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Catherine Briddick
BA, LLM, DPhil
Andrew W Mellon Associate Professor of International Human Rights and Refugee Law
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 and legal theorising on intersectionality to analyse protection, discrimination, and the relationships between them. Her research has been published in leading peer reviewed journals and books, including Social & Legal Studies, ICLQ, the International Journal of Discrimination and the Law and the Oxford Handbook of International Refugee Law (Costello, Foster, and McAdam (eds), OUP 2021).
Catherine holds an LLM from the LSE and a DPhil from the University of Oxford. Catherine is also a barrister (currently non-practicing). 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 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 gender and forced migration, international and EU refugee and migration law, and on the human rights of refugees.
Recent publications
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Supreme Judgecraft: Non-Refoulement and the end of the UK-Rwanda ‘deal’?
Other
Catherine Briddick and Cathryn Costello, (2023), Verfassungsblog
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The end of the Rwanda Scheme? R (AAA) v SSHD [2023]
Other
Catherine Briddick, (2023), Border Criminologies blog
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Book review. Colin Yeo, Refugee Law (Bristol University Press 2022), 286 pp, ISBN 978-1-5292-1997-5 (pbk)
Book review
Catherine Briddick, (2023), International Journal of Refugee Law, 34 (3-4)
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Refugees, Deportation and Detention: The Illegal Migration Bill
Other
Catherine Briddick, (2023), Border Criminologies blog
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Guest Editor Introduction: Contesting and Undoing Discriminatory Borders
Journal article
Shreya Atrey et al, (2022), International Journal of Discrimination and the Law, 22 (3)