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Dr Kasey McCall-Smith

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Biography

Kasey joined the Open University as a Lecturer in Law in 2013. She holds a Bachelor of Arts (Architectural Studies) and a Juris Doctor (US law degree) from the University of Arkansas as well as an LLM and a PhD from the University of Edinburgh. She is a US qualified lawyer where she practiced law for five years before commencing her PhD.

Kasey completed her PhD in Public International Law immediately prior to joining the Open University. Throughout her PhD, Kasey tutored and lectured at the University of Edinburgh Law School across several subjects including: Public International Law, Human Rights Law, Business Law and Family Law. She continues to deliver lectures and LLM seminars in Public International Law and International Human Rights outwith the Open University.

In addition to her work at the Open University, Kasey serves as the Peer Review Coordinator for the Extractive Industries Source Book, a joint project of the World Bank Group, a global consortium of universities led by the University of Dundee, and non-governmental organizations.

 

 

Teaching interests

  • Public international law
  • International human rights law
  • Public law
  • Relationships, families and the law
  • Corporate social responsibility

Research interests

My primary research interests concern public international law and how human rights challenge the traditional Westphalian paradigm, particularly in relation to the expression of human rights obligations in treaties and other internatonal regimes. I am also interested in comparative legal education.

External contributions

Articles                                                                                                                          McCall-Smith, K.L. (2012), ‘Global Business Practices and Human Rights: New Directions’ [2012] Business Law Forum 313-351.
McCall-Smith, K.L. (2012), 'The Determinative Function of Human Rights Treaty Bodies’  54 German Yearbook of International Law 521-563.
McCall-Smith, K.L. (2010), ‘The European Voice in International Human Rights’ 1(3) Edinburgh Student Law Review 31.
McCall-Smith, K.L. (2010), 'Finding the Rights Balance' [August/September] Foreign Direct Investment 78.
 
Chapters
Boyle, A.E. and McCall-Smith, K.L. (forthcoming Nov 2013), 'Transparency in International Law-Making' in A. Bianchi and A. Peters (eds), Transparency in International Law (CUP). 

McCall-Smith, K.L. (2012), ‘Keeping Promises? Obama on Human Rights’ in G. Scott Smith (ed), Obama, US Politics, and Transatlantic Relations: Change or Continuity? (Peter Lang).

Selected conference presentations

'Severing Invalid Reservations: A Paradigm Shift in International Law' at American Society of International Law Mid-year Meeting and Research Forum, Athens, Georgia, USA, 19 - 21 October 2012.
‘Treaty Body Jurisprudence in the Space Between’ at Transnational Law in Flux, Faculty of Law, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland, 9 – 10 June 2011.
‘Domestic Consideration of Treaty Body General Comments’ at International Law: the Trickle Down Effect, University of Edinburgh, 4 – 6 May 2011.
‘Back to the Roots: a Rights Primer for a New Era’ at The Obama Effect: Transatlantic Perspectives Past and Future, Middelburg Center for Transatlantic Studies, Middelburg, the Netherlands, 27 – 30 October 2010.