Aisling Parkes
Biography
Dr Aisling Parkes specialises in researching and teaching in Children’s Rights, Child Law, International Disability Law and Sports Law. Her interdisciplinary research incorporates a range of areas which include the rights of children with parents in prison in collaboration with Dr Fiona Donson. Most recently, Aisling and her colleague Dr Fiona Donson compiled an edited collection entitled Parental Imprisonment and Children’s Rights (due to be published by Routledge in 2021). Aisling has also conducted research in a range of other areas of children’s rights including adoption law and practice and the implementation of Article 12 CRC. She has a substantial number of internationally peer reviewed publications on children’s rights. Her book- Children and International Human Rights Law: The Right of the Child to be Heard was published by Routledge-Cavendish in 2013 and focusses on the legal implementation internationally of the voice of the child including the right to freedom of expression. Aisling has been actively involved in the design and delivery of a course on Article 12 and listening to children to legal professionals and members of the judiciary across Europe for the past number of years. She is a founding member and co-director of the Sports Law Clinic at the School of Law, UCC.