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Claire Breen | |
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| Occupation | Professor (Law) |
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| Alma mater | University of Nottingham |
| Thesis | The standard of the best interests of the child as a tradition of Western inconsistencies (1999) |
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| Main interests | Children's rights law,international human rights |
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Breen has a Bachelor of Civil Law from University College Cork,and an LLM (International Law) from the University of Nottingham. [1] After a PhD titled The standard of the best interests of the child as a tradition of Western inconsistencies at the University of Nottingham in 1999, [2] Breen moved to the University of Waikato,rising to full professor in 2019. [3]
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