Elizabeth CraigEmeritus Associate Professor
minority rights, League of Nations, minority mechanisms, minority rights monitoring, European minority rights, internalisation
Research
My research interests lie primarily within European and global minority rights law and discourse. My most recent work has focused on minority rights legislation and monitoring in Southeast Europe and Ukraine, on the right to self-identify and on the history of global minority rights law from the League of Nations to the current day.
PhD/Postgraduate Supervision
I have supervised 10 PhD students through to completion on topics ranging from minority rights, women's rights, rights of migrants, race and political cultural, right to conscientious objection, Sharia and criminal jusice, Sharia and civil process, the Gulf Cooperation Council and neurodivergence and international human rights law. These were mostly overseas students from a range of different countries and regions inlcuding Morocco, Afghanistan, Saudi Arabia and Turkey.
Select Publications
Craig, E. (forthcoming). The Respective Roles of Norms and Procedures in the 20th Century Development of Global Minority Rights Law Routledge History of the International Protection of Minorities, 1919-2001. C. Fink, J. Jackson-Preece, C. Lennox and A.-M. Bíro, Taylor & Francis/Routledge.
Craig, E. (2026). The Framework Convention for the Protection of National Minorities and the Northern Ireland Peace Process. Are Minority Rights (Still) Human Rights? M. Jovanović and A. Zdravković, Hart/Bloomsbury, pp. 59-74. ISBN 978-1-5099-8454-1.
Craig, Elizabeth (2024) Chapter 2: Twenty-Five Years of Minority Rights Monitoring in Ukraine. European Yearbook of Minority Issues Online, 21(1), 31-58. https://doi.org/10.1163/22116117_02101003
Craig, Elizabeth (2021) The framework convention for the protection of national minorities and internalisation: lessons from the Western Balkans. Review of Central and East European Law, 46 (1). pp. 1-40. ISSN 0925-9880
Craig, Elizabeth (2016) Minority rights, integration and education in the Western Balkans. Northern Ireland Legal Quarterly, 67 (4). pp. 453-471. ISSN 0029-3105
Craig, Elizabeth (2016) Who are the minorities? The role of the right to self-identity within the European minority rights framework. Journal on Ethnopolitics and Minority Issues, 15 (2). pp. 6-30. ISSN 1617-5247
Craig, Elizabeth, Efthymiou, Stratis-Andreas and O'Connell, Ciara (2014) Derry/Londonderry report on upholding the human right to culture in post-conflict societies. Project Report. Northern Ireland Human Rights Commission, Belfast.
Craig, Elizabeth (2013) A right to cultural identity in a UK Bill of Rights? European Public Law, 19 (4). pp. 689-714. ISSN 1354-3725
Craig, Elizabeth (2012) From security to justice? The development of a more justice-oriented approach to the realisation of European minority rights standards. Netherlands Quarterly of Human Rights, 30 (1). pp. 40-64. ISSN 0924-0519
Craig, Elizabeth (2010) From soft to hard law? Culture, identity and language issues within the Northern Ireland Bill of Rights process. Focaal, 2010 (56). pp. 35-48. ISSN 0920-1297
Craig, Elizabeth (2010) The framework convention for the protection of national minorities and the development of a 'generic' approach to the protection of minority rights in Europe? International Journal on Minority and Group Rights, 17 (2). pp. 307-325. ISSN 1385-4879
Craig, Elizabeth (2009) The framework convention for the protection of national minorities and the Northern Ireland bill of rights process. Northern Ireland Legal Quarterly, 60 (2). pp. 201-211. ISSN 0029-3105
Craig, Elizabeth (2007) Irish language education and the Council of Europe's minority treaties: the monitoring of developments in Northern Ireland. Northern Ireland Legal Quarterly, 58 (2). pp. 121-141. ISSN 0029-3105
Craig, Elizabeth (2003) Accommodation of Diversity in Education: A Human Rights Agenda?" Child and Family Law Quarterly, 15 (3). pp. 279-294.