Joe Finnerty
Joe Finnerty graduated with a Joint Bachelor in Law and History from the University of Glasgow (LLB) in 2017 and a Master of Laws in International European Law from Ghent University (LLM) in 2019. He then went on to practise civil litigation, qualifying as a solicitor in Scotland in 2021, appearing before sheriff courts across Scotland.
Before joining the Academy as a Postdoctoral Researcher, Joe was a PhD Candidate and Research/Teaching Assistant at the Centre for Fundamental Rights, Hertie School (Berlin). His doctoral dissertation examined the response of the European Court of Human Rights to the third wave of autocratisation, with a particular focus on ulterior purpose doctrine under Article 18 of the European Convention on Human Rights. He has published across various human rights law journals and blogs on this topic as well as issues of evidence and remedies in international human rights law. During his doctoral studies, he completed research stays at the Centre for International and European Studies (University of Strasbourg) and the European University Institute (Florence).
Joe has taught at universities in Berlin, Glasgow, Mainz, and Vilnius. His teaching focus concerns public international law and international human rights law broadly understood. He is a firm believe in practice orientated teaching, particularly legal clinic projects and moot courts. Inspired by his own research, he also regularly employs comparative methodologies in his approach to teaching.