David McGrogan

Dr David McGrogan

Associate Professor

School: Northumbria School of Law

I have been working in academia since 2012, teaching and researching in the fields of international human rights law, public international law, and the law of contract. Before that, I was a Japanese-English legal translator.

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Research Themes and Scholarly Interests

My main interest is the political philosophy and sociology of human rights law. I also run the International Research Network on Critical Theory and Conservative Thought, a global, interdisciplinary group of scholars aiming to combine the insights of critical theory and conservative philosophy so as to find new things to say about our predicament.

Key Publications

Critical Theory and Human Rights: From Compassion to Coercion, McGrogan, D. 28 Apr 2021
The Population and the Individual: The Human Rights Audit as the Governmentalization of Global Human Rights Governance, McGrogan, D. 21 Jan 2019, In: International Journal of Constitutional Law
The Problem of Causality in International Human Rights Law, McGrogan, D. Jul 2016, In: International and Comparative Law Quarterly
Anti-individual morality in the international human rights system, McGrogan, D. 1 Jun 2022, In: Netherlands Quarterly of Human Rights
Measuring Human Rights Performance in the UK: Liberalism, Communitarianism, and the Equality and Human Rights Commission’s ‘Drunkard’s Search’, McGrogan, D. 26 Jul 2023, Comparative Legal Metrics, Leiden, Netherlands, Brill

PGR Supervision

Makaela Fehlhaber Towards legal certainty: An analysis and critique of how fragmentation has informed the development of modern causation in international law Start Date: 01/10/2025
Sorcha Murphy-Kinder How Does Structural Violence from Colonisation and Occupation Contribute to the Limitations of International Criminal Law in Protecting the People of Palestine? Start Date: 19/11/2024
Ludmilla Valente Viana Silva Towards a Transformative Legal Framework on Brazil’s Oil And Gas Governance Through a Gender Sensitive FPIC Start Date: 01/10/2025

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