Shane Darcy is Deputy Director of the Irish Centre for Human Rights in the School of Law at NUI Galway. He holds a B.A. in Law and Accounting from the University of Limerick (2001), and LL.M (2002) and Ph.D (2005) degrees from the National University of Ireland, Galway. He has been a visiting scholar at the Legal Studies Department, Central European University, Budapest, the Human Rights Program at Harvard Law School, the Centre for Public International and Comparative Law at the University of Queensland and the Law School at Doshisha University In Kyoto. He is a member of the Editorial Board of the Irish Yearbook of International Law and the Editorial Committee of Criminal Law Forum. He has served on the National Board of Amnesty International's Irish Section  

Selected Publications

To Serve the Enemy: Informers, Collaborators and the Laws of Armed Conflict, Oxford University Press, 2019.

Judges, Law and War: The Judicial Development of International Humanitarian Law, Cambridge University Press, 2014.

The Potential Role of Criminal Law in a Business and Human Rights Treaty, in Surya Deva and David Bilchitz (eds.), Building a Treaty on Business and Human Rights: Context and Contours , Cambridge University Press, 2017 .

Research interests are in the fields of international humanitarian law, international criminal law, and business and human rights. Previous work has consideredthe judicial development of international humanitarian law,the laws of occupation, belligerent reprisals, collective responsibility and punishment, imputed criminal liability, truth commissions and commissions of inquiry and the phenomenon ofcollaboration inarmed conflict.

Introduction to International Criminal Law Business and Human Rights International Humanitarian Law Procedure before International Criminal Courts Contemporary Issues in Human Rights: Climate Justice