Colin Smith
Adjunct Lecturer
School of Law,
House 39,
New Square,
Trinity College,
Dublin 2
Law Library,
145-151 Church Street,
Dublin 7.
DX 818232.
Tel: 01 8177730
Fax: 01 8174901
Email: smithc3 at tcd.ie
Areas of Interest:
International law, Irish and European asylum law, international criminal procedure and international humanitarian law
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Biography
Colin Smith is a graduate of Trinity College Dublin and the Honorable Society of King's Inns. He practises as a barrister in the field of human rights law and specialises in asylum and immigration litigation. He has worked in Chambers at the Special Court for Sierra Leone and in the War Crimes Division of the Office of the Prosecutor at the Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina in Sarajevo. He conducts legal research for the Economic and Social Research Institute and the Human Rights Institute of the International Bar Association. He has published articles on Irish and European asylum law, international criminal procedure and international humanitarian law. He is Treasurer of the Irish Society of International Law and is a member of the Irish Red Cross Society’s Overseas Working Group and the Irish branch of the International Law Association.
Professional Qualifications
BL 2007
ICRC Diploma in International Humanitarian Law 2007
MLitt (Dub) 2006
LLB (Dub) 2003
Representations
Member, Irish Red Cross Overseas Working Group, 2011
Treasurer, Irish Society of International Law, 2010
Chairman, Irish Society of International Law, 2009
Education Details
BL (King’s Inns) 2007
ICRC Diploma in International Humanitarian Law 2007
MLitt (Dub) 2006
LLB (Dub) 2003
Employment Details
Adjunct lecturer in law, 2011
Barrister-at-Law, 2008 to date
Special Court for Sierra Leone 2007
Institute for International Integration Studies 2005-2006
Publications
C Smith, ‘International Humanitarian Law in Subsidiary Protection Applications’ (2010) 5(1) The Researcher 2
C Smith, ‘Special Agreements to Apply the Geneva Conventions in Internal Armed Conflicts: The Lessons of Darfur’ in J Allain and S Mullally (eds) Irish Yearbook of International Law 2007 (Hart Oxford 2009) 91
C Smith, ‘Common Article 3 of the Geneva Conventions as a Minimum Standard in International Humanitarian Law’ (2005) 13 Irish Student Law Review 168