Alice Storey

Senior Lecturer, Associate Director Centre for Human Rights

Email:: alice.storey@bcu.ac.uk

Dr Alice Storey is a Senior Lecturer in the College of Law, Social and Criminal Justice and Associate Director of the Centre for Human Rights. She leads the Human Rights in America LLB modules and teaches on the US internship programme. Alice is also the College Academic Lead for Unit of Assessment 18 (Law), leading on Law’s REF2029 submission.

Alice’s research predominantly focuses on the UN’s Universal Periodic Review (UPR) mechanism and State engagement with international human rights, predominantly from the perspective of women's rights and the abolition of capital punishment. Her published work has analysed the operation of the UPR, making suggestions on how the UPR can be strengthened in order for it to achieve its full potential. Alice is also one of three co-founders of the ‘UPR Academic Network’, which brings together a large, international network of scholars working on the UPR mechanism.

Alice is the Academic Lead of the UPR Project at BCU, which was shortlisted for aTimes Higher Education Award in 2021. The UPR Project engages in practice with the UPR mechanism, supporting civil society organisations and domestic governments. This allows Alice’s academic research to be translated into practical change for human rights on the ground.

Alice is regularly invited to sit as an expert panellist, speaking at events such as UPR Info’s “Strengthening the UPR for the Fourth Cycle” and Geneva Peace Week’s “Applying Insights from the UPR Process to Improve Reporting on Sustainable Development Goal 16.” Since 2015, she has been a pro-bono academic for the charity, Amicus, providing expertise on international law and the death penalty.

Areas of Expertise

Qualifications

Memberships

Teaching

Research

Postgraduate Supervision

Publications

Selected Publications

Damian Etone, Amna Nazir, and Alice Storey (eds), Human Rights and the UN Universal Periodic Review Mechanism: A Research Companion (Forthcoming Routledge 2023).
Storey A, ‘Improving Recommendations from the UN’s Universal Periodic Review: A Case Study on Domestic Abuse in the UK’ Pace International Law Review (Forthcoming Spring 2023).
Storey A, ‘The USA’s Engagement with the UN’s Human Rights Committee on the Question of Capital Punishment’, 17 Intercultural Human Rights Law Review 53 (2022).
Storey A, ‘National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, Washington D.C., USA’, in, Adam Lynes, Craig Kelly and James Treadwell (eds)50 Dark Destinations: A Criminological Analysis of Contemporary Tourism (Bristol University Press 2022).
Storey A & Eccleston-Turner M, ‘Transparency, Accountability, and Legitimacy in the United Nations’ Human Rights Council’s Universal Periodic Review’, in, Salvador Santino Regilme Jr. & Irene Hadiprayitno (eds) Human Rights at Risk: Rethinking International Institutions, American Power, and the Future of Dignity (Rutgers University Press, 2022).
Storey A, ‘Challenges and Opportunities for the UN Universal Periodic Review: A Case Study on Capital Punishment in the USA’, 90 UMKC Law Review 129 (2021).
Storey A, ‘A Tale of Two Realities: Foreign Nationals, Consular Assistance, and the Death Penalty in the USA’, 15 Charleston Law Review 459 (2021).
Yorke J & Storey A, ‘Towards a World Without the Death Penalty’, in, Peter Stearns (ed) Routledge Handbook on Death (2020).
Storey A, ‘Engaging with the UN Human Rights Council’s Universal Periodic Review as an Academic’ Juris Poiesis, Vol. 23, No. 32, 662-664 (2020).
Storey A, “Austin Sarat (ed.), Human Rights and Legal Judgments: The American Story”, Human Rights Law Review, Volume 19, Issue 1, 28 February 2019, 193–198.

Selected Reports

UPR Project at BCU Stakeholder Reports

See a full list of UPR Project at BCU Reports.

Storey A, Nazir A, & Yorke J, ‘Germany Universal Periodic Review Stakeholder Submission’, The UPR Project at BCU (2023).
Storey A, Nazir A, & Yorke J, ‘Japan Universal Periodic Review Stakeholder Submission’, The UPR Project at BCU (2022).
Storey A, Nazir A, & Yorke J, ‘Japan Universal Periodic Review Stakeholder Submission’, The UPR Project at BCU (2022).
Storey A et. al., ‘United Kingdom Universal Periodic Review Stakeholder Submission’, The UPR Project at BCU (2022).
Brigagão Natalia et. al., ‘Brazil Universal Periodic Review Stakeholder Submission’, The UPR Project at BCU (2022).
Storey A, Nazir A, & Yorke J, ‘Eswatini Universal Periodic Review Stakeholder Submission’, The UPR Project at BCU (2021).
Storey A, Nazir A, & Yorke J, ‘Namibia Universal Periodic Review Stakeholder Submission’, The UPR Project at BCU (2020).
Storey A, et. al., ‘United States Universal Periodic Review Stakeholder Submission’, The UPR Project at BCU (2020).

Other Reports

Centre for Women’s Justice, ‘Double Standard: Ending the Unjust Criminalisation of Victims of Violence Against Women and Girls’ (2022).