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School of Law

Amy Maguire

Position: Associate Lecturer School/Unit: Law Telephone: +61-2-492-15510 Room: MC163 (Callaghan) E-mail: amy.maguire@newcastle.edu.au

BA, LLB(Hons)

Other details

• Currently working on PhD thesis exploring the right of self-determination under international law
• Previously a researcher on the Economic and Social Research Council-funded study 'Re-Imagining Women's Security in Societies in Transition', based at Queen's University Belfast
• Convenor of an international Collaborative Research Network on collective human rights: join at http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=4960474619
• Researcher on a current empirical study of Indigenous Land Use Agreements

Research interests

• Human rights law in international and domestic contexts
• Public international law
• Indigenous rights and legal issues
• Collective human rights
• Rights of women
• Socio-legal studies

Professional associations

• Australian and New Zealand Society of International Law
• Australian Lawyers for Human Rights
• Law and Society Association of Australia and New Zealand
• Socio-Legal Studies Association

Publications

Journal articles

Amy Maguire, 'Law Protecting Rights: Restoring the Law of Self-Determination in the Neo-Colonial World' (2007) Law Text Culture (forthcoming).

Brandon Hamber, Paddy Hillyard, Amy Maguire, Monica McWilliams, David Russell and Margaret Ward, 'Discourses in Transition: Re-Imagining Women's Security' (2006) 20(4) International Relations 487-502.

Recent Publications

26-28 June 2008 - 'Security, Scarcity, Struggle: The Dilemmas of International Law', The Sixteenth Annual ANZSIL Conference, National Museum of Australia, Canberra.

Paper title: 'Self-Determination and the Promise of Justice in International Law'

Book chapters

Amy Maguire, ''Security Starts with the Law': The Role of International Law in the Protection of Women's Security Post-conflict' in Brett Bowden, Hilary Charlesworth and Jeremy Farrall (Eds.), Great Expectations: The Role of International Law in Restructuring Societies after Conflict, Cambridge University Press (forthcoming).

Book review

Amy Maguire, Book Review - 'Murdering Myths: The Story Behind the Death Penalty' (2006) 46(3) British Journal of Criminology 532-534.

Recent conference papers

9-10 August 2007 - From Empire to Empowerment? Workshop on the Role of International Law in Building Justice and Democracy after Conflict, Centre for International Governance and Justice, Australian National University, Canberra, Australia.
Paper title: 'The Role of International Law in the Protection of Women's Security'

25-28 July 2007 - International Law and Society Meeting, Humboldt University, Berlin, Germany.
Paper titles:

• 'A New Law of Self-Determination for the Twenty-First Century'
• 'Women's Security Through the Lens of Collective Human Rights: A case study of policing in Northern Ireland'