Louise Mallinder

Dr Louise Mallinder is a lecturer in human rights and international law at the Transitional Justice Institute of the University of Ulster. She received a BA (2001), LLM in Human Rights Law (2003) and a PhD (2006) from Queen's University Belfast. She is the author of Amnesty, Human Rights and Political Transitions: Bridging the Peace and Justice Divide (Hart Publishing, 2008) and this monograph was awarded the 2009 Hart SLSA Early Career Award and was jointly awarded the 2009 British Society of Criminology Book Prize.

Previously, Dr Mallinder worked at Queen's University Belfast as a research fellow, with Prof Kieran McEvoy and Prof Brice Dickson, on a two-year AHRC-funded research project. This project, which drew on her doctoral research on amnesty laws, is entitled Beyond Legalism: Amnesties, Transition and Conflict Transformation. It is an interdisciplinary, comparative study of the impact of amnesty laws within Argentina, Bosnia-Herzegovina, South Africa, Uganda and Uruguay, and the project team conducted fieldwork in these jurisdictions. In addition to her academic research, Dr Mallinder has worked as a consultant for the German Development Agency and for the Fighting Impunity and Promoting International Justice project led by Prof M. Cherif Bassiouni, and has participated in numerous international expert meetings and conferences.