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  • 2019 - Member of the Royal Irish Academy

Overview

Kieran McEvoy is affiliated with Queen's University Belfast in the United Kingdom. Their research focuses primarily on the social sciences, with particular contributions in sociology and political science, law, political science and international relations, history, and general health professions.

Their work covers a range of topics including:

  • Legal Education and Practice Innovations
  • Criminal Justice and Corrections Analysis
  • Cambodian History and Society
  • Irish and British Studies
  • Historical and Contemporary Political Dynamics
  • Torture, Ethics, and Law
  • Global Peace and Security Dynamics

Recent publications by McEvoy include:

  • "Human Rights Activism and Transitional Justice Advocacy in Northern Ireland" (2023) in the International Journal of Transitional Justice
  • "Prosecutions, Imprisonment and the Stormont House Agreement: A Critical Analysis of Proposals on Dealing with the Past in Northern Ireland" (2020) in SSRN Electronic Journal
  • "Changing the Script: Non-State Armed Groups, Restorative Justice and Reparations" (2021) in Journal of Human Rights Practice
  • "John Braithwaite" (2020) in The International Journal of Restorative Justice

McEvoy has contributed to the Journal of Human Rights Practice, International Journal of Transitional Justice, SSRN Electronic Journal, Modern Law Review, and The Howard Journal of Crime and Justice.

Frequent co-authors include:

  • Anna Bryson
  • Louise Mallinder
  • Cheryl Lawther
  • Alex Batesmith
  • Luke Moffett

McEvoy has published books through Cambridge University Press, including Lawyers in Conflict and Transition (2022).

In 2019, McEvoy was awarded membership of the Royal Irish Academy.

Best Publications

  • Beyond Legalism: Towards a Thicker Understanding of Transitional Justice

    Kieran McEvoy

  • Transitional Justice From Below: Grassroots Activism and the Struggle for Change

    Kieran McEvoy;Lorna McGregor

  • Paramilitary Imprisonment in Northern Ireland: Resistance, Management, and Release

    Kieran McEvoy

  • Victims and Transitional Justice: Voice, Agency and Blame

    Kieran McEvoy;Kirsten McConnachie

  • Victimology in transitional justice:Victimhood, innocence and hierarchy

    Kieran McEvoy;Kirsten McConnachie

  • State Crime by Proxy and Juridical Othering

    Ruth Jamieson;Kieran McEvoy

  • Beyond the Wire: Former Prisoners and Conflict Transformation in Northern Ireland

    Peter Shirlow;Kieran McEvoy

  • RESTORATIVE JUSTICE AND THE CRITIQUE OF INFORMALISM IN NORTHERN IRELAND

    Kieran Mcevoy;Harry Mika

  • Re-imagining DDR Ex-combatants, leadership and moral agency in conflict transformation

    Kieran McEvoy;Peter Shirlow

  • Transitional Justice From Below: An Agenda for Research, Policy and Praxis

    Kieran McEvoy;L. McGregor

  • Evaluation of the Northern Ireland Youth Conferencing Service

    C Campbell;R Devlin;D O'Mahony;J Doak

  • Letting go of Legalism : Developing a Thicker Version of Transitional Justice

    Kieran McEvoy

  • Punishment, policing and praxis: Restorative justice and non‐violent alternatives to paramilitary punishments in Northern Ireland

    Kieran McEvoy;Harry Mika

  • The Dead, the Law, and the Politics of the Past

    Kieron McEvoy;Heather Conway

  • Amnesties in Transition: Punishment, Restoration, and the Governance of Mercy

    Kieran McEvoy;Louise Mallinder

  • Reconciliation as a Dirty Word: Conflict, Community Relations and Education in Northern Ireland

    Lesley McEvoy;Kieran McEvoy;Kirsten McConnachie

  • RESISTANCE, TRANSITION AND EXCLUSION: POLITICALLY MOTIVATED EX-PRISONERS AND CONFLICT TRANSFORMATION IN NORTHERN IRELAND

    Kieran McEvoy;Peter Shirlow;Karen McElrath

  • The home front. The families of politically motivated prisoners in Northern Ireland

    Kieran Mcevoy;David O'Mahony;Carol Horner;Olwen Lyner

  • Law, Struggle and Political Transformation in Northern Ireland

    Kieran McEvoy

  • Criminology, Conflict Resolution and Restorative Justice

    Kieran McEvoy;Tim Newburn

  • What Did the Lawyers Do During the ‘War’? Neutrality, Conflict and the Culture of Quietism

    Kieran McEvoy

Frequent Co-Authors

Tim Newburn
Tim Newburn London School of Economics and Political Science

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