Catherine Briddick

Catherine Briddick is the Andrew W Mellon Associate Professor of International Human Rights and Refugee Law at the University of Oxford, affiliated with St Antony's College and the Refugee Studies Centre. She serves as Course Director for the MSc in Refugee and Forced Migration Studies. Her research focuses on feminist approaches to international law, intersectionality, and the interplay between protection, discrimination, and refugee rights. Briddick holds an LLM from the London School of Economics (LSE) and a DPhil from the University of Oxford. She previously practiced as a barrister and worked in non-profit legal services before academia.

Her research interests span Refugee Law, International Human Rights Law, Public International Law, and European Law, with a particular emphasis on gender and forced migration. Recent work critiques discriminatory migration policies, explores CEDAW implementation gaps, and examines non-refoulement principles in cases like the UK-Rwanda agreement. Briddick is also a Research Associate at the Refugee Law Initiative and an Associate Fellow of the Higher Education Academy.

Her publications analyze topics such as domestic violence and migration law, human trafficking, and gender-based discrimination in border policies. She actively supervises doctoral candidates in gender and forced migration, international refugee law, and EU migration frameworks. Briddick’s interdisciplinary approach bridges legal theory, feminist critique, and practical policy analysis.