Brice Dickson is currently the Professor of International and Comparative Law at Queen's University Belfast. He previously served for six years as the Chief Commissioner of Northern Ireland's Human rights Commission, a key institution tasked by the Good Friday Agreement of 1998 with promoting and protecting the human rights of everyone in that jurisdiction and with advising on the content of a Bill of Rights for Northern Ireland. Brice Dickson has also taught at the Universities of Ulster and Leicester and has published widely on human rights law, public law, French and German law and the