Accountability, rule of law, and justice sector reform; rights-based citizenship and legal empowerment for vulnerable groups through rights claims; transitional justice issues, and democratization, institution-building and state reform. Her region of expertise is Latin America, with a special interest in Bolivia.
The history of political philosophy in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, including debates about the nature of rights; contemporary political philosophy, including the relations of rights and powers; women's rights.
The use of the forensic sciences in the protection of human rights; mass grave exhumations and the use of forensic evidence in international criminal trials; enforced disappearances; genocide, armed conflict and memorialisation; transitional justice; anthropology and human rights; science, society and the law
Global ethics; moral theory; virtue ethics; Iris Murdoch; bioethics, global bioethics and public health and health policy; genetics, reproduction, commodification and international research and governance; communication across value-frameworks and belief systems, including issues about the possibility and desirability of global ethics and issues of moral neo-colonialism and multiculturalism; women's rights and reproductive rights; the application of moral theory to policy and practice