Kate Murphy is a doctoral researcher at Ghent University and KU Leuven under the supervision of Prof. Clara Burbano Hererra (supervisor) and Prof. Tom Daems (co-supervisor). Her PhD research, funded by the Research Foundation Flanders (FWO), focuses on the impact of interim measures issued under the Inter-American Human Rights System to protect people in detention in El Salvador and Nicaragua. This research links to the large-scale ERC-funded project ‘IMPACTUM’: Assessing the IMPACT of Urgent Measures in protecting at-risk detainees in Latin America’.
Kate holds an LLM in Public International Law from the University of Groningen (the Netherlands). In 2021, she won the Hanneke Steenbergen Scriptieprijs for the best master’s thesis in the Netherlands in the field of migration law, focusing on how Frontex could operate its border management of EU external borders in a way which upholds the Union’s international human rights law obligations in the area of migration and asylum.
Previously, she was a student assistant for the REPP Project (Rethinking Public Interests in Private Relationships) and a research intern for the FRICoRe (Fundamental Rights in Courts and Regulation) funded by the Justice Programme of the EU. Currently, she is Editorial Assistant for the Law & Criminology (LCJ) Journal.
Her research interests include ensuring the effectiveness of human rights, the relationships of States with human rights bodies and the prevention of torture and ill-treatment.
° 2021: Hanneke Steenbergen Scriptieprijs : best master’s thesis in the Netherlands in the field of migration law
