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Queen's University Belfast: N/A, GB

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Queen's University Belfast: Belfast, GB

2021-09-13 to present | LECTURER (LAW)
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Liverpool John Moores University: Liverpool, Merseyside, GB

2018-09-12 to 2021-09-12 | SENIOR LECTURER (LAW)
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Edge Hill University: Ormskirk, Lancashire, GB

2015-09-17 to 2018-09-11 | Senior Lecturer (Law and Criminology)
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University of Ulster - Magee Campus: Londonderry, Derry, GB

2004-08 to 2015-09 | Lecturer (School of Law; TJI)
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North West Regional College: Londonderry, GB

1993 to 2004 | Assoc. Lecturer (Business Services; Arts)
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Fergus McCafferty Solicitors : Derry, Derry, GB

1992 to 1995 | Solicitor (Conveyancing, Probate, Matrimonial, Debt)
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T M Heron & Son Solicitors: Belfast, Belfast, GB

1989 to 1991 | Apprentice Solicitor (Conveyancing, Probate)
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Education and qualifications (6)

University of Ulster: Coleraine, Coleraine, GB

2012-09-15 to 2017-07-03 | BA HONS ENGLISH LITERATURE (ENGLISH AND HISTORY)
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University of Ulster at Jordanstown: Newtownabbey, Antrim, GB

2005 to 2011 | PhD (Law)
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University of Ulster - Magee Campus: Londonderry, Derry, GB

2006 to 2007 | PGCHEP (Education)
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Queen's University Belfast: Belfast, N Ireland, GB

2002 to 2004 | LLM Human Rights & Criminal Justice (Dist.) (Law)
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Queen's University Belfast (IPLS): Belfast, Belfast, GB

1989 to 1991 | Certificate in Professional Legal Studies (Solicitor) (Inst of Professional Legal Studies )
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Queen's University Belfast: Belfast, Belfast, GB

1984 to 1988 | LLB (Law)
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Works (44)

Absent(ed) mothers in Ireland and elsewhere: erasures of maternity in adoption law, policy, and literature

The missing mother
2024-11-01 | Book chapter | Author
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Queen's University Belfast - PURE

Forced adoption as war crime: representations of orphanizing and child trafficking in The Giver and The Handmaid's Tale

Adoption & Culture
2024-08-14 | Journal article | Author
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Queen's University Belfast - PURE

Preventing statelessness – and protecting the best interests of the “abandoned” child – via the war crime of adoption

Alliance for the Study of Adoption & Culture 2024 Biennial Conference, Providence , United States, 04/04/2024
2024-04-04 | Conference paper | Author
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Queen's University Belfast - PURE

“Peculiar finalities”: blurring the borders between abduction and adoption?

Adoption & Culture
2023-12-27 | Journal article | Author
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Queen's University Belfast - PURE

Adoption’s ‘golden age’: from orphan rescue to the rights of the child

Genetic stigma in law and literature: orphanhood, adoption, and the right to reunion
2023-12-19 | Book chapter | Author
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Part of ISBN: 9783031462467
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Queen's University Belfast - PURE

Customs and ‘laws’ of orphanisation: bastards and foundlings in folklore and fairy tale

Genetic stigma in law and literature: orphanhood, adoption, and the right to reunion
2023-12-19 | Book chapter | Author
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Queen's University Belfast - PURE

Introduction

Genetic stigma in law and literature: orphanhood, adoption, and the right to reunion
2023-12-19 | Book chapter | Author
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Queen's University Belfast - PURE

Legal fictions, dystopian truths: [re]writing family life rights

Genetic stigma in law and literature: orphanhood, adoption, and the right to reunion
2023-12-19 | Book chapter | Author
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Queen's University Belfast - PURE

Monsters, heroes, waifs, and a ‘witch’

Genetic stigma in law and literature: orphanhood, adoption, and the right to reunion
2023-12-19 | Book chapter | Author
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Queen's University Belfast - PURE

Genetic stigma in law and literature: orphanhood, adoption, and the right to reunion

Palgrave Socio-Legal Studies
2023-12-18 | Book | Author
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Queen's University Belfast - PURE

Social justice tropes in law and literature: rights narratives, legal fictions, and (un)writable wrongs?

