Dr. Róisín Burke

Biography

Róisín Burke is an Assistant Professor of Public International Law at the Netherlands Institute of Human Rights (SIM) at Utrecht University. She teaches undergraduate and master’s programs in Public International Law, focusing on Atrocity Crimes, Transitional Justice, and Women, Peace, and Security (WPS). Her research interests encompass international criminal law, international humanitarian law (IHL), and human rights law, and she has presented her work at international conferences and workshops globally. Róisín leads a project funded by NWO related to WPS and is involved in transboundary water diplomacy and environmental peacebuilding in the South Caucasus. She has instigated the establishment of the Women Water Diplomacy Network in the region and has published articles on the conduct and discipline frameworks in African Union peace operations. Previously, she served as a Senior Law Lecturer at the University of Canterbury and worked as a Political Advisor at the Permanent Mission of Ireland to the UN. Róisín completed her doctorate at the Asia Pacific Centre for Military Law at the University of Melbourne Law School in 2012, focusing on the UN's responsibility regarding the sexual exploitation and abuse by military contingents. The resulting monograph was published by Brill in 2014. Róisín holds an LLB in Law and European Studies from the University of Limerick and an LLM in International Human Rights Law from the Irish Centre for Human Rights at NUIG, and she is an admitted attorney in New York State.

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