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Prof Kieran McEvoy and Dr Kevin Hearty explore the relationship between policing and transitional justice. Drawing on the Northern Ireland case study and international examples, they analyse the compromises, challenges and complexities of policing in transition.

To learn more about Dr Hearty’s research into policing, please see his 2017 Critical Criminology article on ‘Discourses of political policing in post-Patten Northern Ireland’ and his 2016 Irish Political Studies article on ‘How the ‘suspect community’ became ‘critical engagers.’’

Dr Hearty discusses a recent article by Brianne McGonigle Leyh. You can access it here.

In this episode, Prof Kieran McEvoy and Dr Cheryl Lawther discuss official and grassroots approaches to truth recovery in Northern Ireland.

Transitional Justice Series 2 - In this episode, Prof Kieran McEvoy and Dr Cheryl Lawther discuss official and grassroots approaches to truth recovery in Northern Ireland, the politics of – and challenges facing – efforts to recover truth in this context, and the current status of efforts to ‘deal with’ the legacy of the Northern Ireland conflict.

For a slightly different take on the themes discussed, you can read Cheryl Lawther’s article in the International Review of Victimology on ‘Haunting and Transitional Justice’.

In this LawPod episode, Cheryl references a BBC Red Lines interview with Northern Ireland’s Lord Chief Justice, Sir Declan Morgan. You can access that here.

Dr Mark Hanna talks about Women of Colour and Human Rights with Dean Adrien Wing and Professor Anna Spain Bradley.

Dean Adrien Wing is Associate Dean for International and Comparative Law Programs and the Bessie Dutton Murray Professor at the University of Iowa College of Law, and Professor Anna Spain Bradley is Vice chancellor for equity, diversity and inclusion at UCLA. The distinguished guests discuss Critical Race Theory and Global Critical Race Feminism, and the insights of those approaches into the distinctive voice that women of colour have in the development of human rights at both the national and global level.

Anna Spain Bradley

SSRN: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/cf_dev/AbsByAuth.cfm?per_id=1339908

Twitter: @ASpainBradley https://lawweb.colorado.edu/profiles/pubpdfs/spain/AfricanWomenLeaders.pdf https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3423611 http://opiniojuris.org/2019/09/04/international-laws-racism-problem/

https://law.uiowa.edu/adrien-wing

Transitional Justice Series 1 - In this episode Dr Rachel Killean tells us about her recent article, ‘From ecocide to eco-sensitivity: ‘greening’ reparations at the International Criminal Court,’ published in The International Journal of Human Rights in 2020.

Rachel examines the challenges of responding to conflict-related environment harm, explores the concept of ‘eco-sensitivity,’ and discusses what it might look like to see reparations through an ‘eco-sensitive’ lens.

You can read Rachel’s full article here: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/13642987.2020.1783531?casa_token=HbRIJGMMjhYAAAAA%3AQ1f5Mg9tez88Yy-xzKKjqbN605ZCs7rhPFN6j0vViAl0f5kFaH3mHkk88EoshCy5XEouBhCunnDoCA

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Oluwayomi Olaide-Kolapo (QUB’s African and Caribbean Society) and Hamsavani Rajeswaren (former QUB Student Union Officer for Equality and Diversity) discuss the particular challenges of facing up to white supremacy in higher education institutions.

In this episode we welcome Oluwayomi Olaide-Kolapo (the President of QUB’s African and Caribbean Society) and Hamsavani Rajeswaren (former QUB Student Union Officer for Equality and Diversity) to LawPod, to discuss the particular challenges of facing up to white supremacy in higher education institutions. We discuss their advocacy work at QUB, the impact of the Black Lives Matter movement, the promises and pitfalls of ‘decolonising the curriculum’ movements, and much more in this thought-provoking episode.

Further resources mentioned in the episode:

Abolitionist Futures Reading Group: abolitionistfutures.com/reading-groups

13th: Netflix.com

Black and Irish:  /www.instagram.com/black_andirish/?hl=en

Black and British: www.instagram.com/iamblackbritish/

In this episode Dr Lauren Dempster interviews Prof. Robin Hickey and Dr Rachel Killean about their project ‘Restoring Cultural Property and Communities after Conflict’.

They discuss the experience of the Cham Islamic minority in Cambodia, reflecting on their loss of cultural property during the Khmer Rouge regime, and exploring their process of recovery following the end of that regime. More information about the project can be found here: https://reparations.qub.ac.uk/cultural-property/

Host Anoushka Syed is joined by Kaitlyn Laverty (Youth Strike 4 Climate Belfast) and Paul Brogan (Extinction Rebellion Northern Ireland) to talk about being modern activists, how eco-anxiety can be channelled into constructive efforts, and how media representations are largely missing the point.

