Alison Bisset
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Associate Professor
- Associate Professor in International Human Rights Law
- School Director of Enterprise, responsible for careers, co-curricular, pro bono and work experience programmes
Areas of interest
- Transitional justice
- International criminal law
- International children's rights
- International judicial cooperation
Postgraduate supervision
Dr Bisset welcomes proposals from prospective doctoral students with an interest in transitional justice, international criminal law, international human rights law and international children's rights.
Teaching
Dr Bisset is Module Convenor for the following modules:
- LLB: International Children's Rights
- LLB: International Human Rights Law
She also teaches on the LLM module Human Rights, Policy and Practice.
Background
Dr Alison Bisset is Associate Professor in International Human Rights Law at the University of Reading School of Law, and the School Director of Enterprise.
Dr Bisset’s research and teaching interests arise broadly in the area of international human rights law. Her scholarship has focussed on cooperation in the prosecution of international crimes, the compatibility of different transitional justice mechanisms, and children’s rights during and post conflict. She has published widely on these issues in leading law journals and in book chapters in edited collections.
Alison’s monograph, Truth Commissions and Criminal Courts (Cambridge University Press, 2012, paperback 2014), won the 2013 University of Reading Research Endowment Trust Fund prize for best faculty output and was shortlisted for the 2013 Birks prize for outstanding legal scholarship. She is the editor (2014-) of Blackstone's International Human Rights Documents, published by Oxford University Press.
Alison has advised government departments, intergovernmental organisations, national armed forces, and civil society bodies on issues relating to international criminal law and transitional justice.