School of Law

Staff

Biography
Colin Harvey was appointed  Head of  the School of Law in August 2007. He has been  Professor of Human Rights Law  at the Human Rights Centre in the School of Law since January 2005.  From 2000-2004 he was Professor of Constitutional and Human Rights Law, School of Law, University of Leeds and Co-Convenor of the Human Rights Research Unit. He has previously taught at: the University of Michigan; Adam Michiewicz University, Poznan, Poland ; Queen's University Belfast (1997-2000); and the University of Wales, Aberystwyth. In 1999 he was a Visiting Professor at the Refugee and Asylum Law Program, Faculty of Law, University of Michigan. He is currently a member of the Northern Ireland Higher Education Council, the Advisory Board of the British Institute of Human Rights and the Steering Group of the UK section of the International Association of Constitutional Law. He was Refugee Co-ordinator for Amnesty International (Irish Section) 1998-2000 and a member of the Executive of the Committee on the Administration of Justice 1999-2000. He is on the editorial board of Human Rights Law Review and is the Case Editor for the International Journal of Refugee Law. He has secured research funding from: the Nuffield Foundation; the British Academy; the Home Office; and the Modern Law Review.

He specialises in human rights law with a particular interest in refugee and asylum law. He has published extensively in these areas. His books include Seeking Asylum in the UK: Problems and Prospects (2000); Human Rights in the Community: Rights as Agents for Change (2005); Sanctuary in Ireland: Perspectives on Asylum Law and Policy (2004, with Ursula Fraser); Human Rights, Equality and Democratic Renewal in Northern Ireland (2001); No Welcome Here? Asylum Seekers and Refugees in Ireland and Britain (2001, with Margaret Ward); and Voices, Spaces and Processes in Constitutionalism (2000, with John Morison and Jo Shaw). He has been guest editor of a number of legal journals: Journal of Law and Society; Northern Ireland Legal Quarterly; Canadian Journal of Law and Jurisprudence; and Refuge- Canada's Periodical on Refugees .

Teaching

Undergraduate

• Constitutional Law

Postgraduate

• LLM Human Rights Law

Research

Human Rights Law, Refugee and Asylum Law, Constitutional Law.

Selected Publications

“The Right to Seek Asylum in the European Union” [2004] European Human Rights Law Review 17

“The Frontiers of Legal Analysis: Reframing the Transition in Northern Ireland ” (with Colm Campbell and Fionnuala Ni Aolain) (2003) 66 Modern Law Review 317

“Framing Refugee Protection in the New World Disorder” (with James Hathaway) (2001) 34 Cornell International Law Journal 257

Human Rights, Equality and Democratic Renewal in Northern Ireland (2001, ed.) Hart Publishing

“Governing After the Rights Revolution” (2000) 27 Journal of Law and Society 61

Seeking Asylum in the UK : Problems and Prospects (2000) Butterworths, Law in Context Series

Administration

Head of School, 2007-present
Director, Human Rights Centre 2005-present