Description
About the Author
Christine Bell was born and brought up in Belfast. She is currently Director of the Transitional Justice Institute, and Professor of Public International Law at University of Ulster (based at Magee Campus). She read law at Selwyn College, Cambridge, (1988) and gained an L.L.M. from Law at Harvard Law School (1990), supported by a Harkness Fellowship. She subsequently qualified as an Attorney-at-law in New York, practicing for a period at Debevoise & Plimpton, NY. From 1997-9 she was Director of the Centre for International and Comparative Human Rights Law, Queen's University of Belfast. She has been active in non-governmental organisations, and was chairperson of Belfast-based Human Rights organisation, the Committee on the Administration of Justice from 1995-7, and a founder member of the Northern Ireland Human Rights Commission established under the terms of the Belfast Agreement. She has authored the book Peace Agreements and Human Rights (Oxford University Press 2000).
Reviews
This is an extremely well written book that deserves to be read by all those interested not only in peace agreements but in the development of international law generally. * Aoife O'Donoghue *
This complex and engaged book does not merely put the transitionary character of peace agreements into play, rather, at this border of peace and violence we begin to see the emergence of Law itself...does indeed provide a comprehensive analysis of peace agreements from a legal perspective. It provides an excellent introduction, analysis and engagement with the emerging law and practice of peace agreements...engages with the nature and role of law itself...is well written and thoroughly developed. Its insights are incisive and useful...It will be of use to student, researcher and practitioner alike * Illan rua Wall, Social Science Research Network *
This is no utopian view of peacemakers and their law but rather a call to examine peace agreements in the aggregate and consider the consequences of these phenomena. * Aoife O'Donahue, International Criminal Law Review *
Awards
Winner of WINNER OF THE HART SOCIO-LEGAL BOOK PRIZE 2009.
Book Information
ISBN 9780199226849
Author Christine Bell
Format Paperback
Page Count 416
Imprint Oxford University Press
Publisher Oxford University Press
Weight(grams) 618g
Dimensions(mm) 234mm * 155mm * 22mm