Dr Clare Frances Moran

Dr Clare Frances Moran
Dr Clare Frances Moran
Dr Clare Frances Moran

LLB (Hons), LLM, Dip LP, PhD, FHEA, FRSA

Lecturer

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Email Address
cf.moran@abdn.ac.uk
Office Address
C-07 Taylor Building
Old Aberdeen Campus
High Street
AB24 3UB

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School/Department
School of Law

Biography

Clare Frances is lecturer in law at Aberdeen Law School, specialising in international criminal law. She holds degrees from Edinburgh Napier University (LLB Hons) and the universities of Edinburgh (LLM) and Glasgow (PhD). She has taught law in several Scottish universities, and has previously held visiting research positions at Columbia University, New York, and the Max Planck Institute for Foreign and International Criminal Law. She is also a listed Assistant to Counsel at the International Criminal Court.

Clare Frances' research interests lie in the related areas of international criminal law, international humanitarian law, and international human rights law, and she has published widely in these areas. Her first monograph, 'The Authority of International Criminal Law: A Controversial Concept', is published in 2023 by Cambridge University Press. Her work has also engaged with the role of defences in both domestic and the international criminal legal systems, the role of the International Criminal Court in prosecuting human trafficking, and the way in which international criminal law and human rights law can be used to support the rights of refugees.

Memberships and Affiliations

Internal Memberships
  • Theme Coordinator, Criminal Justice and Human Rights

 

  • PGT Policy Committee Member

 

  • Board Member, Aberdeen University Press

 

  • Member of the Aberdeen Centre for Constitutional and Public International Law
External Memberships
  • External Examiner, University of Glasgow

 

  • Co-convener, Interest Group on Peace and Security, European Society of International Law

 

  • Fellow of the Higher Education Academy

 

  • Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts

 

  • Listed Assistant to Counsel, International Criminal Court

 

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Prizes and Awards

Merit Scholarship holder 2013, International Law Fund.

Research

Research Overview

Clare Frances' research interests relate to international criminal law, international humanitarian law, and international human rights law. Her most recent project culminated in the publication of her first monograph, 'The Authority of International Criminal Law: A Controversial Concept', published in 2023 by Cambridge University Press.

 

Her work has also engaged with the role of defences in both domestic and the international criminal legal systems, the role of the International Criminal Court in prosecuting human trafficking, and the way in which international criminal law and human rights law can be used to support the rights of refugees.

Research Areas

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Research Specialisms

  • Law
  • Public International Law
  • Criminal Justice
  • Criminal Law

Our research specialisms are based on the Higher Education Classification of Subjects (HECoS) which is HESA open data, published under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International licence.

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