Justiciability of Human Rights Law in Domestic Jurisdictions

Alice Diver (LLB, LLM, Solicitor, PGCHEP, FHEA, PhD) Edge Hill University, England, has been a lecturer in law since 1993 (at the NWRC, and Ulster University, Northern Ireland) and was course director for the LLB degrees at the School of Law (Magee) Ulster University from 2009-2014, having joined their teaching team in 2004. She was external examiner for the Law degrees at LYIT, Ireland (2010-2014) and IPAV, Dublin (1999-2002). Prior to becoming a lecturer, she worked as a Solicitor in private practice in both Belfast and Derry, Northern Ireland (1989 -1995). She teaches in the areas of Equity & Trusts, Land Law, Social and Economic Rights and Dissertation Research Methods. Her publications focus largely upon the areas of human rights, property law, adoption and cultural heritage. She has recently published 'A Law Of Blood-Ties: The 'Right' To Access Genetic Ancestry' (2013, Springer Int'l) and currently serves as a board member/trustee for several charitable organisations in Northern Ireland (Apex Housing, Kinship Care, Londonderry Inner City Trust, The Buildings Preservation Trust). Jacinta Miller (LLB, MSc. PGCHEP, FHEA, PhD) has been a Lecturer at the School of Law, University of Ulster, since 2003, and an Associate Researcher at the Transitional Justice Institute since 2013.   She graduated in 2002 with an LLB in Law and Business Studies (1st Class Honours) from the University of Ulster (Magee) and completed her PhD on the 'right to health' in 2009.  She completed her Postgraduate Certificate in Higher Education Practice in 2007 and has been a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy since 2008. Prior to studying and teaching in the area of law she worked in health care.  She qualified as a Registered General Nurse in 1987 at the North Down College of Nursing (Ulster Hospital), maintaining her registration until 2000. She completed an MSc in Community Health at the University of Edinburgh in 1994. She has worked in both hospital and community settings in Northern Ireland and also worked with Concern Worldwide and Oxfam in East Africa (Sudan, Ethiopia and the Great Lakes Region). Her teaching and research interests are in the areas of health law, human rights, European Union law, Evidence and Criminal law.