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Specialist in public and administrative, employment, education, and information law. Aileen has a particular interest in discrimination/ equality as well as in human rights law, higher education-related work and investigations.

Called 2001, while Professor of Human Rights Law at King’s College London, and maintained a chair at KCL, then at the University of Leeds, until 2020 when Aileen took silk. She is a long-standing member of the EHRC Panel of Counsel and was junior counsel to the Independent Inquiry on Child Sexual Abuse and has been legal adviser to the Northern Ireland Forum on a Bill of Rights and UK legal expert on the European Commission's networks of legal experts on gender equality and non-discrimination. She has also chaired the Human Rights Lawyers Association and is the author of multiple editions of “Text, Cases and Materials on Discrimination Law” law and (with Professors KD Ewing and Hugh Collins) “Cases and Materials on Labour Law”,  "Discrimination, Equality and the Law" (Hart 2014) and (with S Hannett and E Prochaska) LAG's 2017 "Special Educational Needs and Disability Discrimination in Schools: a legal handbook".

ALBA, ELBA, HRLA, ILS

Educated Thornhill College Derry; Cambridge (Trinity College), and Edinburgh University

Publications include "Discrimination, Equality and the Law" (Hart 2014) and (with S Hannett and E Prochaska) LAG's 2017 "Special Educational Needs and Disability Discrimination in Schools: a legal handbook". Aileen has contributed chapters to many other works including G Millar and A Scott's, "Newsgathering: Law, Regulation and the Public Interest" (OUP, 2016), "Livingstone, Owen and MacDonald on Prison Law" (OUP, 2015) and Clayton and Tomlinson "The Law of Human Rights' (2009). She is the author of a wide range of other academic and practitioner-orientated books and articles on areas from criminal and criminal evidence law to individual and collective employment law via human rights law, data protection law and the law relating to civil procedure. The third edition of her Discrimination: Text, Cases and Materials is forthcoming in 2021, with Eddie Bruce Jones as co-author.