Description: Studies what lawyers do in challenging contexts of conflict, authoritarianism, and the transition from violence.
Brief description: Kieran McEvoy is Professor of Law and Transitional Justice at Queen's University Belfast. He is author or editor of six books on conflict and transition. He is a Fellow of the British Academy, a Member of Royal Irish Academy, a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences and has been a human rights activist for over three decades.
Review Quotes: '... invaluable ... a realistic assessment of the complexities of the morally and politically fraught profession of cause lawyering.' David Dyzenhaus, Journal of Law and Society