Role: Professor of Law, Durham Law School
Durham, UK

  Contact: fiona.de-londras@durham.ac.uk

  Research Interests:
Comparative Consitutional Law | Human Rights | Counter Terrorism | Vulnerability Theory

Fiona de Londras is a Professor of Law at Durham University (UK), Adjunct Professor at UNSW School of Law (Sydney, Australia), and Visiting Professor at UCD School of Law (Dublin, Ireland). She has been a regular visitor to Emory Law School since 2006, writing a substantial portion of her doctoral thesis while at the Feminism and Legal Theory Project. Fiona’s work is primarily concerned with what happens to human rights law and discourse in the context of ‘crisis’. In the main, she has explored this in the context of (counter-)terrorist crises, however her research is also concerned with what happens when human rights institutions experience crises of capacity, when there are political crises about highly sensitive issues (such as abortion in Ireland), and in the aftermath of catastrophic violent crises such as war or genocide. Fiona has published or edited more than 60 books, chapters and articles. She is the co-editor of Legal Studies, Joint Editor-in-Chief of the Irish Yearbook of International Law, and founder of the collaborative academic blog Human Rights in Ireland. You can find out more about her work and her publications here.