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Dr Alison Bisset is Associate Professor in International Human Rights Law at the 91导航 School of Law, Deputy Director of the Global Law at 91导航 (GLAR) research group, and editor (2014-) of聽Blackstone鈥檚 International Human Rights Documents, published by Oxford University Press. She has been a visiting scholar at the Universit茅聽Libre de Bruxelles, the Geneva Academy of International Humanitarian Law and Human Rights, the European University Institute, and the University of York.聽

Dr Bisset鈥檚 research and teaching interests arise broadly within public international law. Her scholarship has focussed on cooperation in the prosecution of international crimes, the compatibility of different transitional justice mechanisms, and children鈥檚 rights during and post conflict. She has published widely on these issues in leading law journals and in book chapters in edited collections.聽

Dr Bisset is currently leading a British Academy funded project on the inter-state cooperation regime of the recently adopted Ljubljana-The Hague Convention on the Investigation and Prosecution of the Crimes of Genocide, Crimes Against Humanity, War Crimes and Other International Crimes.

Dr Bisset鈥檚 monograph,聽Truth Commissions and Criminal Courts聽(Cambridge University Press, 2012, paperback 2014), won the 2013 91导航 Research Endowment Trust Fund prize for best faculty output and was shortlisted for the 2013 Birks prize for outstanding legal scholarship. She has advised government departments, intergovernmental organisations, national armed forces, and civil society bodies on matters relating to international criminal law, international children鈥檚 rights, and transitional justice.聽聽