Liverpool Law Review
2023-10 | Other | Author
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Queen's University Belfast - PURE

The rationing of essential resources in times of crisis: Logan’s Run and the ‘science-fictional’ right to life under Article 2 of the ECHR

Liverpool Law Review
2023-10 | Journal article | Author
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Contributors: alice diver; Rossella Pulvirenti; Leigh Roberts
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Queen's University Belfast - PURE

Law and adoption in the UK: a conversation with Alice Diver

Adoption & Culture
2023-08-01 | Other | Author
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Contributors: alice diver; Emily Hipchen
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Queen's University Belfast - PURE

The ‘invisible’ first mother in family law and popular fiction: rights, redress, and myths of relinquishment

Socio-Legal Studies Association Annual Conference 2023, Derry/Londonderry, United Kingdom, 04/04/2023
2023-04-05 | Conference paper | Author
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Queen's University Belfast - PURE

Templates for a right to family life in the shadow of adoption: redressive reforms and calls for apologies in Ireland and the UK

International Society of Family Law Caribbean Regional Conference: safeguarding the human rights of family members, Tobago, Trinidad and Tobago, 13/12/2022
2022-12-15 | Conference paper | Author
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Queen's University Belfast - PURE

The overturning of Roe V. Wade: some “ageing adoptee” thoughts, questions, and a wish-list

Adoption & Culture
2022-11-16 | Journal article | Author
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Queen's University Belfast - PURE

The Significance of R(BG and Anor) v Suffolk CC (2021): Meeting ‘Eligible Need[s]’ in Social Care?

Liverpool Law Review
2022-10 | Journal article
Contributors: Alice Diver; Belinda Schwehr
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Child abduction law in the wake of Brexit: borders, best interests, and the Hague Convention

Brexit, droits et libertés
2022-07-19 | Book chapter | Author
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Queen's University Belfast - PURE

Challenging unjust rationings of fairness: law, literature and [dystopian] legal fictions

The Association for the Study of Law, Culture, and the Humanities<br/>24th Annual Conference: Unsettling Law<br/>, Atlanta, United States, 16/06/2022
2022-06-17 | Conference paper | Author
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Queen's University Belfast - PURE

Equity, Altruism, and the Voice of the Child in An Episode of Sparrows: Perennial Issues of Youth Justice and Child Protection

Children's Literature Association Quarterly
2021-12-01 | Journal article | Author
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Queen's University Belfast - PURE

Familial relations as rights (and responsibilities): truths and (mis)trust in the law and literature on origin deprivation

2021 Conference of the Law, Literature and Humanities Association of Australasia<br/>, Queensland, Australia, 29/11/2021
2021-12-01 | Conference paper | Author
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Queen's University Belfast - PURE

‘The Grapes of Wrath: An Artful Jurisprudence’

STEINBECK REVIEW
2021-12-01 | Journal article | Author
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Contributors: alice diver; Jules Bradshaw
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Queen's University Belfast - PURE

Diver A. “Monstrous Othering”: The Gothic Nature of Origin-Tracing in Law and Literature

ADOPTION AND CULTURE
2021-11 | Journal article
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Brexit, borders and best interests in Europe: implications for family law cases involving surrogacy, family life, and the right to authentic identity

8th Biennial ASAC conference : Association for the Study of Adoption and Culture , 20/10/2021
2021-10-22 | Conference paper | Author
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Contributors: alice diver
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Queen's University Belfast - PURE

Editorial

Journal of Work-Applied Management
2021-09-21 | Journal article
Contributors: Alice Diver; Rachel Stalker
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Covid-19 Health Crises and Human Rights in Italy and the UK: is an Ethical Rationing of Healthcare resources possible?

