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Fiona de Londras (1980-) is an Irish academic and the Professor of Global Legal Studies at the University of Birmingham, UK.
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Professional Life
de Londras completed her PhD in 2008 (in University College Cork) when she also became a lecturer at University College Dublin School of Law. Between 2003 and 2007, de Londras taught at Griffith College Dublin, initially full-time before moving to a part-time appointment. In UCD she spent four years teaching property law, and wrote a text book called Principles of Irish Property Law (2nd edition; 2011), but since leaving Ireland she has not taught property or land law again and has moved away from that area of work.
In 2012 de Londras moved to the University of Durham as a Professor of Law and the Co-Director of the Durham Human Rights Centre. While in Durham she led an EU-funded project on counter-terrorism in the European Union. She moved to the University of Birmingham in 2015 as the inaugural Chair in Global Legal Studies at the law school there. In 2016 she became the Deputy Head of the Law School there. She has published dozens of articles and books on these subjects in academic outlets, and also writes regularly on online and traditional media sources.
Visiting Positions
Fiona de Londras has held (short-term) visiting positions at University of Peshawar (Pakistan), Emory Law School (Atlanta, GA), University of Minnesota, British Institute of International and Comparative Law (London), the Transitional Justice Institute (University of Ulster), Osgoode Hall Law School (York University, Toronto), and the University of Oxford (affiliated to Oxford Human Rights Hub, the OMS Human Rights for Future Generations Programme, and Lincoln College). From 2010-2012 she was a research fellow of the Hague Institute for the Internationalisation of Law. In January 2015 she was Genest Global Visitor at Osgoode Hall, as part of which she delivered the Pierre Genest Memorial Lecture.
Abortion Advocacy
de Londras is a prominent advocate of reform of Ireland's abortion law. She has written in the Irish Times, the Guardian, the Irish Independent, the Conversation, the Journal, Newstalk, and the Oxford Human Rights Hub arguing that the law as it stands needs to be reformed. She was also part of a group of lawyers who drafted model legislation for the Irish labour party in 2015. She regularly debates participates in public debates about abortion, including debating against Prof. William Binchy and Prof. Gerard White at the Trinity College Law Society in 2016, and her views have been cited in the New York Times.
Personal life
de Londras is publicly 'out' as a lesbian. In May 2016 she married Sinead McEneaney, an academic historian at St Mary's University, London.