Harriet Ní Chinnéide (Kennedy) is a doctoral researcher at the Constitutional Law Unit in Hasselt University. Her research is situated within the broader iBOF Research Project “Future-proofing Human Rights: Developing Thicker Forms of Accountability.” Her PhD is supervised by Prof. Dr. Stijn Smet and Prof. Dr. Jan Theunis.
Harriet’s research focuses on the application of process-based review at the European Court of Human Rights and the implications thereof for legal accountability for human rights in Europe. Between January and March 2024, she conducted a research stay at the European Court of Human Rights for the purposes of her research. She is currently a managing editor of Strasbourg Obsersers Blog which she has been involved with since beginning her PhD.
Before her PhD, Harriet completed an LLM in Public International Law with a specialization in human rights law at the University of Groningen, graduating summa cum laude. Her master’s thesis was entitled: ‘Responding to Reservations to the CEDAW Convention: The Challenge of Reconciling Universal Human Rights with Local and Cultural Divergences.’
Harriet also holds a first-class honours degree in Law and Irish from University College Cork.
Education
LLM in Public International Law (Human Rights Law) – Univeristy of Groningen.
Recipient of partial scholarship ‘EU Talent Grant for Law.’
BCL Law and Irish (University College Cork) – Erasmus Student at the University of Constance.
Recipient of Quercus Entrance Scholarship for Academic Talent 2016.
Professional Activites
Doctoral Researcher, Hasselt University (Nov 2021 – Present).
Translation Internship, Fiontar and Scoil na Gaeilge (September – December 2018).
Publications
- Articles and Book Chapters
- Harriet Ní Chinnéide, ‘Balancing Privacy and the Public Interest: The application of the “General Measures” doctrine in L.B. v. Hungary in the absence of any substantive proportionality assessment,’ European Constitutional Law Review, forthcoming 2024).
- Harriet Ní Chinnéide, ‘The turn to procedure at the European Court of Human Rights: consistency and coherance in the caselaw?’ in Philip Czech et al (eds), European Yearbook of Human Rights 2022 (Intersentia 2022).
- Ignatius Yordan Nugraha and Harriet Ní Chinnéide, ‘Procedural Review, the Right to Property and Climate Change Expropriation: Quo Vadis?’ (Takings for Climate Justice and Resilience, forthcoming 2024).
- Blog Posts
- Harriet Ní Chinnéide, ‘The Expulsion of Migrants: The Court Rules in Four Cases against Denmark this September’ (Strasbourg Observers, 20 October 2023).
- Harriet Ní Chinnéide, ‘Hurbain v Belgium: Navigating the Intersection of Privacy and Press Freedom in the Digital Age’ (Strasbourg Observers, 3 October 2023).
- Harriet Ní Chinnéide, ‘L.B. v Hungary: “Where is the proportionality of the measure? It is not there. Animal Defenders has been invoked and applied in reverse.’ (Strasbourg Observers, 9 May 2023).
- Harriet Ní Chinnéide, ‘Otite v the United Kingdom: What about the incentivising function of process-based review?’ (Strasbourg Observers, 27 January 2023).
- Harriet Ní Chinneide, ‘Avci v Denmark: The expulsion of settled migrants and the pitfalls of process-based review in Strasbourg’ (Strasbourg Observers, 4 February 2022).
- Harriet Ní Chinnéide, ‘Covid-19 and the Irish Asylum Reception System,’ (Global Health Law Groningen Student Blog, December 2020.
Conference Presentations
- Harriet Ní Chinnéide and Emma Varnagy, ‘Divorcing the Substantive from the Procedural in Police Violence Cases at the ECHR: A Just Institutional Approach?’ (HRRN Conference, Ghent University, 7th December 2023)
- Harriet Ní Chinnéide and Emma Varnagy, ‘Divorcing the Substantive from the Procedural in Police Violence Cases at the ECHR: A Just Institutional Approach?’ (COI Conference: Towards just institutional approaches to conflict resolution, Utrecht University, 28 September 2023)
- Harriet Ní Chinnéide and Ignatius Yordan Nugraha, ‘Procedural Review, the Right to Property and Climate Change Expropriation: Quo Vadis?’ (ICON-S Benelux Chapter Inaugural Conference, Maastricht University, 27 October 2023).
- Harriet Ní Chinnéide and Ignatius Yordan Nugraha, ‘Procedural Review, the Right to Property and Climate Change Expropriation: Quo Vadis?’ (Takings for Climate Justice and Resilience, University of Groningen, September 2022)
- Harriet Ní Chinnéide, ‘The turn to procedure in the European Court of Human Rights: consistency and coherence in the case law?’ (COI Conference: Courts as an Arena for Societal Change, Leiden University, 8 July 2022)
- Harriet Ní Chinnéide, ‘A “Catholic” Constitutional Identity and the Legalization of Abortion in Ireland,’ (ICON-S Conference, Wroclaw University, 6 July 2022)