Youth Strike 4 Climate Belfast

https://www.facebook.com/ys4cbelfast/

https://fridaysforfuture.org/

https://twitter.com/UKSCN1

https://twitter.com/strike4youth

Extinction Rebellion Northern Ireland

https://www.facebook.com/ExinctionRebellionNorthernIreland/

https://twitter.com/xr__ni

https://twitter.com/ExtinctionR

https://rebellion.earth/

https://www.ipcc.ch/

https://report.ipcc.ch/sr15/pdf/sr15_spm_final.pdf

Host: Anoushka Syed

Sound: Niamh Brogan

Research: Wen Xiang Li, Anoushka Syed, Niamh Brogan

Thank you so much to Kaitlyn and Paul for an insightful, passionate and informative discussion.

Lawpod Director Rachel Killean talks to PhD candidate Siofra Corr about her research which is focused on reparations processes for sexual violence victims of mass conflicts.

They explore the contextualites of Siofra's chosen topic and her experience of studying at the Law School, touching on how she has managed with the impact that the Covid-19 pandemic has had on her studies.

Siofra obtained her undergraduate degree in law at QUB in 2017 during which she developed an interest in transitional justice and reparations (especially for victims of sexual violence during times of conflict). She pursued this interest during her Master’s degree in Public International Law at Utrecht University, graduating in 2018.

Dr Mark Hanna and Professor Hans Lindahl, Chair of Legal Philosophy at Tilburg University in a wide ranging conversation about law, philosophy, boundaries and social movements.

Dr Mark Hanna in discussion with Professor Hans Lindahl, Chair of Legal Philosophy at Tilburg University and Chair of Global Law at Queen Mary University of London. Professor Lindahl discusses a range of issues, including the importance of boundaries to legal orders and their relevance to Brexit and Northern Ireland, as well as the importance of social movements from the aboriginal Tent Embassy in Australia in the 1970s to the more recent phenomenon of Greta Thunberg and the school strike for climate.Professor

Lindahl has published Fault Lines of Globalization: Legal Order and the Politics of A-Legality with Oxford University Press in 2013, and Authority and the Globalisation of Inclusion and Exclusion with Cambridge University Press in 2018.

His research is focused on globalization processes, such as the concept of legal order in a global setting; the relation of boundaries to freedom, justice, and security; a politics of boundary-setting alternative to both cosmopolitanism and communitarianism; transformations of legal authority and political representation; immigration and global justice; collective identity and difference in the process of European integration.

Lawpod Director Rachel Killean talks to PhD candidate Iain Nash about his research which is focused on examining how nation-states regulate cybersecurity with a particular focus on consumer protection and Smart Devices.

He is particularly interested in how we can legislate for 'post-data' cybersecurity, as we now live in an environment where our connected devices can have a physical impact on our lives, and whether we can apply a Cadbury code style of governance to technology markets.Iain is a late-stage PhD student; His undergrad ('08) and MA ('10) were in Economics (TCD and Warwick) and he then did an LLM in QUB back in 2010. He has worked in banking and tech companies over the past decade, although for a couple of years was involved in a startup, where he was involved in working with cybersecurity companies in Israel and the USA, helping them market their products.He started the PhD in Feb 2019 on a part-time, distance basis.

Some resources:Working Paper Link: https://iainnash.ie/content/Cybersecurity_In_A_Post_Data_Environment.pdfTruncated abstract:This paper outlines the threats which are posed by the hacking of Smart Devices, and provides a rudimentary methodology to apportion liability to either the manufacturer or the user, where appropriate, following a hack. This is done in a robust manner, from a technologically agnostic perspective, to ensure a persistent relevance in the face of unrelenting technological advancement.

Good books (non academic)

Bruce Schneier - Click Here To Kill Everybody

Bruce Schneier - Schneier on Security

Joel Brenner - America The Vulnerable

Good blogs:Ross Anderson's blog: https://www.lightbluetouchpaper.org/ (always a fascinating read)

Brian Krebs' blog: https://krebsonsecurity.com/

Interesting Reads:Stuxnet (where it all began from a cyber physical threat perspective) - https://www.wired.com/2014/11/countdown-to-zero-day-stuxnet

NotPetya - https://www.wired.com/story/notpetya-cyberattack-ukraine-russiacode-crashed-the-world

Wannacry - https://www.theverge.com/2017/5/12/15630354/nhs-hospitals-ransomware-hack-wannacry-bitcoin & https://www.theverge.com/2017/5/14/15637472/renault-nissan-shut-down-french-uk-factories-wannacrycyberattack

Mirai (the largest [at the time] Botnet in the world, made up of mostly IoT devices) - https://blog.cloudflare.com/inside-mirai-the-infamous-iot-botnet-a-retrospective-analysis/