Judit Villena Rodo

Judit holds a Bachelor of Laws from the University of Stirling (First Class Honours, 2017) and a Master of Laws in Human Rights from the Irish Centre for Human Rights (First Class, 2019). She is fourth year Irish Research Council scholar working on coercive control at the intersection with precarious immigration statuses, and survivors’ access to remedies in Ireland and Spain. Judit is interested in states’ legal and policy responses to intimate partner violence, and the reified barriers to justice posed by internal immigration laws and policies. She has been a teaching assistant and lecturer in various undergraduate law courses at the University of Galway, and a lecturer in human rights law at postgraduate level at Maynooth University. Judit is working with the Istanbul Convention secretariat as a National Expert during the Group of Experts against Violence against Women monitoring exercise of Ireland under the Convention. She is currently a visiting researcher at Harvard Law School.

Thesis title: 'Migrant Women, Coercive Control and Intimate Partner Violence: Access to remedies in Ireland and Spain'

Supervisor: Prof. Siobhán Mullally

Scholarship and awards:
Irish Research Council Government of Ireland Postgraduate Scholarship (2020-2023)
NUI EJ Phelan Fellowship, Special Commendation award (July 2020)
Established Professor of Law Fellowship, ICHR (July 2019)

Judit’s publications are listed here.

Upcoming publication: “Coercive control, legislative reform and the Istanbul Convention: Ireland’s Domestic Violence Act 2018” Northern Ireland Legal Quarterly, approved for publication December 2021.