Academic biography

Dr. David Keane is Associate Professor in Law at the School of Law and Government, DCU. He holds a BCL (Law and French) from University College Cork, Ireland, and an LLM and PhD from the Irish Centre for Human Rights, NUI Galway, where he was awarded a Government of Ireland scholarship. Dr. Keane's research is in international human rights law, with a particular focus on the International Convention on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (ICERD) and related aspects of the UN human rights system. He has published 4 books and over 40 journal articles and book chapters in this area, including Caste-based Discrimination in International Human Rights Law (Routledge, 2007), awarded the Hart-SLSA Book Prize for early career academics, and 50 Years of ICERD (Manchester University Press, 2017). His most recent work is on inter-State cases under ICERD, with current journal articles in International Human Rights Law Review, the Melbourne Journal of International Law and The Law and Practice of International Courts & Tribunals, among others. Dr Keane's work has been widely cited, including by the Supreme Court of the UK and the Supreme Court of India. He acts also as a visiting professor at the University of Bordeaux, France.