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Dr Sabina Garahan is a Lecturer at the Essex Law School and Director of the Essex Human Rights Centre Clinic. Her research and teaching focus on international human rights law and criminal justice, particularly on issues such as arbitrary detention, access to justice, and rights of detainees. She has authored the book Detention and the Right to Liberty: Addressing Gaps in Protection at the European Court of Human Rights (Routledge, 2025), which has been praised as essential for scholars, judges, and practitioners in the field.
- Education
- PhD in Law, University of Essex (2023)
- LLM in International Human Rights Law, University of Essex (2016)
- LLB in Law with French Law, University College London (2014)
- Certificat Supérieur de Droit Français et Européen, Panthéon-Assas University, Paris (2013)
Sabina’s research spans international human rights law, criminal justice, and international humanitarian law. She has secured significant grants, including UKRI open access funding and an AHRC-CHASE Doctoral Training Partnership. Her work addresses critical issues such as immigration detention, prison conditions, judicial independence, and gender equality in justice systems. She has contributed to two OSCE/ODIHR, UNODC and OHCHR Expert Forums on criminal justice reform in Central Asia and has submitted evidence to the UK Joint Committee on Human Rights.
Scientific Awards and Grants
- UKRI open access funding for Detention and the Right to Liberty (2023)
- AHRC-CHASE Doctoral Training Partnership (2018–2023)
- iCourts/PluriCourts High-Level PhD Summer School Scholarship
She supervises PhD student Ilham Gasimov in areas including European human rights law, prisoner rights, and criminal justice. Sabina has been involved in gender equality initiatives, including the development of a toolkit for establishing associations of women judges across the OSCE region.
