Maebh Harding
University College Dublin Sutherland School of Law – Dr Maebh Harding
Assistant Professor in Family and Child Law at UCD will lead the project. Her research combines a critical feminist perspective with empirical, historical and doctrinal rigour to challenge legal regulation of family life. She takes particular interest, not only in law and gender, but in how family justice systems actually work. Her work has been widely cited and has significantly impacted policy and practice.
Aoife O’donoghue
Queen’s University Law School - Professor Aoife O’Donoghue
Professor O’Donoghue works extensively on projects relating to utopia, feminism and international law and tyranny, in particular taking a law and humanities perspective that incorporates history, literature and theory. Aoife was the co-director the Northern/Ireland Feminist Judgments Project and is co-direct of the Feminist Constitutional Futures Project.
Máiréad Enright
Birmingham University Law School - Professor Máiréad Enright
Chair in Feminist Legal Studies. Máiréad Enright’s research is in feminist legal studies and critical legal theory, with a particular focus on law and religion. She has written on issues including reproductive justice, law reform and grassroots organising, illegality in social movements, responses to historical injustice and obstetric violence. She often works with and advises groups campaigning around reproductive rights and historical gender-based violence, especially in Ireland and Northern Ireland.
Fiona de Londras
Professor Fiona de Londras, Chair of Global Legal Studies
Professor De Londras’ research concerns constitutionalism, human rights, and transnationalism. She is particularly interested in the role and function of rights in contentious policy fields, inquiring into how (if at all) rights shape the making of law and policy in complex contexts of, for example, counter-terrorism, reproductive rights, government and parliamentary responses to COVID-19, and the implementation of international legal standards.