Professor Siobhán Mullally to head NUI Galway human rights centre

Professor Siobhán Mullally has been appointed as the Established Professor of Human Rights Law and Director of the Irish Centre for Human Rights at NUI Galway.

Professor Mullally, who will take up her post in September 2017, is currently a Professor at the School of Law, UCC where she also holds the position of Vice-Head of the College of Business & Law.

She was recently elected president of the Council of Europe’s Group of Experts on Action Against Trafficking in Human Beings (GRETA). She is also a Commissioner of the Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission and a member of the Permanent Court of Arbitration in The Hague.

Professor Donncha O’Connell, head of the School of Law at NUI Galway, said: “We, in the School of Law and Irish Centre for Human Rights, are delighted that Siobhán Mullally is joining us as a colleague and we look forward the tremendous value that she will undoubtedly add to our work, nationally and internationally.

“Professor Mullally is an academic of unrivalled renown who, as well as being recognised internationally as one of the foremost scholars in her field, is also a very generous thought leader in civil society.

“I am certain that she will, in the years ahead, build on the very strong reputation of the Irish Centre for Human Rights at NUI Galway as a world class academic institution.”

Professor Mullally said: “The Irish Centre for Human Rights at NUI Galway is one of the world’s premier human rights centres, with an outstanding track record of research, post-graduate teaching and doctoral education in the field of human rights law.

“Uniquely situated at the cross-roads of practice, policy and academia, the Centre brings together human rights practitioners and scholars from across the world in a dynamic intellectual environment.

“At this critical time for human rights globally, I look forward to working with colleagues at the Centre and School of Law, to contribute to informed policy debates on many pressing human rights challenges - from gender equality, women’s human rights and social justice, to refugee and migrant protection.”