Louise Mallinder

Louise Mallinder is a Professor of Law at Queen’s University Belfast and the Deputy Director of the Senator George J. Mitchell Institute for Global Peace, Security and Justice. Her research focuses on the intersections of law and peace, focusing on themes such as transitional justice, human rights, international law, and amnesty laws. Her books include the award-winning Amnesties, Human Rights and Political Transitions (Hart 2009) and the co-authored Lawyers in Conflict and Transition (CUP 2022). She is currently co-editing The Elgar Concise Encyclopedia on Law and Peace (with L. Dempster and R. Killean).

She is a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences and the Higher Education Academy. In addition, she is a member of the Institute for Integrated Transitions Law and Peace Practice Group and the Executive Board of the Committee on the Administration of Justice, a human rights organisation based in Northern Ireland.