Tarlach McGonagle

Tarlach McGonagle is a senior researcher at the Institute for Information Law (IViR), Faculty of Law, University of Amsterdam and at the School of Human Rights Research in the Netherlands. He regularly writes expert reports for various branches of the Council of Europe, OSCE, other IGOs and NGOs. He is currently Rapporteur of the Council of Europe’s Committee of Experts on protection of journalism and safety of journalists. He was awarded a Ph.D. by the University of Amsterdam (2008) for his thesis examining the interface between freedom of expression and minority rights under international law. McGonagle is coordinator of IViR’s specialised masters programme, Informatierecht, at the University of Amsterdam. In Spring 2013, he was a Visiting Scholar at the Center for Global Communication Studies, Annenberg School for Communication, University of Pennsylvania and at the Rutgers Institute for Information Policy and Law (RIIPL), Rutgers School of Law-Camden, New Jersey.