School of Law

Staff

Biography
Marny Requa graduated from Northwestern University with a bachelor's degree in Journalism in 1993. In 2001, she was awarded a master's degree in Latin American Studies at the University of California, Berkeley and completed a thesis entitled The International Pinochet Case and Transitional Justice in Chile. She then completed a Juris Doctorate degree at Fordham University School of Law in New York, graduating magna cum laude, and was admitted to the New York Bar in 2005. From 2004 to 2005, Marny worked as a law clerk to the Hon. Denny Chin, U.S. District Court, Southern District of New York. She was an adjunct professor at Fordham University School of Law in Spring 2005 and has worked as a consultant for Human Rights First.  Marny is on the Advisory Board of Fordham School of Law’s Crowley Program in International Human Rights, and she is a member of the Latin American Studies Association. She joined the school of law at Queen's in October 2005.

Teaching

Undergraduate:

• Evidence
• Sentencing
• Criminal Law

Research

Criminal Justice, Human Rights, Transitional Justice

Selected publications

(with G. Anthony) “Coroners, controversial deaths, and Northern Ireland’s past conflict” (2008) Public Law, Autumn.

“The Right to Examine Witnesses under the ECHR: Testing the Boundaries in UK Courts” in Rule of Law and Fundamental Rights of Citizens: the European and American Conventions on Human Rights (forthcoming 2008) Alfa Dikia II Project, European Public Law Series (London: Esperia Publications). 

"Truth, Transition and the Inquiries Act 2005" (2007) 4 European Human Rights Law Review 404.

“Northern Ireland: Criminal Justice Reforms Six Years After the Accord” (with G. Conroy et al.) (2004) 59 The Record 314 (also published as “Northern Ireland: A Report by a Mission of the Committee on International Human Rights” (2004), Association of the Bar of the City of New York).

“The Bitter Transition,” in Roger Burbach, The Pinochet Affair (2003) Transnational Institute.