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Miriam Cullen is Associate Professor of Law at University of Copenhagne and Codirector, Centre for Comparative, European, and Constitutional Law. As Program Manager at the Danish Institute for Human Rights, she leads research on the right to health in Greenland. Miriam’s general research focus is (1) human
rights in Greenland, and (2) human mobility in the context of climate change and disaster. Miriam co-founded and directs the Nordic Network on ClimateRelated Displacement, sits on the Advisory Committee to the Platform on Disaster Displacement, and is Senior Associate at the Refugee Law Initiative, SOAS, University of London. Before coming to academia, Miriam represented Australia on the Human Rights Committee of the UN General Assembly, having independently negotiated a range of human rights resolutions, including on social development, torture, human trafficking, and extreme poverty.
Miriam has been a Visiting Professional in the Immediate Office of the Prosecutor at the International Criminal Court, where she led a small team to compile the first draft of the Prosecutor’s policy on children. Before then, she managed several Parliamentary Committee Inquiries in Australia, and provided legal assistance to the Royal Commission into the 2009 bushfires. Miriam is originally from Aotearoa New
Zealand (Irish settler family).
Updated Nov. 2024