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Dr Christine Bicknell
Senior Lecturer
Law School
Dr Christine Bicknell is a public international lawyer with research focus on international human rights law and European human rights law. She has expertise and experience in, but by no means confined to, the prohibition and prevention of torture and cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment across a range of detention settings and legal systems.
In her published and ongoing research Dr Bicknell has a strong interest in the intersections between different legal systems and frameworks of rights protection: intersections for example between regional systems; between domestic and international structures; and between different but sometimes disparate thematic frameworks. Dr Bicknell is especially interested in structural issues at both domestic and international levels which enable or otherwise impede appropriate application of rights. These she explores keenly as capable of deepening understanding of specific rights issues, and identifying and potentially unlocking barriers to the effective protection of rights.
Dr Bicknell’s published work spans the United Nations human rights framework, and the Council of Europe, European Union, and United Kingdom legal systems.
