Qualifications

BA (Hons.) English and American Literature and History, University of Kent, 2002 (First class)

LLM International Law, University of Liverpool, 2007 (Distinction)

PhD in Law, University of Liverpool, 2013

Career History

2012-date: Lecturer/Senior Lecturer/Associate Professor, Northumbria Law School

2007-2012: Freelance Japanese to English legal translator and editor

2007-2008: Head of English, For B English, Yokohama, Japan

2003-2006: English Language Instructor, ECC, Yokohama, Japan

Other Appointments

2023-date: Knapp Foundation Fellow (permanent)

2016-2017: Visiting Research Fellow, Sussex Centre for Human Rights Research, University of Sussex

Publications

Monographs

D. McGrogan, Critical Theory and Human Rights: From Compassion to Coercion (Manchester University Press, 2021)

Articles and Book Chapters

D. McGrogan, “Quantifying ‘Formal’ and ‘Substantive’ Equality in the UK: The Drunkard’s Search”, in M. Infantino and M. Bussani (eds.) Comparative Legal Metrics: Quantification of Performance as a Regulatory Technique (in press, Brill, 2023)

D. McGrogan, “Anti-Individual Morality in the International Human Rights System” 40 (2) Netherlands Quarterly of Human Rights (2022) 83

D. McGrogan, “‘It is inarguable that what happened under these regulations amounts to a deprivation of liberty’: Dolan v Secretary of State for Health and Social Care” Public Law [October 2021] 671

D. McGrogan, “The Population and the Individual: The Human Rights Audit as the Governmentalization of Global Human Rights Governance” 16 (4) International Journal of Constitutional Law (2018) 1073

D. McGrogan, “The Problem of Causality in International Human Rights Law” 65 (3) International & Comparative Law Quarterly (2016) 615

D. McGrogan, “Human Rights Indicators and the Sovereignty of Technique” 27 (2) European Journal of International Law (2016) 385

D. McGrogan, “On the Interpretation of Human Rights Treaties and Subsequent Practice” 32 (4) Netherlands Quarterly of Human Rights (2014) 347

D. McGrogan, “A Shift in Japan’s Stance on Indigenous Rights and Its Implications” 17 (2) International Journal of Minority and Group Rights (2010) 355

Edited Collections

M. Beckstein and D. McGrogan, The Conservative Critique of Liberalism (forthcoming, Elgar, 2024)

S. Kirste, D. McGrogan, M. Sellers, and I. Tourkochiriti, Research Handbook on Critiquing Rights (forthcoming, Elgar, 2024)

Prizes

International Society of Public Law Prize for Best Paper, 2019 (for D. McGrogan, “The Population and the Individual: The Human Rights Audit as the Governmentalization of Global Human Rights Governance” 16 (4) International Journal of Constitutional Law (2018) 1073)

Recent Invited Presentations

“On Tyranny and Raison du Monde”, Entrenching a Global Health Emergency Mode: Implications for Health and Human Rights Law, University College Dublin (2023)

“Critical Theory and Human Rights: From Compassion to Coercion”, book discussion panel at University of Lund (2023)

“‘The End of a World’: Human Rights in the Biosecurity State”, Governance Stream, SLSA Annual Conference (2022)

“The Right Not to Be Exposed to Pornography”, 10th Budapest Visual Learning Conference, Hungarian Academy of Sciences (2022)

“Quantifying Human Rights Performance in the UK: The Drunkard’s Search”, Workshop on Comparative Legal Metrics, 21st General Congress of the International Academy of Comparative Law, Universidad Nacional de Ascunsion (2022)

“Human Rights: Between the City and the Flock” – Human Rights Centre Seminar Series, Durham Law School (2020)

“What Can the Common Law Teach Us?” - Seminar Series on Legal Education, Newcastle Law School (2019)

Research Leadership

Founder and Convenor, International Research Network on Critical Theory and Conservative Thought (founded 2020)

Workshop Organiser, The Conservative Critique of Liberalism (2023)

Conference Organiser, 1st Annual Conference on Conservatism and Critical Theory (2021)

Panel Convenor, Law, Politics and Ideology Stream, SLSA Annual Conference (2019)

Conference Organiser, Conservatism, Law and Society (2018)

Conference Organiser, Iraq: Legal and Political Legacies (2016)

Research Funding/Knowledge Exchange

PI, UK Equality and Human Rights Commission, 2018 (£18,000)

Co-I, SLS Small Grants Scheme, 2016 (£2,500)

Co-I, UK Equality and Human Rights Commission, 2014 (£32,000)

PI, AHRC Individual Doctoral Award, 2008 (£48,000)

Teaching

Module tutor, GDL Contract Law, 2016-present

Module tutor, LLB Contract Law, 2019-present

Module tutor, Solicitor Higher Apprenticeship Contract Law, 2021-present

Module tutor, LLB Public International Law, 2014-2021

Other teaching experience: public law, international human rights law, the law of international trade, international commercial law, carriage of goods

Academic Leadership

Acting Deputy Head of Department, Northumbria Law School, 2022-23

Head of Undergraduate Programmes, Northumbria Law School, 2021-present

Research and Enterprise Development Lead, Northumbria Law School, 2018-2021

Programme Leader, LLB Part Time and LLB Distance Learning, Northumbria Law School, 2015-2018

Reviewing

Oxford University Press, Irish Research Council, Edward Elgar Press, European Journal of International Law, European Journal of International Relations, Global Intellectual History, New South Wales Law Journal, International Human Rights Law Review

Other

Fluent Japanese