Dr Sabina Garahan
-
Email
sgarah@essex.ac.uk -
Location
5S.6.31, Colchester Campus
Profile
Biography
Dr Sabina Garahan is a Lecturer (Assistant Professor) in Criminal Law at Essex Law School and Co-Director of the Arbitrary Detention Redress Unit, which works on cases of alleged arbitrary detention brought before the UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention. Her research primarily concerns the rights of detained persons under international law. She completed her AHRC-funded doctoral research at the Essex Human Rights Centre, focusing on protections against arbitrary detention under European human rights law. Sabina consults regularly on international human rights law and policy in an expert capacity and is a member of the Fair Trials Legal Experts Advisory Panel. Sabina previously worked as a Judicial Assistant to former President Robert Spano at the European Court of Human Rights and as a Research Assistant at the British Institute of International and Comparative Law. She is a former Editorial Board member at the Oxford Journal of Law and Religion. Sabina has provided expert advice and opinion on a range of human rights and rule of law matters to organisations including the OSCE/ODIHR, Penal Reform International and the Equal Rights Trust. Her expertise covers the death penalty, fair trial rights, and racial discrimination in justice systems, as well as prisoners’ rights and equality and non-discrimination frameworks. As an expert consultant, Sabina has delivered legal and policy reform recommendations on human rights and equality standards to key stakeholders including representatives of governments, judiciaries and civil society. She has also volunteered for organisations including Reprieve and the Free Representation Unit, and is a former member of the Death Penalty Sentencing Mitigation Unit. Sabina holds an LLB in Law with French Law from University College London, graduating with a faculty prize, and a Certificat Supérieur de Droit Français et Européen from Panthéon-Assas University, Paris. She completed her LLM in International Human Rights Law at the Essex Human Rights Centre with Distinction, funded by a County of Essex Scholarship. She is a previous recipient of the iCourts/PluriCourts High-Level PhD Summer School Scholarship.
Qualifications
-
PhD Law University of Essex, (2023)
-
LLM International Human Rights Law University of Essex, (2016)
-
LLB Law with French Law University College London, (2014)
-
Certificat Supérieur de Droit Français et Européen Panthéon-Assas University, (2013)
Appointments
University of Essex
-
Co-Director, Arbitrary Detention Redress Unit (4/9/2023 - present)
-
Year 1 Student Support and Progress Lead, Essex Law School (4/9/2023 - present)
Other academic
-
Lecturer, University of Essex (23/1/2023 - present)
-
Assistant Lecturer, University of Essex (8/10/2018 - present)
-
Associate Fellow, Higher Education Academy (4/9/2019 - present)
Research and professional activities
Research interests
International Human Rights Law
European Human Rights Law
Prisoner Rights
International Humanitarian Law
Criminal Justice
Teaching and supervision
Current teaching responsibilities
-
Criminal Law (LW104)
-
Medical Law (LW232)
-
Law of Evidence (LW316)
Publications
Journal articles (8)
Garahan, S., (2024). Opening the door to arbitrary detention - uncontrolled detention powers under the Illegal Migration Act. Public Law. 2024 (Jan), 11-18
Turkut, E. and Garahan, S., (2020). The ‘Reasonable Suspicion’ Test of Turkey’s Post-Coup Emergency Rule under the European Convention on Human Rights. Netherlands Quarterly of Human Rights. 38 (4), 264-282
(2018). Ratzenböck and Seydl v Austria. Oxford Journal of Law and Religion. 7 (2), 362-363
(2018). Mme Asma X and another v Micropole univers. Oxford Journal of Law and Religion. 7 (2), 356-357
(2018). Hamidović v Bosnia and Herzegovina. Oxford Journal of Law and Religion. 7 (2), 355-356
Garahan, S., (2017). Association de défense des droits de l'homme – Collectif contre l'islamophobie en France. Oxford Journal of Law and Religion. 6 (1), 204-204
Garahan, S., (2016). A Right to Discriminate? Widening the Scope for Interference with Religious Rights inEbrahimian v France. Oxford Journal of Law and Religion. 5 (2), 352-358
Garahan, S., (2016). FG v Sweden. Oxford Journal of Law and Religion. 5 (3), 619-620
Book chapters (2)
Garahan, S., (2020). Legal Aid: Promoting Sustainable Development Through Greater Access to Justice. In: Encyclopedia of the UN Sustainable Development Goals. Editors: . Springer International Publishing. 1- 12. 9783319710662
Garahan, S., (2020). Unsentenced Detainees: Socioeconomic Burdens of Pre-trial Detention. In: Encyclopedia of the UN Sustainable Development Goals. Editors: . Springer International Publishing. 1- 11. 9783319710662
Conferences (9)
Garahan, S., OSCE/ODIHR - Gender, Diversity and Justice in South Eastern Europe (2020)
Garahan, S., European Society of International Law - Public Health in the Age of Globalisation: Questioning the Constraints of State Sovereignty, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (2019)
Garahan, S., British Institute of International and Comparative Law - Enhancing Access to Justice: What Can Ombudsman Schemes Offer? (2018)
Garahan, S., OSCE and Supreme Court of the Republic of Kazakhstan - Women Judges: Professional Exchange of Experience and International Co-operation, Astana, Kazakhstan (2024)
Garahan, S., Academy for European Human Rights Protection, University of Cologne - Writing and Publishing in the Law of the ECHR (2024)
Garahan, S., Socio-Legal Studies Association - Prisoner Rights - Time for a Rethink, University of Liverpool (2023)
Garahan, S., OSCE/ODIHR, UNODC and OHCHR - Eighth Expert Forum on Criminal Justice for Central Asia, Tashkent, Uzbekistan (2021)
Garahan, S., OSCE/ODIHR - High-Level Webinar on the Independence of Prosecutors in Central Europe (2021)
Garahan, S., OSCE/ODIHR - Associations of Women Judges in Central Asia: Gender, Diversity and Justice (2021)
Reports and Papers (3)
Gillett, M. and Garahan, S., (2023). Written Evidence by Dr Sabina Garahan and Dr Matthew Gillett (IMB0015) on UK Illegal Migration Bill
Garahan, S., (2021). Comparative Study on Women Judges’ Associations Across the OSCE Region
Beqiraj, J., Garahan, S. and Shuttleworth, K., (2018). Ombudsman Schemes and Effective Access to Justice: A Study of International Practices and Trends
Thesis dissertation (1)
Garahan, S., (2022). Adjudicating the Right to Liberty: the Use and Appropriateness of Discretion at the European Court of Human Rights
Other (4)
Garahan, S., Hamidović v Bosnia and Herzegovina – Judging Skullcaps in the Courtroom,Open University, Project for Interdisciplinary Law and Religion Studies (PILARS)
Garahan, S., (2021).False Equivalences in the Nagorno-Karabakh Conflict – International Humanitarian and Criminal Law Perspectives,OpinioJuris
Garahan, S., (2019).Emerging Voices: Reasonableness at the European Court of Human Rights,Opinio Juris
Garahan, S. and Olatokun, M., (2018).Human Rights Education - What is it and Why is it Important?,The British Institute of Human Rights
Grants and funding
2023
Human Rights Fact-finding: determining the misuse of arbitrary detention against migrants and environmental defenders
University of Essex (QR Impact Fund)