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Catherine Briddick is the Andrew W. Mellon Associate Professor of International Human Rights and Refugee Law and a fellow of St Antony’s College. She is currently Course Director for the MSc in Refugee and Forced Migration Studies.

Catherine is a scholar of human rights and refugee law who draws on feminist approaches to international law to analyse protection, discrimination, and the relationships between them. Her work, published in leading academic journals including ICLQ, the International Journal of Discrimination and the Law and the International Journal of Refugee Law, cuts across subjects and regimes, including UK immigration and public law, non-discrimination and equality law, European Union law, and public international law. It has been cited in an Opinion of the Advocate General before the European Court of Justice and by the UN Special Rapporteur on Trafficking in Persons, Especially Women and Children. Catherine’s monograph, Violence against Women and Regimes of Exception: Undoing Discrimination in Migration Law was published by OUP in 2025.

Catherine holds an LLM from the LSE and a DPhil from the University of Oxford. Catherine is also a barrister (currently non-practising). Before coming to academia, she represented individuals before courts and tribunals and then delivered and managed legal advice services in the not-for-profit sector.

Catherine is a member of the Editorial Board of International Journal of Refugee Law and on the Board of Trustees of Women for Refugee Women. She is also a Research Associate of the Refugee Law Initiative and an Associate Fellow of the Higher Education Academy.

Catherine welcomes approaches from doctoral candidates with projects in international and regional refugee and migration law, gender and forced migration, and on the human rights of refugees and migrants.