Thérèse Murphy

Thérèse Murphy is professor of law and director of the Health & Human Rights Unit at Queen’s University Belfast. She is also a member of the European Group on Ethics in Science and New Technologies. Within the Global Campus of Human Rights, she is the Chairperson of the European Master's on Human Rights and Democratisation, the GC Human Rights Preparedness Founding Editor, and a member of the GC Council.
A former Fulbright fellow, she studied law at University College Dublin and the University of Cambridge, and was admitted to the bar at King’s Inns, Dublin. Her field of expertise is human rights law and practice, with particular interests in health, science and technology, and human rights method.
She is a member of the editorial board of the Human Rights Law Review, associate editor of BMC International Health & Human Rights and co-editor of the Bloomsbury/Hart book series, Law and Health. She sits on the Moral & Ethical Advisory Group established by the UK’s Department of Health and Social Care.