Helena Kennedy

Helena Kennedy

Legal Expert

She has championed law reform for women, especially relating to sexual and domestic violence and developed the defense of Battered Women’s syndrome in the British courts. She has chaired the British Council and the UK Human Genetics Commission.  She has been a member of the House of Lords for over 20 years, where she chairs The European Union Sub-committee on Justice issues.  She is chair of Justice, the British arm of the International Commission of Jurists.

She is the chair of the Booker Prize Foundation.  She has stepped down as Principal of Mansfield college, Oxford and become the new Chancellor of Sheffield Hallam University.  She has just taken over as the new Director of the International Bar Association’s Human Rights Institute.

Helena Kennedy

Championing law reform for women, especially relating to sexual and domestic violence and developed the defense of Battered Women's syndrome in the British courts