Dr Alison Bisset currently teaches the following courses:

• LLB: International Children's Rights (module convenor)
• LLB: International Human Rights Law (module convenor)
• LLM: The Death Penalty (module convenor)

Dr Bisset is Director of Enterprise, with responsibility for the Law School's co-curricular and pro bono programmes.

Transitional Justice, International Criminal Law, International Children's Rights, International Judicial Cooperation.

Doctoral Supervision

Dr Bisset welcomes proposals from prospective doctoral students with an interest in transitional justice, international criminal law, international human rights law and international children's rights.

• Member of Global Law at Reading (GLAR)

Reviews:

• Book Review, Freeman, M., Truth Commissions and Procedural Fairness, (2006, CUP, Cambridge) (2008) 8 Human Rights Law Review 401-404.
• Book Review, Stover, E., and Weinstein, H.M., (eds.), My Neighbor, My Enemy: Justice and Community in the Aftermath of Mass Atrocity, (2004, CUP, Cambridge), (2005) 5 Human Rights Law Review 423-426.

Conference Papers etc:

• "Declining Standards in Truth Seeking: Lessons from Nepal", University of Bath, 16 May 2019.
• "The impact of international criminal prosecutions on national post-conflict justice initiatives", The Watershed, Bristol, 29 January 2019.
• "Does and Should International Law Prohibit the Prosecution of Children for War Crimes?" A Response to Noelle Quenivet, University of the West of England, 1 March 2017.
• "Transitional Justice and the Prioritisation of Prosecution", presented at the Centre for Law and Culture, University of St Mary's, Twickenham, 1 December 2015.
• "Transitional Justice in Nepal: Falling Short of International Standards?", presented at International Law Association Spring Conference, University of Essex, 29 May 2015.
• "Commissions of Inquiry and Procedural Fairness", presented at the ESCR funded workshop, Commissions of Inquiry: Problems and Prospects, University of Liverpool, 16 January 2015.
• "Trials and Truth Commissions", presented at the Antonio Cassese Summer School on Transitional Justice, Conflict and Human Rights, Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, Geneva, 9 July 2014.
• "The Development of International Criminal Justice", presented at the Brigade Legal Officers' Course for international military personnel, Land Warfare Centre, Warminster, 30 October 2013.
• "Trials within the Transitional Justice Framework" presented at the Africa Accountability Colloquium, International Institute for Humanitarian Law, San Remo, 6 June 2013.
• "The Jurisdiction of the International Criminal Court", presented at the Africa Accountability Colloquium, International Institute for Humanitarian Law, San Remo, 5 June 2013.
• "Coordinating Trials and Truth Commissions", presented at the Bingham Centre Experts' Meeting on Nepal, 28 May 2013.
• "Implementing ICC Statute Obligations", presented to legal and military personnel, Commonwealth Secretariat, Pretoria, 15 February 2013.
• "Complementarity and Cooperation under the ICC Statute", presented to legal and military personnel, Commonwealth Secretariat, Pretoria, 14 February 2013.
• "An Overview of the ICC's Jurisdiction", presented to legal and military personnel, Commonwealth Secretariat, Pretoria, 14 February 2013.
• "Truth Commissions and their Relationship with the International Criminal Court", Building Restorative International Justice, IC Events, Royal Commonwealth Society, 18 May 2012.
• "Coordinating the Operations of Truth Commissions and Domestic Criminal Courts under the Rome Statue Regime: Lessons from East Timor and Sierra Leone", Oxford Transitional Justice Research Conference, University of Oxford, 26 June 2009.
• "The Future Role for Truth Commissions Following the Introduction of the International Criminal Court", Conflict Research Society Annual Conference, Aston University, Birmingham, 6 September 2006.
• "The Interrelationship between Truth Commissions and Criminal Courts in the Prosecution of Serious Human Rights Violations", International Law Symposium, University of Edinburgh, 24 May 2006.