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This PhD symposium is an annual event during which Centre PhD students present on their research to visiting experts, staff and fellow students. A unique event in the discipline of law in Ireland, if not further afield, the doctoral seminar has been running for over two decades.

This year’s visiting external experts were Professor Neha Jain of Northwestern University, who presented on ‘The Market Turn in Refugee Law’ and Dr Joe Powderly, an Associate professor at Leiden University in the Netherlands and a graduate of the Irish Centre for Human Rights PhD programme, who gave a lecture entitled on ‘When Navalny went to Strasbourg’.

The programme displayed the diversity of topics being studied at the Irish Centre for Human Rights, across human rights law, refugee and migration law, international criminal law and humanitarian law. It also highlighted the international make-up of the doctoral community at the Irish Centre for Human Rights, with students from Canada, Palestine, Uganda, the United States, India, Sierra Leone, China, and Ireland of course.

Several of the Irish Centre for Human Rights students have been the recipients of prestigious scholarships, including Hardiman scholarships as well as from Research Ireland. We were joined this year by a number of PhD students from the School of Law and the Centre for Disability Law and Policy. The doctoral seminar is coordinated by Professor Shane Darcy, the Director of the PhD Programme at the Centre.