Academic Affiliates of the Bonavero Institute

Applications for academic affiliate status should be made to the Director of the Institute via email. Please attach a CV (no longer than 4 pages) and a 2 page summary explaining your area of work. 

Once your application has been submitted, it will be reviewed internally. If your application passes the initial review stage, it will be reviewed by the Institute’s Management Committee which meets termly, in week 5. The Institute Manager will be in touch shortly after the meeting, confirming the outcome of your application.

• Jeremias Adams-Prassl, Professor of Law at the Faculty of Law, University of Oxford (Michaelmas 2020-2026)
• Thiago Alves Pinto, Departmental Lecturer in Legal Studies and International Human Rights Law, Department for Continuing Education, University of Oxford (Hilary 2021-2027)
• Nick Bamforth, CUF in Law at the Faculty of Law, University of Oxford (Hilary 2017-2029)
• Nicholas Barber, Professor of Constitutional Law and Theory, University of Oxford (Trinity 2021-2027)
• Mary Bosworth, Professor of Criminology, Faculty of Law, University of Oxford (Michaelmas Term 2018-2027)
• Shazia Choudhry, Professor of Law, Faculty of Law, University of Oxford (Hilary Term 2022-2028)
• Federica D'Alessandra, Deputy Director, Oxford Institute for Ethics, Law, and Armed Conflict (ELAC) & Executive Director, Oxford Programme on International Peace and Security (IPS), University of Oxford (Michaelmas Term 2018-2027)
• Anne Davies, Professor of Law and Public Policy, Faculty of Law, University of Oxford (Michaelmas 2020-2026)
• Melina De Bona - Research Analyst, Climate Litigation Lab and the Oxford Sustainable Law Programme, Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment (Trinity 2026-2029)
• Hasan Dindjer, Associate Professor of Law, Faculty of Law, University of Oxford (Hilary 2023-2026)
• Matthew Dyson - Professor of Civil and Criminal Law and Director of the Institute for European and Comparative Law
• David Eichert - Departmental Lecturer in International Relations at DPIR (Trinity 2026-2029)
• Malcolm Evans, Principal of Regent's Park College, University of Oxford (Michaelmas 2022-2028)
• Benjamin Franta - Senior Research Fellow in Climate Litigation – Smith School of Enterprise and Environment and the Faculty of Law
• Sandy Fredman, FBA, QC (hon), Rhodes Professor of the Laws of the British Commonwealth and the United States at the Faculty of Law, University of Oxford (Trinity 2023-2029)
• Barbara Havelkova, Associate Professor of Law, Faculty of Law and Tutorial Fellow in Law, St Hilda's College, University of Oxford (Hilary 2017-2029)
• Jonathan Herring, Professor of Law at the Faculty of Law, University of Oxford (Michaelmas 2020-2026)
• Andrew Higgins, Professor of Civil Procedure at the Faculty of Law, University of Oxford (Hilary 2021-2027)
• Hayley Hooper, Associate Professor of Law, Faculty of Law, University of Oxford (Trinity 2021-2027)
• Miles Jackson, Associate Professor of Law at the Faculty of Law and a Fellow of Jesus College, University of Oxford (Trinity 2017-2029)
• Theodor Meron, Visiting Professor at the Faculty of Law, University of Oxford (Trinity 2017-2029)
• Rasmus Nielsen, Professor of Political Communication and Director of Research, Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism, University of Oxford (Trinity 2021-2027)
• Ezequiel Gonzalez Ocantos, Associate Professor in the Department of Politics and International Relations, and Professorial Fellow in Nuffield College, University of Oxford (Trinity 2021-2027)
• Leigh Payne, Professor of Sociology, Latin American Centre, University of Oxford (Trinity 2021-2027)
• Jacob Rowbottom, Professor of Law at the Faculty of Law, University of Oxford (Michaelmas 2020-2026)
• Nicole Stremlau, Head of the Programme in Comparative Media Law and Policy (PCMLP), Faculty of Law, University of Oxford (Michaelmas Term 2018-2027)
• Sandra Wachter, Professor of Technology and Regulation at the Oxford Internet Institute, University of Oxford (Michaelmas Term 2018-2027)

Tutors on the International Human Rights Law (IHRL) MSc course and Summer School programme are automatically enrolled as academic affiliates of the Bonavero Institute of Human Rights. Academic affiliations with the institute usually run for 3 years. Those affiliated with the MSc course and Summer School might be less or more than this, depending on tutor tenure and involvement on the IHRL programme. 

Tutors can 'opt out' of becoming an affiliate at any time, by emailing the Programmes Manager of the Bonavero Institute and Director of the IHRL Summer School, Eliza Bechtold.

• Fareda Banda - Professor of Law at SOAS, University of London
• Carolyn Patty Blum - Clinical Professor of Law (Emerita) at Berkeley Law School
• Jason Brickhill - Director of Litigation, Socio-Economic Rights Institute of South Africa; Associate, Oxford Human Rights Hub; Honorary Research Associate, University of Cape Town
• Joshua Castellino - Executive Dean of the College of Arts, Law & Social Sciences, Brunel University London
• Cathryn Costello - Professor of Global Refugee and Migration Law, University College Dublin
• Helen Duffy - Professor of International Human Rights and Humanitarian Law at Leiden University, and Director of Human Rights in Practice
• Elvira Dominguez-Redondo (to end of Trinity Term 2027) - Professor of Law at Kingston University, London
• Alice Edwards, Special Rapporteur on torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment
• David Kaye - Clinical Professor of Law, University of California Irvine
• Dino Kritsiotis - Professor of Public International Law at the University of Nottingham, UK
• John Knox - Professor of International Law at Wake Forest University, USA
• Philip Leach, Professor of Human Rights Law at Middlesex University, a solicitor, and Director of the European Human Rights Advocacy Centre (EHRAC), UK
• Wade Mansell - Emeritus Professor of International Law, University of Kent, UK
• Stuart Maslen - Honorary Professor, University of Pretoria
• Yvonne McDermott Rees, Professor of Law, Swansea University, UK
• Steve Meili - James H. Michael Chair in International Human Rights Law and Professor of Law
• Juan Méndez, Professor of Human Rights Law at the American University Washington College of Law
• Daragh Murray - Reader in International Law & Human Rights, Queen Mary University London School of Law
• Thomas Probert, Head of Research of Freedom from Violence, a multidisciplinary research collaboration at the University of Pretoria
• Patricia Sellers - International criminal lawyer and Special Adviser on Slavery Crimes to the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court
• Ahmed Shaheed - Professor of Human Rights at Essex Law School and Senior Fellow at Raoul Wallenberg Human Rights Centre
• Ann Skelton - Professor of Law and holds the UNESCO Chair in Education Law at the University of Pretoria
• Surya Subedi, Professor of International Law at the University of Leeds and a practising Barrister at Three Stone Chambers, Lincoln’s Inn, London
• Edward T. Swaine - Charles Kennedy Poe Research Professor, The George Washington University
• Patrick Thornberry, Emeritus Professor of International Law at Keele University and Honorary Professor of Law at the University of Nottingham, UK
• Elizabeth Umlas - Lecturer at the University of Fribourg, Switzerland, independent researcher and consultant
• Frans Viljoen - Director of the Centre for Human Rights at the Faculty of Law, University of Pretoria
• Lars Waldorf - Professor of Law, Northumbria School of Law
• Alexandra Xanthaki - Professor of Law, Brunel University London (UK) and UN Special Rapporteur in the field of Cultural Rights