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    • Architecture of exclusion: the struggle for land and legitimacy of Palestinians under Israeli law 

      Abu Hussein, Hadeel (2016-10)
      This research focuses on land law and provides an overview of the right to land under international law, followed by a background of the Israeli/Palestinian conflict. Subsequently, exploring the underpinning of the land ...
    • Detention without trial in the United Kingdom: From empire to the 'War on Terror' 

      Duffy, Aoife (2014-05-16)
      This thesis analyses detention without trial in the United Kingdom by applying a socio-legal lens to several instances where these extra-judicial powers have been adopted. What will emerge from this examination is twofold. ...
    • Empire, emergency & the law 

      Reynolds, John (2014-05-27)
      This thesis interrogates the nature of emergency legal doctrine -- from the institutional and constitutional planes of international relations, national security and political economy, down to more mundane planes of daily ...
    • Golden cages: refugees, camps and the politics of law 

      Bushnell, Alexis (2015-12-09)
      This thesis explores the interplay between the refugee as a figure and the refugee camp as a space, and interrogates how this interplay has informed international refugee law as well as examining the gaps in international ...
    • Habeas Corpus in international law 

      Farrell, Brian (2014-05-04)
      This thesis seeks to determine its location, scope, application, and significance of the right to habeas corpus in international law. It examines the history of the right, looks the guarantees contained in international ...
    • On the Principle of Universal Jurisdiction in International Law 

      O'Sullivan, Aisling (2013-08-30)
      The debate which envelopes the principle of universal jurisdiction draws out a "dark side" of the international criminal law project because the commitment by the international community to individual criminal accountability ...
    • On Torture 

      Farrell, Michelle (2011-04-26)
      This thesis argues that the ticking bomb scenario is a fiction and it accordingly asks, "if it is a fiction, how does it exercise the power of a black hole in modern memory? How does it bend all argument to its narrative, ...
    • Towards an understanding of Catholicism and human rights 

      Taylor, Leonard Francis (2017-02-23)
      The paradoxical arrival of a Christian and Catholic rights based tradition in the early 20th century problemitises histories of international law and human rights. An historical presentation of the emergence of international ...
    • When the 'minority' speaks: voices of Amazigh women in Morocco 

      Gagliardi, Silvia (NUI Galway, 2018-07-18)
      Applying an intersectional approach, this thesis examines the value and meaning that minority and indigenous (Amazigh) women in Morocco attribute to human rights and gender equality and, as well, how rights-based claims ...