Yvonne McDermott Rees
Swansea University
(formerly Bangor University)
Welsh Crucible 2015
Yvonne is a Senior Lecturer in Law in Bangor University, UK, where she is also Director of Teaching and Learning and Co-Director of the Bangor Centre for International Law. She is a graduate of the National University of Ireland, Galway (B. Corp. Law, LL.B.), Leiden University (LL.M. cum laude) and the Irish Centre for Human Rights (PhD). Her research interests include human rights, international criminal law, and criminal procedure. She is the author of Fairness in International Criminal Trials (Oxford University Press, 2016) and her most recent research examines the questions surrounding evidence and fact-finding in international criminal trials. Yvonne is Series Co-Editor of the University of Wales Press series in International Law, and an Academic Fellow of the Honourable Society of the Inner Temple.
Yvonne has moved to the Hilary Rodham Clinton School of Law at Swansea University, where she has been promoted to Professor in Legal Studies.