Thamil Venthan Ananthavinayagan

Thamil Venthan Ananthavinayagan

Senior Legal Advisor to the Minister of Justice and Assistant Principal at the Department of Justice, Republic of Ireland

Dr. Thamil Venthan Ananthavinayagan, LLM. (Maastricht University), PhD (University of Galway) is Senior Legal Advisor to the Minister of Justice and Assistant Principal at the Department of Justice, Republic of Ireland. Prior to this role, he was Teaching Associate in Human Rights Law at University of Nottingham since February 2021, promoted as Assistant Professor in Human Rights Law. He had been senior lecturer between 2017-2021 at all major Dublin universities.

Before his lectureships in Dublin, he worked as a Fellow at the Irish Centre for Human Rights in Galway, and at the Irish Centre for Human Rights. He studied law at the universities of Bonn and Marburg and Maastricht, after which he worked at different research institutions including the Friedrich Ebert Foundation. He also worked at the State Parliament of Northrhine-Westphalia in Düsseldorf and for the former German Health Minister in Berlin. Finally, Thamil was legal counsel for the German Social Democratic Party and worked as a junior lawyer for the tenants' association in Bonn, Germany.

His research interests are rooted in critical approaches to human rights from the Third World Approaches to International Law and critical investigations of the United Nations human rights regime.

Taught Courses

Open dump Training

Protecting Human Rights and the Environment

Participants in this training course, made of two modules, will examine the major international and regional instruments for the promotion of human rights and the environment, familiarizing themselves with the respective implementation and enforcement mechanisms.

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Videos

Human Rights Conversation : Universally Digital

Human Rights Conversation : Universally Digital

UN Human Rights Mechanisms and Mega Sporting Events: The road to FIFA World Cup 2022 and 2023

UN Human Rights Mechanisms and Mega Sporting Events: The road to FIFA World Cup 2022 and 2023

Russia and Ukraine

Russia and Ukraine