Sandra Fredman

Director

Sandra Fredman FBA KC (hon) is the Professor of the Laws of the British Commonwealth and the USA at Oxford University. She is Honorary Professor of Law at the University of Cape Town and a fellow of Pembroke College Oxford. She was elected a Fellow of the British Academy in 2005 and was made an Honorary Queen’s Counsel in 2012. She has written and published widely on anti-discrimination law, human rights law and labour law, with a specific focus on gender and socio-economic rights.

Meghan Campbell

Deputy-Director

Meghan Campbell is a Reader in International Human Rights Law at the University of Birmingham and Deputy-Director of the Oxford Human Rights Hub.Her first monograph, Women, Poverty, Equality (Hart 2018) examined women’s poverty in the CEDAW and her second, supported with a British Academy Mid-Career Fellowship, Hanging in the Balance: The Function of Justification in Achieving Women’s Equality (Hart 2025), looks at the relationship between women’s equality and limits on rights. Her research focuses on women’s economic inequality and other overlooked aspects of women’s equality. .

Anne Marie Lofaso

OxHRH Associate

Anne Lofaso is Professor of Law at the University of Cincinnati College of Law, where she teaches Labor Law, Employment Law, Employment Discrimination, and Constitutional Law. She previously held the Arthur B. Hodges Professorship at the West Virginia University College...

Aradhana Cherupara Vadekkethil

Research Director

Dr. Aradhana Cherupara Vadekkethil is the Lord and Lady McNair Early Career Fellow in Law at Somerville College, teaching criminal law and constitutional law. Her doctoral research, supervised by Professor Laura Hoyano and funded by the Gopal Subramaniam OICSD scholarship,...

Freya Baetens

Research Director; Professor of Public International Law

Freya Baetens is Professor of Public International Law (Oxford University), Research Director at the Oxford Human Rights Hub (Pembroke College), GIC+ Project Director (Regent’s Park College) and was awarded the 2024 Francqui Chair (Belgium). She holds the Chair of EU External...

Justin Winchester

Justin is a DPhil Law candidate researching positive duties to promote and achieve equality funded by a Rhodes Scholarship. Justin holds a BCom (2019) and an LLB (2021) from the University of Cape Town and a BCL (2022/23) from Oxford....

Lara Ibrahim

Blog Editor

Lara Ibrahim is a DPhil candidate in the Faculty in Law at the University of Oxford, where her doctoral research focuses on extraterritorial human rights obligations of States in the context of climate change. Lara was a Judicial Fellow at...

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Rachel Wechsler

OxHRH Associate

Rachel J. Wechsler is an Associate Professor at the University of Missouri School of Law, a Faculty Scholar at the Middleton Center for Race, Citizenship, and Justice, and the Assistant Director of the Center for the Study of Dispute Resolution....

Rawletta Barrow

Blog Editor

Rawletta is a DPhil candidate in Law at the University of Oxford and a Rhodes Scholar. She holds a Bachelor of Civil Law from the University of Oxford and a Bachelor of Laws from the University of the West Indies...

Sean Gordon Dalton

Communications Director

Sean is a communications professional, and an MPP graduate from the Blavatnik School of Government, University of Oxford.

Sophie Smith

Podcast Producer

Sophie Smith graduated from the University of Edinburgh with a BSc with Honours in Reproductive Biology in 2020. She then worked as an Associate Scientist, researching immunotherapy-based treatments for HIV in a Biotech company based in Oxford. Recently, she has...

Sophie Treacy

Blog Editor

Sophie Treacy is a DPhil in Law Candidate at Mansfield College. Her research focuses on the conceptualisation of human dignity in the interpretation of the European Convention of Human Rights, under the supervision of Professor Sandra Fredman. She holds a...