DrAmy Strecker

Amy Strecker is an Associate Professor at UCD Sutherland School of Law with expertise in cultural heritage law, environmental law and human rights. She holds a PhD in public international law from the European University Institute (Florence), for which she was awarded an Irish Research Council doctoral scholarship. Amy is a leading expert on the subject of landscape protection with over 20 years’ experience researching landscape governance, combining legal analysis with interdisciplinary and cross cultural perspectives. Her monograph, Landscape Protection in International Law (Oxford University Press, 2018), described in review as 'the definitive text on landscape and law', provides the first comprehensive overview of the international (and European) framework for landscape protection, including cultural, environmental, and procedural rights perspectives. In 2019 she was awarded a major European Research Council grant for a project on land, property and spatial [in]justice in international law / PROPERTY[IN]JUSTICE (https://www.landlawandjustice.eu/).

At UCD, Amy teaches graduate modules on culture, heritage and human rights, and undergraduate modules on law and the arts. She also lectures on environmental law and advanced legal research methods. She is a visiting professor at the University of Nova Gorica, Slovenia where she is module coordinator for Cultural Heritage, Common Goods and the Law. Amy has supervised five doctorates to completion and has examined 7 internationally on a variety of topics related to environmental governance, cultural heritage law and international justice. 

She has published widely on landscape, law and culture, as well as on various aspects of cultural heritage law (Irish/international), heritage destruction, Indigenous Peoples' rights, World Heritage (cultural landscapes), the return of cultural objects, the Caribbean Reparations Commission, intangible cultural heritage (customary practices) and cultural diversity. Amy is the co-editor of several volumes including Heritage Destruction, Human Rights and International Law (Martinus Nijhoff, 2023), Heritage and Rights of Indigenous Peoples (Leiden University Press, 2017), and Landscape, Law and Justice - 20 Years (Royal Swedish Academy, 2024). She sits on the Editorial Board of the International Journal of Cultural Property, is a member of the International Law Association - Irish branch, and is regularly invited to speak at intergovernmental fora and international committee meetings (CoE, UN, ICOMOS) on aspects of her research. Amy is also involved in advocacy work related to culture, heritage, landscape, and human rights in practice. 

Current PhD supervision:

Sinead Mercier: Between Lawscape and Landscape: Using a legal geographical approach to build a critical Energy Law for the Anthropocene (Second supervisor: Dr. Andrew Jackson)

Former PhD supervision:

Dr Sonya Cotton: Who Stands on Land? Transnational sources of apartheid and community (dis)placement in South African and Namibian land claims. Nominated for the Dr. Máire de Paor Best PhD Thesis & Presentation Award in the College of Social Sciences and Law (Second supervisor: Dr Amanda Byer, UCD Sutherland School of Law)

Current role: Postdoctoral Researcher, ERC project 'Centring Care in International Law', School of Law and Government, Dublin City University

Dr Raphael Ng'etich: The Impact of Carbon Credit Schemes in Conservancies in Northern Kenya on the Governance of Unregistered Community Land (Second supervisor: Dr Amanda Byer, UCD Sutherland School of Law)

Current role: Joint-secretary, Government of Kenya

Leiden University

Dr Amanda Byer: Heritage, Landscape and Spatial Justice, New Legal Perspectives on Heritage Protection in the Lesser Antilles (Other supervisor: Professor Corinne Hofman, Leiden University)

Current role: Assistant Professor, Sutherland School of Law, University College Dublin

Dr Uditha Jinadasa: Changes in the Cultural Landscape and their Impacts on Heritage Management: A Study of Dutch Fort at Galle, Sri Lanka (Other supervisors: Professor Maarten Jansen, Leiden Univeristy; Dr. Till Sonnemann, formely Leiden University)

Current role: Lecturer, Department of Archaeology, University of Peradeniya, Sri Lanka

Dr Eloise Stancioff: Landscape, Land-Change and Wellbeing in the Lesser Antilles, Case Studies from the Coastal Villages of St. Kitts and the Kalinago Territory, Dominica  (Other supervisor: Professor Corinne Hofman, Leiden University)

Current role: Project Manager, OIKO (private sector)