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Dr David McGrogan

Associate Professor

School: Northumbria School of Law

I have been working in academia since 2012, teaching and researching in the fields of international human rights law, public international law, and the law of contract. Before that, I was a Japanese-English legal translator. 

David McGrogan

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My main interest is the political philosophy and sociology of human rights law. I also run the International Research Network on Critical Theory and Conservative Thought, a global, interdisciplinary group of scholars aiming to combine the insights of critical theory and conservative philosophy so as to find new things to say about our predicament.

  • Please visit the Pure Research Information Portal for further information
  • Critical Theory and Human Rights: From Compassion to Coercion, McGrogan, D. 28 Apr 2021
  • The Population and the Individual: The Human Rights Audit as the Governmentalization of Global Human Rights Governance, McGrogan, D. 21 Jan 2019, In: International Journal of Constitutional Law
  • The Problem of Causality in International Human Rights Law, McGrogan, D. Jul 2016, In: International and Comparative Law Quarterly
  • Anti-individual morality in the international human rights system, McGrogan, D. 1 Jun 2022, In: Netherlands Quarterly of Human Rights
  • Measuring Human Rights Performance in the UK: Liberalism, Communitarianism, and the Equality and Human Rights Commission’s ‘Drunkard’s Search’, McGrogan, D. 26 Jul 2023, Comparative Legal Metrics, Leiden, Netherlands, Brill
  • Sorcha Murphy-Kinder How Does Structural Violence from Colonisation and Occupation Contribute to the Limitations of International Criminal Law in Protecting the People of Palestine? Start Date: 19/11/2024
  • Makaela Fehlhaber Towards legal certainty: An analysis and critique of how fragmentation has informed the development of modern causation in international law Start Date: 01/10/2025
  • Ludmilla Valente Viana Silva FPIC in Oil and Gas Governance: a gender-sensitive analysis of social participation in a coastal community of Brazil. Start Date: 01/10/2025
  • English Literature BA (Hons)
  • Law LLM
  • Law PhD
  • Fellow (FHEA) Higher Education Academy (HEA)

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