Professor Kieran McEvoy (BrexitLawNI Team)

Kieran is Professor of Law and Transitional Justice and a Senior Research Fellow at the Senator George J. Mitchell Institute for Global Peace, Security and Justice, Queen’s University Belfast. He was previously Director of Research at Queens School of Law and Director of the Institute of Criminology and Criminal Justice.  Before entering academia he worked for NIACRO, a large NGO, which advocates on behalf of prisoners, their families and ex-offenders.

His areas of research interest include transitional justice, human rights, the sociology of the legal profession, comparative legal studies, conflict res