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 Senior Lecturer at the University of Birmingham and Deputy-Director of the Oxford Human Rights Hub. Her monograph Women, Poverty, Equality: The Role of CEDAW (Hart, 2018) was one of two shortlisted for the Socio-Legal Scholars Association Early Career Research Prize-2019.
Almas Shaikh
OxHRH Communications
Almas is a human rights lawyer from India. She is currently reading as a DPhil candidate (PRS) at the University of Oxford and is a Barbara Mills Graduate Scholar in Law. She focuses on the role of intersectionality in Indian...
Amy Kerr
Blog Editor
Amy is a DPhil candidate at the Faculty of Law, supervised by Dr Shreya Atrey. Her research focuses on International Human Rights Law’s binary understanding of gender and sexuality, and is generously funded by a Crankstart graduate scholarship. She is a Research Assistant for the Oxford...
Aradhana Cherupara Vadekkethil
Director of Policy Submissions
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,...
Frances Hand
Podcaster
Frances Hand is a penultimate year DPhil in Law Candidate at St Edmund Hall College, Oxford, under the supervision of Professor Imogen Goold and Professor Jonathan Herring. Her thesis reconceptualises violent practice in UK maternity wards. She is Convenor and...
Research Director; Professor of Public International Law
Freya Baetens is Professor of Public International Law (Faculty of Law, Oxford University), Research Director at the Oxford Human Rights Hub and Director of the International Human Rights Summer School at the Bonavero Institute of Human Rights. She is also...
Josep Maria Tirapu
Josep M. Tirapu is a PhD candidate in Law at the University of Cambridge. He holds an MPhil in Law from the University of Oxford and a Master of Research in Political Science from Universitat Pompeu Fabra (Barcelona). His research...
Justin Winchester
Justin is a Rhodes Scholar pursuing a DPhil in Law after having completed his BCL at the University of Oxford. He graduated as the top student in his BCom and LLB degrees from the University of Cape Town. Justin’s research...
Lara Ibrahim
Blog Editor
Lara Ibrahim is currently a Judicial Fellow at the International Court of Justice. She 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...
Louise McCormack
Podcaster
Louise was a BCL candidate at the University of Oxford in 2021/2022. She graduated with a First-Class Honours LL.B degree and was awarded the Julian Prize from Trinity College Dublin in 2020, having spent a year abroad at Sciences Po...
Mandisa Shandu
Soliciting Editor
Mandisa Shandu is a human rights lawyer from South Africa and is currently reading for a DPhil in Law at the University of Oxford. She holds a B.Soc.Sci degree in political science, an LLB degree and an LLM in Constitutional...
Monica Arango Olaya
Podcaster
Mónica Arango Olaya is reading for a DPhil in Law at the Faculty of Law at Oxford University. Her research focuses on sexual harassment in the workplace and the #MeToo movement. She holds a Bachelor of Laws from Los Andes...
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...
Sarah Dobbie
Podcast Team
Sarah completed an MSc Refugee and Forced Migration Studies and BCL, both with Distinction, at the University of Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar. Within the broader focus of human rights and refugee law, her research focused on tools for legal...
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
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...