Christine Bell
Christine Bell, FBA, FRSE, is a legal scholar, specialising in human rights law. As of 2018, she is Professor of Constitutional Law and Assistant Principal at the University of Edinburgh. Bell graduated from Selwyn College, Cambridge, with her undergraduate law degree in 1988, before completing a master of laws degree at Harvard University in 1990. She qualified as a Barrister in that year and, after passing the New York bar examination, she worked at Debevoise & Plimpton. She was then Director of the Centre for International and Comparative Human Rights Law at Queen's University Belfast from 1997 to 1999, and then Professor of Public International Law at the University of Ulster from 2000 to 2011. One of Bell's most notable contributions is the concept of the lex pacificatoria.Honours
In 2015, Bell was elected a Fellow of the British Academy, the United Kingdom's national academy for the humanities and social sciences. In 2019 she was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh.Selected works
- Tall Stories?: Reading Law and Literature.
- Learning Legal Skills.
- Peace Agreements and Human Rights.
- On the Law of Peace: Peace Agreements and the Lex Pacificatoria
- Chronology of Mindanao Peace Agreements.
- Chronology of the Peace Process and Peace Agreements between the Philippines and the National Democratic Front.
- A Chronology of Colombian Peace Processes and Peace Agreements.
- Interim Constitutions in Post-Conflict Settings.
- Governance and Law: The Distinctive Context of Transitions from Conflict and its Consequences for Development Interventions
- Unsettling Bargains?: Power-sharing and the Inclusion of Women in Peace Negotiations.
- Text and Context: Evaluating Peace Agreements for their "Gender Perspective".
- Constitution-Building in Political Settlement Processes: The Quest for Inclusion.
- Transitional Justice.
- Sequencing Peace Agreements and Constitutions in the Political Settlement Process.
