HRC Speaker Series: Dr Daragh Murray, Professor Françoise Hampson and Professor Noam Lubell

Dr Daragh Murray is a lecturer at the Human Rights Centre & School of Law at the University of Essex. His research focuses on issues relating to the law of armed conflict, international human rights law, and non-State actors. He has recently published a manuscript with Hart publishing, examining the ‘Human Rights Obligations of Non-State Armed Groups’ and ‘Practitioner’s Guide to Human Rights Law in Armed Conflict’.

Professor Françoise Hampson taught at the Human Rights Centre and Essex Law School from 1983-2011. She was the UK nominated member of the UN Sub-Commission on the Promotion and Protection of Human Rights from 1998-2007. She was also one of the applicants’ lawyers in the notorious Bankovic case. More recently, with her colleague Professor Noam Lubell, she has submitted third party interventions to the Court on the relationship between the law of armed conflict and human rights law. Most recently, she has been a member of the UN Commission of Inquiry on Burundi.

Noam Lubell is a Professor in the School of Law, University of Essex, and was Head of the School from January 2014 until January 2017. He holds a Ph.D in Law and an LL.M, as well as a B.A. in Philosophy. During the last twenty years he has taught courses on international human rights law and the laws of armed conflict in a number of academic institutions, as well as working for human rights organisations. Prof. Lubell holds the Swiss Chair of International Humanitarian Law at the Geneva Academy of International Humanitarian Law and Human Rights, and is the Rapporteur of the International Law Association's Committee on the Use of Force.

The talk will be followed by an informal reception in the law school common room.

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