Dr Kirsteen Shields
Lecturer in International Law and Food Security
- Global Academy of Agriculture and Food Security
Contact details
- Tel: +44 (0)131 650 6095
- Email: Kirsteen.Shields@ed.ac.uk
Address
- Street
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Global Academy of Agriculture and Food Security
The University of Edinburgh - City
- Easter Bush, Midlothian
- Post code
- EH25 9RG
Background
Kirsteen Shields is a human rights law expert with a PhD in international law and governance. She is a lecturer in international law and food security at the University of Edinburgh, at the Global Academy of Agriculture and Food Security. She was the recipient of the Royal Society of Edinburgh / Fulbright award for research on food and land reform at Berkeley, University of California 2017/18.
She has published on international human rights law, corporate compliance, European human rights law, UK constitutional law in the contexts of land reform, labour rights and ‘ethical trade’ systems. She has led and authored research for the World Bank, the Scottish Land Commission, the Scottish Parliament, and others. She has extensive experience of teaching on human rights law at European, international and UK levels at postgraduate and undergraduate law.
Research Projects
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Brexit, Rights and Devolution
DOI: https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3321685
Research output: › Working paper (Published) -
Rights and Devolution after Brexit
DOI: https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3274729
Research output: › Working paper (Published) -
Human Rights and the Work of the Scottish Land Commission
(18 pages)
Research output: › Commissioned report (Published) -
The Minimum Core Obligations of Economic, Social and Cultural Rights: The Rights to Health and Education
(27 pages)
Research output: › Commissioned report (Published) -
Methods of Monitoring the Right to Food
(20 pages)
DOI: https://doi.org/10.4337/9781785367793
Research output: › Chapter (peer-reviewed) (Published) -
McMaster and Others v. The Scottish Ministers: The Tenant Farmers Case, (casenote)
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Review article (Published) -
Human Rights and Brexit: Position paper for SULNE (Scottish Universities Legal Network on Europe)
Research output: › Discussion paper (Published) -
The Land Reform (Scotland) Bill and Human Rights: Key Points and Recommendations
DOI: https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.2698578
Research output: › Working paper (Published) -
Re-writing the Centricity of the State in the Pursuit of Global Justice
(20 pages)
Research output: › Chapter (peer-reviewed) (Published)