Kieran McEvoy, Louise Mallinder
Despite the much vaunted triumph of human rights, amnesties continue to be a frequently used technique of post‐conflict transitional justice. For many critics, they are synonymous with unaccountability and injustice. This article argues that despite the rhetoric, there is no universal duty to prosec...
Kieran McEvoy
Using Northern Ireland as a case study, this paper explores how lawyers responded to the challenges of entrenched discrimination, sustained political violence and an emerging peace process. Drawing upon the literature of the sociology of lawyering, it examines whether lawyers can or should be more t...
Kieran McEvoy
This article examines how cause lawyers in conflicted and authoritarian societies balance their professional responsibilities as lawyers with their commitment to a political cause. It is drawn from extensive interviews with both lawyers and political activists in a range of societies. It focuses on ...
Kieran McEvoy
Anna Bryson, Kieran McEvoy, Allely Albert
Abstract This article traces the impact of Irish political prisoners on the prison landscape in Ireland, north and south, over the past 100 years. For the post‐1969 period in Northern Ireland, it explores three different styles of prison management: reactive containment, criminalisation, and manager...
Kieran McEvoy
Graeme Broadbent, Paul Maharg, Carol Daugherty Rasnic, Chris Ashford et al.
Abstract EDUCATING LAWYERS: PREPARATION FOR THE PROFESSION OF LAW by W.M. SULLIVAN, A. COLBY, J.W. WEGNER, L. BOND and L.S. SHULMAN [The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, Jossey‐Bass, 2007, x+ 225pp., £21.99 (hardcover)] BEST PRACTICES FOR LEGAL EDUCATION: A VISION AND A ROAD MAP ...
Kieran McEvoy
Journal Article Accountability in Restorative Justice. By Declan Roche (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003, 316pp. £50.00 hb) Get access Kieran McEvoy Kieran McEvoy Queens University Belfast Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The British Journal of Criminolog...
H. Mika, Kieran McEvoy
Paramilitary punishment violence (beatings, shootings, threats and exclusions) in Republican and Loyalist areas of Northern Ireland—itself a manifestation of community-based justice responses to the “troubles” of the past 30 years—has come under increasing local and international scrutiny and critic...