Alice is an international and comparative lawyer focusing on human rights and humanitarian law, and has a regional specialism in the Middle East and particularly Palestine. Her work also explores land and property law issues linked to her core research themes. Her teaching reflects both her research interests and applied work outside academia.

Alice's monograph, Truth and Transitional Justice: Localising the International Legal Framework in Muslim Majority Legal Systems (Hart, 2022), investigates synergies between international law and Islamic law in furthering truth-seeking, the formation of collective memories and the victims’ right to know the truth, as key aims of the international paradigm of transitional justice and broadly supported by the shari’ah.

Current and recent projects have attracted funding from ESRC-IAA, AHRC and the Society of Legal Scholars. 

Between 2020-24 she led, as PI, a project funded by AHRC (reference: AH/T007540/1) that seeks to better understand the humanitarian impact of continued forcible transfer of Palestinian Bedouin communities living in E1, Jerusalem, and how impunity for violations of international law contributes to the deterioration of humanitarian vulnerabilities. Among the key outputs, Alice was lead co-editor of the project book Ending Impunity for International Law Violations: Palestinian Bedouins and the Risk of Forced Displacement (Hart, 2025). 

The initial project was enhanced by a follow-on project also funded by the AHRC-FoF (reference: AH/W006782/1) in 2021-2024, which delivered a range of digital outputs produced in collaboration with a Palestinian media company. The leading output was a documentary film, We Will Remain, which has been included in the official selection of numerous film festivals across the globe.  

Current teaching:

Legal Skills and Methods (LLB - L1)

International Criminal and Transitional Justice (LLB - L3)

International Human Rights Law (LLM) 

Past teaching:

Human Rights Theories (LLM) (module coordinator)

Counter-terrorism and Human Rights (LLM)

Contemporary Issues in Property Law (LLB)

Contemporary Issues in Property Law (MLaw) (module coordinator)

Land Law (MLaw) (module coordinator)

Alice is a Reader at the School of Law. She joined QUB as a Lecturer in law in 2017 and became a Senior Lecturer in 2021. 

Prior to joining QUB Alice worked at Warwick University and outside academia on human rights and international law issues in the Middle East. She holds a PhD in law and a Postgraduate Certificate in Academic Practice from Durham University, an LLM from SOAS, and a law degree from Turin University.

Alice is half-English and half-Italian - but neither fully. 

From 2024 Alice is the PhD Admissions and Awards Coordinator for the School of Law. Previously, she was the PhD Programme Coordinator, and prior to that the Assistant PhD Programme Coordinator.