Shannonbrooke Murphy

BA HONS (UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO), LLM (UNIVERSITY OF GALWAY), PHD (MIDDLESEX)
ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR
ENDOWED CHAIR IN HUMAN RIGHTS
DIRECTOR, ATLANTIC HUMAN RIGHTS CENTRE

Dr. Murphy was born in Toronto and lived and worked in Ireland for almost 20 years before coming to STU. She earned a BA Hons in Peace and Conflict Studies from the University of Toronto, an LLM in International Human Rights Law from the National University of Ireland Galway (now University of Galway) and a PhD from Middlesex University (UK). She has been a legislative, political, and policy advisor to Irish parliamentarians on matters of human rights and related provisions of the Good Friday Agreement (the 1998 Irish Peace Agreement). She was appointed to the New Brunswick Human Rights Commission in 2023. She was appointed Director of the Atlantic Human Rights Centre in 2024. Her first book The Human Right to Resist in International and Constitutional Law is published by Cambridge University Press. The second edition of her co-edited volume with Professor William Schabas OC, The Research Handbook on International Courts and Tribunals, is forthcoming from Edward Elgar Publishers in 2024.