Dr Judit Villena Rodó supports the implementation of the programme, provides academic support and teaches in the academic skills programme and the rolling seminar in International Law.
Judit holds a Master of Laws (LLM) and a PhD in Human Rights Law from the Irish Centre for Human Rights, as well as an LLB in Scots Law from the University of Stirling. Her doctoral research, funded by the Irish Research Council, focused on access to remedies for migrant women survivors of coercive control under the framework of the Istanbul Convention. Judit’s research interests include gender and human rights, critical and feminist legal theories, and clinical legal education.
During her PhD, she was a lecturer and teaching assistant at the University of Galway and Maynooth University (Ireland) where she taught human rights courses and instructed at the Irish Centre for Human Rights Clinic. She has also been a visiting researcher at the Pedro Arrupe Human Rights Institute (Bilbao, Spain), the Istanbul Convention Secretariat at the Council of Europe (Strasbourg, France), and Harvard Law School (Cambridge, US).