Julie Hannah
Email
jhanna@essex.ac.ukTelephone
+44 (0) 1206 873879
Location
4SB.6.12, Colchester Campus
Biography
Julie Hannah is a Lecturer in the School of Law, Director of the International Centre on Human Rights and Drug Policy based at the Human Rights Centre, and co-founder of the Centre for Mental Health, Human Rights, and Social Justice, a global research consortium. Her research focuses on the intersections between medicalisation, criminalisation and human rights. She has a particular interest in international drug control policy, mental health, and and the human rights aspects of the pursuit of social justice. From 2015-2020, Julie was the Senior Advisor to the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the Right to Health. Since 2012, Julie has supervised a range of projects in the Human Rights Centre Clinic, which has involved the production of research for UN human rights mechanisms, national and global networks of people who use drugs, and a range of social justice focused civil society actors. Julie previously spent a decade working in refugee protection and resettlement in the United States and Southeast Asia. She has an LLM (distinction) in International Human Rights and Humanitarian Law from Essex University and BA in Foreign Affairs from the University of Virginia.
Appointments
University of Essex
Lecturer, School of Law, University of Essex (1/7/2021 - present)
Other academic
Director, International Centre on Human Rights and Drug Policy (1/1/2015 - present)
