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Dr Emily Kakoullis

Lecturer in Law

Email
kakoullise@cardiff.ac.uk
Telephone
+44 (0)29 2087 5082
Campuses
3.12, Law Building, Museum Avenue, Cardiff, CF10 3AX

Overview

Dr Emily Julia Kakoullis is a Lecturer at Cardiff School of Law and Politics. She specialises in International Disability Human Rights Law focusing on the United Nations (UN) Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD). Dr Kakoullis teaches on the LLM programme (see Teaching). Prior to taking up this role she was a Research Fellow at the University of Exeter.

Dr Kakoullis has published on the UN CRPD (see Publications), edited together with Professor Kelley Johnson a collection on the CRPD Recognising human rights in different cultural contexts: the United Nations convention on the rights of persons with disabilities , and is on the Editorial Board for the International Journal of Disability and Social Justice .

Biography

Education and Qualifications

Professional memberships

Academic positions

  • Research Fellow, University of Exeter

Speaking engagements

Committees and reviewing

Publications

2021

2020

2019

2018

  • Kakoullis, E. and Ikehara, Y. 2018. Article 1 purpose. In: Bantekas, I., Stein, M. A. and Anastasiou, D. eds. The Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities: A Commentary. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, pp. 35-62.

2017

Teaching

LLM modules:

Supervision:

  • Supervision of LLM Dissertations

Teaching academic affiliations & training:

  • Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (FHEA)

Research Interests:

  • International Disability Human Rights Law, focusing on the United Nations (UN) Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD);
  • The interaction between the UN CRPD and domestic cultural contexts;
  • Participation and inclusion of persons with disabilities;
  • Monitoring mechanisms designed to serve persons with disabilities and the implementation of Article 16 - Freedom from exploitation, violence and abuse (CRPD 2006).

Research Centres

Supervision

Past projects