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Morag Goodwin is an Associate Professor in International Law.

Morag's primary research interest lies in the field of international law, in particular critical approaches to international law. She conducts research and teaches in the areas of development, participation, non-state actors and human rights in norm generation and implementation. She is interested in questions of legitimacy, in relation to the exclusion of non-state actors, the dominance of human rights, technology regulation and issues of global law.

Her current research is focused on the Roma, examining questions of the role of law in maintaining and enforcing exclusion and of legal empowerment. In particular, she is interested in the way in which Romani individuals and communities interact with and are acted upon by the law. Additional aspects of her research in relation to the Roma are focused on European Union integration efforts.

A further strand of her research relates to the regulation of technology, notably in the area of technology transfer, and human rights and ethics in relation to technology regulation questions. She is the co-author (with Roger Brownsword) of the CUP Law in Context book, Law and the Techologies of the Twenty-First Century (2012).

Morag is also leader of the Erasmus Mundus-funded project EDOLAD ('European Doctorate in Law and Development'), heading a consortium of European and non-European partners to establish a joint doctoral programme in the field of Law & Development.

In addition, she is involved in Tilburg Law School's global law project.

In the Bachelor programme, Dr. Goodwin teaches and co-ordinates:

• Fundamental Rights in the European Union (3rd year)
• Introduction to International and European Law (Liberal Arts, 2nd year)
• Law & Development Topklas (Honours programme, 3rd year)

In the Master programme, she teaches in the course:

• Human Rights: current issues
• Minority Rights and Indigenous Peoples

Information on all courses is available via electronic blackboard.

From September 2013, Dr. Goodwin will teach the following courses in the new Global Law Bachelor:

• Introduction to International and European Law
• Perspectives on Law (Legal Rhetoric and Reasoning)

In November 2012, Dr. Goodwin was a visiting professor in the global law program at Direito GV, Sao Paolo.

Dr. Goodwin has previously taught courses on general human rights, practical experience in human rights, law & development, minority rights, and foreign policy making and collective security at Maastricht University. These courses were taught both within the Law Faculty and within other faculties at Maastricht. Morag has also taught at Hogeschools in Maastricht.

Dr. Goodwin has taught at a summer course at the Faculty of Law, Gadjah Mada University, Indonesia in July 2007; as well as participating in various courses at Osgoode Hall Law School, Toronto, in the context of her visiting fellowship in 2008.