HELEN DUFFY has practiced international law in diverse contexts for over twenty five years. Her litigation experience spans regional and international human rights courts and bodies, including the African, European and Inter-American systems, the ECOWAS court, UN human rights bodies, and national courts. Positions prior to establishing Human Rights in Practice included: Legal Director of INTERIGHTS; Legal Officer in the Prosecutors Office of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY); Counsel to Human Rights Watch on International Justice, which involved International Criminal Court negotiations and universal jurisdiction including the Pinochet case; Legal Director of CALDH Guatemala, litigating genocide among other violations in the Inter-American system; Assistant Secretary to Lord Justice Scott’s 'Arms for Iraq Inquiry and Legal Adviser to the UK Government legal service. She is also Professor of International Humanitarian Law and Human Rights at the Grotius Centre, Leiden University, Honorary/Visiting Professor at Glasgow, Melbourne and American Universities, and has an LLB. (Glasgow), LLM. (University College London), Dipl. Legal Practice (Edinburgh) and PHD (Leiden). She is on the board of several NGOs.
Publications include “The ‘War on Terror’ and the Framework of International law (CUP, 2nd ed. 2015), ‘Strategic Human Rights Litigation: Understanding and Maximising Impact’ (Hart, 2018) and Law Applicable to Armed Conflict (with Bohrer and Dill), CUP 2020. Fuller list here.