Fiona de Londras

[4] In December 2017 she was the Cheng Chan Lan Yue Distinguished Visiting Fellow at the University of Hong Kong Faculty of Law.

[8][9] In 2017 de Londras won the Philip Leverhulme Prize in law, which is awarded to those within ten years of their PhD whose work has already attracted international recognition and whose future career is exceptionally promising.

In 2015 de Londras was part of the group of ten feminist lawyers asked to draft ‘model legislation’ for access to abortion law for the Irish Labour Party.

Her work on abortion law reform in Ireland has been covered across international media including the Irish Independent,[13] the Conversation,[14] the Journal,[15] Newstalk,[16] the Oxford Human Rights Hub,[17][18] BBC World News, CNN International, The Atlantic, Times (Ireland Edition), the Times, Dagsavisen, Politiken, and Hot Press.

[19][20] As well as criticising the Protection of Life During Pregnancy Act 2013, de Londras argued that the 8th Amendment was "unliveable"[21] and unworkable,[22] and characterised it as a "pre-emptive strike against women’s liberation".

The website also had a Twitter and Facebook presence, and in partnership with Lawyers for Choice produced and distributed more than 10,000 leaflets[27] explaining the legal implications of repeal and the Government’s proposed new legislation.

In her first major book, Detention in the ‘War on Terror’ (Cambridge University Press, 2011), she argued that in times of terrorism both government and populist urges are in favour of the introduction of measures that tend to be repressive of human rights, but that domestic courts are increasingly pushing back against these measures in order to try to ensure interferences with rights are proportionate.

She ran a major EU-funded project called SECILE to assess the scale of EU counter-terrorism and to analyse the extent to which it might be said to be legitimate, effective and impactful.

Building on this work de Londras has argued consistently that the processes of making and reviewing EU counter-terrorism law are inadequate and require substantial revision.

In 2017 she was awarded a grant by the Joseph Rowntree Charitable Trust to lead an 18-month project on counter-terrorism review in the UK Archived 20 June 2018 at the Wayback Machine, expanding this governance concern into the domestic realm.

[36] This project resulted in a new book, with Jessie Blackbourn (Durham) and Lydia Morgan (Birmingham), entitled Accountability and Review in the Counter-Terrorist State, published in 2019 by Bristol University Press.