Inaugural lecture of Professor Kasey McCall-Smith

Credit: Edinburgh Law School

Professor McCall-Smith, who holds the chair of international law and human rights, is programme director for the LLM in human rights. She joined the law school on a permanent basis in 2014. She is a US qualified lawyer and holds a BA and a JD from the University of Arkansas. She also holds an LLM and PhD from the University of Edinburgh.

She is an active researcher in international human rights law, treaty law and is interested in how different actors contribute to the development of international law, including the role of treaty bodies as generators of law. For several years she has been exploring best practice in relation to incorporating human rights treaties into national law with a focus on how different actors negotiate the vertical relationship between international and national law.

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