The core focus of Alice鈥檚 research is the UN Human Rights Council鈥檚 Universal Periodic Review, assessing its operation and making recommendations for its improvement, alongside evaluating its impact on the ground. Currently, Alice is working on the UPR in terms of the following issues:
Alice is also working on a project titled 鈥榃orking-Class Academics: Improving Experiences in Higher Education鈥�. This project aims to identify the intersectional experiences of working-class staff and students, with the core objective to improve the working and studying environment across academia in the UK.
Alice welcomes proposals for doctoral research in the areas of international human rights, the Universal Periodic Review mechanism, women鈥檚 rights, and capital punishment.
Alice鈥檚 current supervision is as follows:
- Melisa Oleschuk: Examining Civil Society鈥檚 Role in Translating International Human Rights into Domestic Legal Change: The ACLU鈥檚 Campaign for Smart Justice and the UN鈥檚 Universal Periodic Review (funded by )
- Maria Oliviera: Human Trafficking in Portugal and the UN Universal Periodic Review (funded by
Selected Publications
- Damian Etone, Amna Nazir, and Alice Storey (eds),听Human Rights and the UN Universal Periodic Review Mechanism: A Research Companion听(Forthcoming Routledge 2023).
- Storey A, 鈥業mproving Recommendations from the UN鈥檚 Universal Periodic Review: A Case Study on Domestic Abuse in the UK鈥� Pace International Law Review (Forthcoming Spring 2023).
- Storey A, 鈥楾he USA鈥檚 Engagement with the UN鈥檚 Human Rights Committee on the Question of Capital Punishment鈥�, 17 Intercultural Human Rights Law Review 53 (2022).
- Storey A, 鈥楴ational Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, Washington D.C., USA鈥�, in, Adam Lynes, Craig Kelly and James Treadwell (eds)50 Dark Destinations: A Criminological Analysis of Contemporary Tourism (Bristol University Press 2022).
- Storey A & Eccleston-Turner M, 鈥楾ransparency, Accountability, and Legitimacy in the United Nations鈥� Human Rights Council鈥檚 Universal Periodic Review鈥�, in, Salvador Santino Regilme Jr. & Irene Hadiprayitno (eds) Human Rights at Risk: Rethinking International Institutions, American Power, and the Future of Dignity (Rutgers University Press, 2022).
- Storey A, 鈥楥hallenges and Opportunities for the UN Universal Periodic Review: A Case Study on Capital Punishment in the USA鈥�, 90 UMKC Law Review 129 (2021).
- Storey A, 鈥楢 Tale of Two Realities: Foreign Nationals, Consular Assistance, and the Death Penalty in the USA鈥�, 15 Charleston Law Review 459 (2021).听
- Yorke J & Storey A, 鈥楾owards a World Without the Death Penalty鈥�, in, Peter Stearns (ed) Routledge Handbook on Death (2020).
- Storey A, 鈥楨ngaging with the UN Human Rights Council鈥檚 Universal Periodic Review as an Academic鈥� Juris Poiesis, Vol. 23, No. 32, 662-664 (2020).
- Storey A, 鈥淎ustin Sarat听(ed.),听Human Rights and Legal Judgments: The American Story鈥�, Human Rights Law Review, Volume 19, Issue 1, 28 February 2019, 193鈥�198.
Selected Reports
UPR Project at BCU Stakeholder Reports
See听a full list of UPR Project at BCU Reports.
- Storey A, Nazir A, & Yorke J, 鈥楪ermany Universal Periodic Review Stakeholder Submission鈥�, The UPR Project at BCU (2023).
- Storey A, Nazir A, & Yorke J, 鈥楯apan Universal Periodic Review Stakeholder Submission鈥�, The UPR Project at BCU (2022).
- Storey A, Nazir A, & Yorke J, 鈥楯apan Universal Periodic Review Stakeholder Submission鈥�,听The UPR Project at BCU听(2022).
- Storey A et. al., 鈥楿nited Kingdom Universal Periodic Review Stakeholder Submission鈥�, The UPR Project at BCU (2022).
- Brigag茫o Natalia et. al., 鈥楤razil Universal Periodic Review Stakeholder Submission鈥�, The UPR Project at BCU (2022).
- Storey A, Nazir A, & Yorke J, 鈥楨swatini Universal Periodic Review Stakeholder Submission鈥�,听The UPR Project at BCU听(2021).
- Storey A, Nazir A, & Yorke J, 鈥楴amibia Universal Periodic Review Stakeholder Submission鈥�,听The UPR Project at BCU听(2020).
- Storey A, et. al., 鈥楿nited States Universal Periodic Review Stakeholder Submission鈥�,听The UPR Project at BCU听(2020).
Other Reports
- Centre for Women鈥檚 Justice, 鈥楧ouble Standard: Ending the Unjust Criminalisation of Victims of Violence Against Women and Girls鈥� (2022).
