Loveday Hodson is an Associate Professor of Law at the University of Leicester.

Her primary research interest lies in the intersection of international human rights law, gender, and sexuality. She has published widely in the area of women’s rights, as well as on conceptions of LGBT family rights in international law. She was co-organiser of a large, high-profile project in which a number of key international judgments were re-written from a feminist perspective, the output of which was published in September 2019 as Feminist Judgments in International Law (Hart). This book was the winner of the American Society of International Law’s 2020 Certificate of Merit for a preeminent contribution to creative scholarship. In 2019, she also published an edited collected, Research Methods for International Human Rights Law: Beyond the Traditional Paradigm (Routledge). Additionally, she has an interest in social movements and has worked with a number of NGOs on the rights of LGBT families. She founded, and for a number of years convened, the European Society of International Law’s interest group on Feminism and International Law.  She sits on the editorial board of Feminist Legal Studies.

Loveday has recently been awarded a Leverhulme Research Fellowship for a project titled: ‘Memory, Mourning and the European Court of Human Rights’. During this period, she will be working on a book that pays attention to affect and the emotional dimensions of human rights in the decision of the European Court of Human Rights addressing the most harrowing, egregious, large-scale human rights violations. In this project she will explore the role that emotions can play in reaching understandings of rights, harms and responsibilities that can match the Court’s stated values.

Research Interests: human rights; gender; sexuality; affect and the law.

Region of focus: European human rights, including how the European Court of Human Rights addresses colonial harms.

Expertise: Mass atrocities and the European Court of Human Rights; feminist approaches to international law; LGBT rights in international law.