Contact information
Research groups
News & Media
The UK government is putting paperwork before protection for Ukrainian refugees, LBC Radio
RightsUp Pops: Catherine Briddick on Equality and Off-Shoring, Oxford Human Rights Hub
Rwanda and refoulement: Can the 1951 Refugee Convention survive?, The Migration Oxford Podcast
Catherine Briddick
BA, LLM, DPhil
Departmental Lecturer in Gender and International Human Rights and Refugee Law
Catherine Briddick is Departmental Lecturer in Gender and International Human Rights and Refugee Law, and Course Director for the MSc in Refugee and Forced Migration Studies.
Catherine holds an LLM from the LSE and a DPhil from the University of Oxford. Catherine has practiced as a barrister, in addition to having delivered and managed legal advice and information services in the not-for-profit sector.
Catherine’s research focuses on gender, refugee protection, and discrimination and violence against women, issues she examines from an international legal and feminist perspective. Catherine is Principal Investigator of the Undoing Discriminatory Borders project.
Catherine’s work has been published in a number of peer-reviewed journals including International & Comparative Law Quarterly and Social & Legal Studies. Her monograph, Violence against Women and Regimes of Exception: Undoing Discrimination in British and European Migration Law is forthcoming with Oxford University Press.
Catherine is an Academic Affiliate of the Bonavero Institute of Human Rights and an Associate Fellow of the Higher Education Academy. She has previously taught Public International Law and International Human Rights Law at the LSE.
Recent publications
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Mobility and sanctuary: how to revive asylum in Europe
Other
Catherine Briddick, (2022)
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Ukraine: the UK is failing to meet its obligations under the 1951 Refugee Convention
Other
Catherine Briddick, (2022), The Conversation
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Introduction to the Symposium on Undoing Discriminatory Borders
Journal article
Catherine Briddick and Cathryn Costello, (2021), AJIL Unbound, 115, 328 - 332
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When does migration law discriminate against women?
Journal article
Catherine Briddick, (2021), AJIL Unbound, 115, 356 - 361
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Human Trafficking and Refugees
Chapter
Catherine Briddick and Vladislava Stoyanova, (2021), The Oxford Handbook of International Refugee Law