Kate Murphy is an Irish PhD Researcher at the University of Ghent and KU Leuven in Belgium, funded by the Research Foundation Flanders (FWO). Her research focuses on the effects of interim measures adopted to protect persons deprived of liberty in El Salvador and Nicaragua. Kate holds an LLM in Public International Law from the University of Groningen (the Netherlands). In 2021, she won the Hanneke Steenbergen Scriptieprijs for the best master’s thesis in the Netherlands in the field of migration law. Her research interests include the effective implementation of human rights treaties, the prevention of ill-treatment of prisoners and the interactions between States and human rights bodies.