Ethics put to the test of the crisis
2021-06-11 | Book chapter
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Invitation to trusteeship rather than treat? Higher Education, human rights and student litigation: A response to Fulford (2020)

Higher Education Quarterly
2021-01 | Journal article
Contributors: Alice Diver
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Identity: A (Human) Right to Ancestry and Genetic Origin (Keynote talk)

Adoption Justice: Issues of Records and Identity: Adoption Truths Day International Conference
2020-09-09 | Conference paper | Author
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Queen's University Belfast - PURE

Jane Eyre and social justice: How to survive a (Victorian) ‘witch’ trial

Preternature: Critical and Historical Studies on the Preternatural
2020-06-01 | Journal article
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Employability via Higher Education: Sustainability as Scholarship

2019-11-01 | Book | Author
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Queen's University Belfast - PURE

Clients, clinics and social justice: Reducing inequality (and embedding legal ethics) via an LLB portfolio pathway

Higher Education, Skills and Work-based Learning
2018 | Journal article
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Contributors: Collinson, R.; Diver, A.; McAvoy, S.
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That “Vaulty Night”: Trials, Testimonies, and Critiques of Justice in Beckett’s Panopticon Prison-stage

Law, Culture and the Humanities
2018-07-05 | Journal article
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Part of ISSN: 1743-9752
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Can rights be ring-fenced in times of austerity? Equality, equity and judicial ‘trusteeship’ over the UK’s fairness Agenda

Justiciability of Human Rights Law in Domestic Jurisdictions
2015 | Book
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Contributors: Miller, J.; Diver, A.
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Justiciability of human rights law in domestic jurisdictions

Justiciability of Human Rights Law in Domestic Jurisdictions
2015 | Book
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Contributors: Miller, J.; Diver, A.
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Preface

Justiciability of Human Rights Law in Domestic Jurisdictions
2015 | Book
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Contributors: Miller, J.; Diver, A.
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Putting dignity to bed? The taxing question of the UK’s housing rights ‘relapse’

Justiciability of Human Rights Law in Domestic Jurisdictions
2015 | Book
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Contributors: Diver, A.
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A law of blood-ties - the ‘right’ to access genetic ancestry

A Law of Blood-Ties - the 'Right' to Access Genetic Ancestry
2014 | Book
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Contributors: Diver, A.
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International Law/European Court of Human Rights (Bibliography edition)

Adoption & Culture
2014-10-01 | Journal article | Author
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Queen's University Belfast - PURE

'They Took Our Flag!' Should Northern Ireland's Decision-Makers View Mnemonic Heritage Emblems as 'Cultural Easements' in International Law?

macquarie law journal
2014-01-01 | Journal article | Author
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Queen's University Belfast - PURE

Conceptualizing the ‘right’ to avoid origin deprivation: international law and domestic implementation

Adoption & Culture
2012-03-01 | Journal article | Author
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Queen's University Belfast - PURE

'Clean hands' or 'kinship trusts'? Detrimental reliance and familial promises in Northern Ireland's Chancery Division

Trusts & Trustees
2011-09-01 | Journal article
Part of ISSN: 1363-1780
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The ‘earned privilege’ of family contact in Northern Ireland: judicial justification of prisoners’ loss of family life

Howard Journal of Criminal Justice
2008-11-11 | Journal article | Author
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Queen's University Belfast - PURE

Prayers, planners and pluralism: Protecting the rights of minority religious groups

Studies in Religion, Secular Beliefs and Human Rights
2007 | Book
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Contributors: Diver, A.; Thatompson, J.
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A Just War: Protecting Indigenous Cultural Property

INDIGENOUS LAW BULLETIN
2004-08-01 | Journal article | Author
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Queen's University Belfast - PURE

Peer review (6 reviews for 1 publication/grant)

Review activity for The Liverpool law review. (6)