Dr Michael Addo
Extension: 3198
Telephone: 01392 723198
Senior Lecturer
Profile
Dr Michael K. Addo researches and teaches international human rights law with a particular interest in the broad area of evidence-based human rights law. His recent work on The Legal Nature of International Human Rights Law (Nijhoff) 2010 is in this tradition and so also is his work on human rights and transnational corporations. Dr Addo’s has acted as consultant or resource person for a variety of institutions including the UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights and the International Commission of Jurist. He has also lectured at leading institutions including the International Institute of Human Rights (Strasbourg), Universities of Milan, Padova, Connecticut and Paris XI.
Dr Addo is currently Director of Postgraduate Studies and Director of the LLM in International and Comparative Public Law. He has previously acted as Associate Dean of the Faculty of Postgraduate Studies and Director of Access and Admissions. He teaches on the undergraduate module in Public International Law whilst at postgraduate level he teaches International Human Rights Law, the European Convention on Human Rights and Human Rights and International Business Policy. He currently supervises four doctoral students and will welcome applications for doctoral research on topics that fall in the areas of his research interest.
Teaching
Undergraduate:
Public International Law
Postgraduate:
Human Rights and International Business Policy
European Convention on Human Rights
International Human Rights Law
