Dr
James
Gallen
Primary Department
School of Law and Government
Role
Associate Professor in Law

6045
Email Address
james.gallen@dcu.ie
Campus
Glasnevin Campus
Room Number
C145
Academic biography
James Gallen is an associate professor in the School of Law and Government at Dublin City University. His research interests include human rights, international law and legal and transitional justice. His present research agenda and recent publications concern a transitional justice approach to historical abuse in consolidated democracies and in Christian churches. His first monograph Transitional Justice and the Historical Abuses of Church and State will be published by Cambridge University Press in 2022.In 2017 he was appointed as an Expert Advisor on Transitional Justice by the Department of Children and Youth Affairs to advise on a transitional justice approach to the issue of Mother and Baby Homes.