Rate My Professor Lauren Dempster

Dempster holds an AHRC Research, Development and Engagement Fellowship for her project on forensic scientists and knowledge production in transitional justice, an interest stemming from her PhD research. Key publications include her monograph Transitional Justice and the 'Disappeared' of Northern Ireland: Silence, Memory, and the Construction of the Past (Routledge, 2019), shortlisted for the Hart-SLSA Book Prize for Early Career Academics (2020); Green Transitional Justice, co-authored with Dr Rachel Killean (Taylor & Francis, 2025), winner of the Law and Society Association of Australia and New Zealand's Book Prize (2025); and as editor, Elgar Concise Encyclopedia of Law and Peace (forthcoming 2025). She has contributed chapters such as 'Storying participation: memoir, victim engagement, and 'quiet' transitional justice' in The Cambridge Handbook of Victim Engagement in Transitional Justice (2025). Awards also include the Senator George J. Mitchell Institute Sabbatical Fellowship (2022). Dempster serves on the editorial advisory board of the Journal of Disappearance Studies, peer reviews for the International Journal of Transitional Justice, organizes the School of Law Friday Seminar Series, and delivers invited lectures on greening transitional justice. Her scholarship contributes to UN Sustainable Development Goal 16: Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions.