Eithne Dowds

Research output

Research output per year 2015 2018 2020 2022 2022

• 10 Other contribution
• 8 Other report
• 7 Article
• 5 Chapter (peer-reviewed)
• 10 More
  • 3 Commissioned report
  • 3 Digital or Visual Products
  • 2 Book
  • 2 Book/Film/Article review

Research output per year

Research output per year

Search results

• 2022

  'I presume she wanted it to happen’: Rape, Reasonable Belief in Consent, and Law Reform in Northern Ireland

  Dowds, E., 24 Feb 2022, In: Northern Ireland Legal Quarterly. 73, AD1, p. 74-102 29 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  Open Access

  File

  • Rape 100%
  • Belief 66%
  • Beliefs 66%
  • Legal Procedure 50%
  • UK 50%
  52 Downloads (Pure)

• New Methodologies in Feminist Legal Studies: Legislative Drafting Project: Workshop Report

  Dowds, E., Killean, R. & Hoyt, M., 14 Mar 2022, QUB School of Law. 10 p.

  Research output: Book/Report › Other report

  Open Access

  File
  100 Downloads (Pure)

• Rape Law and Policy: Persistent Challenges and Future Directions

  Dowds, E. & Agnew, E., Sep 2022, Rape: Challenging Contemporary Thinking – 10 Years On. Horvath, M. & Brown, J. (eds.). Routledge, p. 175-188 13 p.

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter (peer-reviewed) › peer-review

• Redefining consent: rape law reform, reasonable belief and communicative responsibility

  Dowds, E., 29 Nov 2022, (Early online date) In: Journal of Law and Society. 24 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  Open Access

  File

  • Rape 100%
  • Interaction 33%
  • Legal Reform 33%
  • Responsibility 33%
  • Adoption 33%
  103 Downloads (Pure)

• Sexual Violence in the Digital Age: Replicating and Augmenting Harm, Victimhood and Blame

  Killean, R., McAlinden, A-M. & Dowds, E., Dec 2022, In: Social and Legal Studies. 31, 6, p. 871-892 22 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  Open Access

  File

  • Violence 100%
  • Technology 50%
  • Offender 33%
  • Understanding 33%
  • Complexity 16%
  98 Downloads (Pure)
• 2021

  Putting Sexual Violence on Trial: Challenges and Future Directions

  Dowds, E., McAlinden, A-M. & Killean, R., 15 Apr 2021, Sexual Violence on Trial: Local and Comparative Perspectives. Routledge

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter (peer-reviewed) › peer-review

• Sexual Offence Trials in Northern Ireland: The Cultural and Legal Dimensions

  Killean, R., Dowds, E. & McAlinden, A-M., 15 Apr 2021, Sexual Violence on Trial: Local and Comparative Perspectives. Routledge

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter (peer-reviewed) › peer-review

• Sexual Violence on Trial: Local and Comparative Perspectives

  Killean, R. (ed.), Dowds, E. (ed.) & McAlinden, A-M. (ed.), 01 Apr 2021, Routledge.

  Research output: Book/Report › Book

• Workshop Report: Revisiting Sexual Consent and the Law

  Dowds, E., 02 Jul 2021, 24 p.

  Research output: Book/Report › Other report

  Open Access

  File

  • Consent 100%
  • Prosecution 50%
  • Project 50%
  • Associations 50%
  • Workshop 50%
  124 Downloads (Pure)
• 2020

  Consent, Autonomy and Coercion: A Response to Robin West

  Dowds, E., 06 May 2020, 9 p. MLR Forum.

  Research output: Other contribution

  • Consent 100%
  • Introspection 33%
  • Persuasive Communication 33%
  • Sex 33%
  • Conversation 33%

• Consent to serious harm for sexual gratification: not a defence. Response to the Department of Justice public consultation

  Dowds, E. (ed.), Craig, S. (ed.), Agnew, E. (ed.), Cowan, R., Hoyt, M. & Granacka, J., 21 Dec 2020, QUB Human Rights Centre. 18 p.

  Research output: Book/Report › Other report

  Open Access

  File
  915 Downloads (Pure)

• Feminist Engagement with International Criminal Law: Norm Transfer, Complementarity, Rape and Consent

  Dowds, E., 23 Jan 2020, 1 ed. Oxford: Hart Publishing. 280 p. (Series in International Law)

  Research output: Book/Report › Book

  Open Access

  File

  • Rape 100%
  • Definition 50%
  • Courts 40%
  • Crime 40%
  • Strategy 20%
  146 Downloads (Pure)

• Reforming Sexual Consent in Northern Ireland: Reflections on ‘Reasonable Belief’

  Dowds, E., 26 May 2020, Queen's Policy Engagement. 6 p.

  Research output: Book/Report › Other report

  Open Access

  File

  • Guilt 100%
  • Drawings 50%
  • Mindset 50%
  • Semistructured Interview 50%
  • Procedural Law 50%
  153 Downloads (Pure)

• Rethinking affirmative approaches to consent: a step in the right direction

  Dowds, E., 15 Apr 2020, Sexual Violence on Trial: Local and Comparative Perspectives. Killean, R., Dowds, E. & McAlinden, A-M. (eds.). Routledge

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter (peer-reviewed) › peer-review

  • Jurisdiction 100%
  • Sexual 75%
  • Activism 50%
  • Conceptualization 50%
  • Ambiguity 50%

• Sexual Consent in Northern Ireland: The Social and Legal Dimensions

  Dowds, E., 26 May 2020, Queen's Policy Engagement. 6 p.

  Research output: Book/Report › Other report

  Open Access

  File

  • Rape 100%
  • Violence 50%
  • Mindset 50%
  • Semistructured Interview 50%
  • Guilt 50%
  157 Downloads (Pure)

• Submission to the United Nations Special Rapporteur on violence against women’s thematic report on rape as a grave and systematic human rights violation and gender- based violence against women

  Dowds, E., 12 May 2020, (Submitted) 12 p.

  Research output: Book/Report › Other report

  File

  • Rape 100%
  • Criminal Law 50%
  • Women 50%
  • United Nations 25%
  • Crime 25%
  38 Downloads (Pure)
• 2019

  Children Born of Sexual and Gender-Based Violence in Conflict: The International Criminal Court, Ecological Environments and Human Development

  Dowds, E., 01 May 2019, In: Children & society. 33, 3, p. 226-238

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  Open Access

  File

  • Courts 100%
  • Gender-Based Violence 100%
  • Children 100%
  • Environment 50%
  • Human Development 50%
  3 Citations (Scopus)

  323 Downloads (Pure)

• Response to Historical Institutional Abuse Consultation

  Moffett, L., Shilliday, P., Gilmore, S., Millman, S., Clarke, A., Coulter, A., Slane, D., Bousquet, K., Hearty, M., Killean, R., Hearty, K., McAlinden, A-M. & Dowds, E., 10 Feb 2019, QUB Human Rights Centre. 72 p.

  Research output: Book/Report › Other report

  Open Access

• Response to the Preliminary Report of the Gillen Review

  Dowds, E., 15 Jan 2019, 7 p.

  Research output: Other contribution

  File

  • Sexual offences 100%
  • Review 100%
  • Law 50%
  • Northern Ireland 50%
  206 Downloads (Pure)

• Towards a Contextual Definition of Rape: Consent, Coercion and Constructive Force

  Dowds, E., 23 Aug 2019, (Early online date) In: The Modern Law Review . 83, 1, p. 35 29 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  Open Access

  File

  • Coercion 100%
  • Rape 60%
  • Engage-ment 40%
  • Sexual 40%
  • Framing 40%
  3 Citations (Scopus)

  702 Downloads (Pure)
• 2018

  16 Days of Activism PodCast: Activism, International Justice and Sexual and Gender Based Violence.

  Dowds, E., 2018

  Research output: Non-textual form › Digital or Visual Products

• An international legal response to #MeToo, rape and sexual abuse is needed

  Dowds, E., 04 May 2018, The Conversation.

  Research output: Other contribution

  • Rape 100%
  • Women 22%
  • Intimate Partner Sexual Violence 22%
  • Woman 22%
  • Jurisdiction 11%

• Children Born of Rape in Bemba: Can the ICC Close the Accountability Gap?

  Dowds, E., 16 Jan 2018, IntLawGrrls.

  Research output: Other contribution

• Children Born of Sexual and Gender-Based Violence in Conflict: Exploring the Boundaries of International Criminal Law

  Dowds, E., 13 Feb 2018, (Accepted) Children and War Past and Present III. Aschauer, W., Buckley, J., Embacher, H., Lichtblau, A., Steinert, D. & Prontera, G. (eds.). Helion, 27 p.

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter (peer-reviewed) › peer-review

  Open Access

  File

  • Child 100%
  • Conflict 50%
  • Criminal Law 50%
  • Crime 33%
  • Social Systems 33%
  160 Downloads (Pure)

• Conceptualising the Role of Consent in the Definition of Rape at The International Criminal Court: A Norm Transfer Perspective

  Dowds, E., 28 Mar 2018, (Early online date) In: International Feminist Journal of Politics. 20 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  Open Access

  File

  • Rape 100%
  • Definition 87%
  • Courts 62%
  • Crime 25%
  • Adoption 25%
  1 Citation (Scopus)

  261 Downloads (Pure)

• Exploring Consent with Eithne Dowds and Jessica Elder.

  Dowds, E., 06 Jul 2018

  Research output: Non-textual form › Digital or Visual Products

• QUB HRC and Gender Network Student Response to the Gillen Review of arrangements to deliver justice in serious sexual offence cases

  Dowds, E. (ed.), 10 Oct 2018, (Unpublished) 59 p.

  Research output: Other contribution

• Rape and consent: ongoing challenges

  Dowds, E., 27 Apr 2018, agendaNi .

  Research output: Other contribution

  Open Access

  • Rape 100%
  • Consent 55%

• Review of arrangements to deliver justice in serious sexual offence cases: Submission by Queen’s University Belfast School of Law

  Killean, R. (ed.), McAlinden, A-M. (ed.) & Dowds, E. (ed.), 2018, 59 p.

  Research output: Other contribution

  File

  • School 100%
  • Student 50%
  • Justice 50%
  • Belfast 50%
  • Haddock 50%
  877 Downloads (Pure)

• Sexual Violence on Trial: Local and Comparative Perspectives: A Conference Organised by the Queen’s University Belfast Human Rights Centre and Gender Network

  Killean, R., Dowds, E. & McAlinden, A-M., 2018, 7 p.

  Research output: Other contribution

  Open Access

  File

  • Conferences 100%
  • Violence 57%
  • Criminal Justice System 42%
  • UK 42%
  • Legal Procedure 42%
  79 Downloads (Pure)
• 2017

  Children born of sexual violence under Islamic State need support

  Dowds, E., 28 Nov 2017, The Conversation.

  Research output: Other contribution

• Defining Rape at the International Criminal Court: A Holistic Account of Gender-Justice: International Women's Day #BeBoldforChange - Speaking Truth to Power (Poster)

  Dowds, E., 08 Mar 2017

  Research output: Non-textual form › Digital or Visual Products

  File
  62 Downloads (Pure)

• Soldiers as Victims at the ECCC: Exploring the Concept of ‘Civilian’ in Crimes against Humanity

  Killean, R., Dowds, E. & Kramer, A., 2017, In: Leiden journal of International Law. 30, 2

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  Open Access

  File

  • Crime 100%
  • Courts 83%
  • Chamber 66%
  • Cambodia 66%
  • International Law 33%
  2 Citations (Scopus)

  630 Downloads (Pure)
• 2016

  Queen’s University Belfast Human Rights Centre Response to Northern Ireland Office Consultation on ‘Domestic Abuse Offence and Domestic Violence Disclosure Scheme’ H. Larkin‎, E. Flaux‎, S. Rodgers‎, S. Browne‎, E. Dowds‎ & C. Egan (2016) 38 p.

  Dowds, E., 29 Apr 2016, (Submitted) QUB Human Rights Centre.

  Research output: Book/Report › Commissioned report

• Queen’s University Belfast Human Rights Centre Response to the ECCC Office of the Co-Investigating Judges’ ‘Call for Submissions by the Parties in Cases 003 and 004 and Call for Amicus Curiae Briefs’

  Killean, R., Moffett, L., Kramer, A. & Dowds, E., 16 May 2016, QUB Human Rights Centre. 9 p.

  Research output: Book/Report › Other report

  Open Access

  File
  99 Downloads (Pure)

• Submission by QUB Human Rights Centre on reparations issues pursuant to Article 75 of the Statute

  Moffett, L., Killean, R., Brunger, Y., Dowds, E., Dempster, L., Schwarz, K. & Gilmore, S., 17 Oct 2016, QUB Human Rights Centre. 49 p.

  Research output: Book/Report › Commissioned report

  Open Access

  File
  648 Downloads (Pure)

• Written submission to: UN Special Rapporteur on violence against women, its causes and consequences on 'The Adequacy of the International Legal Framework on Violence Against Women'

  Brunger, Y. & Dowds, E., 2016, (Accepted) 12 p.

  Research output: Book/Report › Commissioned report

  Open Access

  File

  • Woman 100%
  • Violence 100%
  • Women 100%
  • Legislation 40%
  • Cause 40%
  246 Downloads (Pure)
• 2015

  Book Review - Christine Schwöbel (ed.), Critical Approaches to International Criminal Law: An Introduction

  Dowds, E., Sep 2015, In: Journal of International Criminal Justice . 13, 4, p. 894–895

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Book/Film/Article review › peer-review

• Hilmi M. Zawati: Fair Labelling and the Dilemma of Prosecuting Gender-Based Crimes at the International Criminal Tribunals

  Dowds, E., Apr 2015, In: Feminist Legal Studies. 23, 1, p. 117-120

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Book/Film/Article review › peer-review

• Prosecuting Rape in International Criminal Law: Challenges and Possibilities

  Dowds, E., 15 Oct 2015, QUB Human Rights Centre.

  Research output: Other contribution