (2006) ‘Individual Accountability in South Africa: Cultural Optimum or Political Façade?’, 95(1) American Journal of International Law 32 – 45 (2001) Edited Book Contributions Include: ‘Legal Routes to Restoring Individual Rights at Guantanamo Bay: The Effectiveness of Habeas Corpus Applications and Efforts to Obtain Diplomatic Protection’ in A. Edwards and C. Ferstman (eds.), Human Security and Non-Citizens: Law, Policy and International Affairs (Cambridge University Press, 2010). ‘International Law as a Tiered Process: A Framework for Responses to the Experience of Conflict at the Local, National and International Level’ in K. McEvoy and L. McGregor (eds.), Transitional Justice from Below: Grassroots Activism and the Struggle for Change (Hart Publishing, 2008) 47 – 73 ‘Transitional Justice from Below: An Agenda for Research, Policy and Praxis’ (with K. McEvoy, first author) in K. McEvoy and L. McGregor (eds.), Transitional Justice from Below: Grassroots Activism and the Struggle for Change (Hart Publishing, 2008) 1 - 13 ‘Reconciliation: Where is the Law?’ in S. Veitch (ed.), Law and the Politics of Reconciliation (Ashgate, 2007) 111 - 128

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