Sinead Coakley
School of Justice Studies
Faculty of Arts Professional and Social Studies
Email: S.C.Coakley@ljmu.ac.uk
Sinead joined LJMU in 2022 as a Lecturer in Law and Criminal Justice in the School of Justice Studies. After graduating from her LLB in 2013, Sinead did her LLM at the National University of Ireland, Galway in International Humanitarian Law, Peace Support Operations and Conflict, before undertaking the Legal Practice Course and working in Criminal Law in London for a few years. Sinead completed her PhD in Transitional Justice responses to cultural heritage destruction at the University of Liverpool where she also taught Public Law for a number of years.
Sinead is now module leader for International Criminal Law, Skills for Success in Law and Criminal Justice, Crime, Law and Criminalisation and Sex, Crime and Society at LJMU.
Degrees
2024, University of Liverpool, United Kingdom, PhD
2015, The University of Law, United Kingdom, Legal Practice Course
2014, National University of Ireland, Galway, Ireland, LLM
2013, Nottingham Trent University, United Kingdom, LLB
Academic appointments
Lecturer in Law and Criminal Justice, Liverpool John Moores University, 2022 - present
Graduate Teaching Assistant, University of Liverpool, 2017 - 2021
Journal article
Coakley S, McAuliffe P. 2022. Picking up the pieces: Transitional justice responses to destruction of tangible cultural heritage Netherlands Quarterly of Human Rights, 40 :311-332 DOI Publisher Url Public Url
Book review
Coakley S. 2021. The Future of the Bamiyan Buddha Statues: Heritage Reconstruction in Theory and Practice edited by Masanori Nagaoka International Journal of Heritage Studies, 27