Rate My Professor Luke Moffett

Professor Luke Moffett is a Professor in the School of Law at Queen's University Belfast, holding the Chair in Human Rights and International Humanitarian Law. He obtained his LLB (Hons) in Law in 2007, LLM in Human Rights Law in 2008, and PhD in Law in 2012, all from Queen's University Belfast. His doctoral thesis, titled 'The international criminal court: justice for victims of international crimes?', was supervised by Professors T. Obokata and J. Allain. Prior to his appointment as Lecturer in the School of Law in September 2013, Moffett served as a Research Fellow on the Arts and Humanities Research Council-funded project 'Amnesties, Prosecution and the Public Interest in the Northern Ireland Transition' led by Professor Kieran McEvoy. He advanced to his current professorial position and has held administrative roles including Director of the Human Rights Centre (2015-2020), Chair of the Law School Ethics Committee (2015-2018), and Core Research Disciplinary Group Coordinator (2021-2024).

Moffett's research focuses on reparations, victims' rights, transitional justice, international humanitarian law, and human rights in armed conflict. He is the author of Justice for Victims before the International Criminal Court (Routledge, 2014) and Reparations and War (Oxford University Press, 2023), and co-editor of the second edition of the Elgar Research Handbook on Transitional Justice (Edward Elgar Publishing, 2023). He has produced over 50 journal articles and book chapters, including 'From fault to remedy: a case for a holistic approach to remedy within business and human rights' (Human Rights Quarterly, 2025, with C. Hackett) and contributions to the Netherlands Yearbook of International Law (2025). As Principal Investigator on the AHRC project 'Reparations, Responsibility and Victimhood in Transitional Societies' (2017-2022), he has engaged with victims, communities, governments, and armed groups across more than a dozen conflict-affected countries. Moffett has received the IALT Kevin Boyle Book Prize (2023), QUB Achieving Ambition Research Award (2017), Association of Law Teachers/Routledge Law and Technology Prize (2017, co-recipient), QUB Student Union Education Award for Most Innovative Learning Experience (2018), and QUB Rising Star Teaching Award (2015). He serves on the editorial boards of the Journal of International Criminal Justice and the International Journal of Human Rights, provides expert advice to UN bodies and governments, and coordinates modules such as International Humanitarian Law and International Criminal and Transitional Justice.