The University of Exeter Law School is delighted to share that Dr Louise Loder, Senior Lecturer in Law, was elected Vice Chair of the Human Rights Lawyers Association at the HRLA AGM in London on Tuesday 18 February. Louise has been an Executive Committee Member of HRLA since early 2024, overseeing communications and legal education outreach.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\nI am thrilled to serve as Vice Chair of the HRLA in 2025-2026 and look forward to working closely with Shoaib Khan, the new Chair of HRLA, and the HRLA Executive and Junior Lawyer Committees. I have the greatest admiration for the work that the HRLA does to protect and promote human rights in the United Kingdom, and look forward to contributing in the year ahead to scaling up HRLA’s engagement with law students and early career practitioners.<\/p>\nDr Louise Loder<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\nLouise is a human rights, IP and legal skills specialist; Programme Director for the LLM and Director of Prizes, Skills & Scholarships in the Law School; and a member of the Law School’s Human Rights and Democracy Forum. Louise, who completed both her LLM and PhD at Exeter, has 20 years of international experience in communications, strategic project leadership, human rights\/sustainability education and programme management. In various roles for international NGOs, she has led numerous initiatives focused on judicial independence, business and human rights, climate action, women’s leadership and youth empowerment, and the future of work. She has previously consulted as a subject matter expert for rule of law and legal education projects, reports and training platforms, and has served in senior governance advisory roles for NGOs managing Board and Executive Committee communications, reporting, engagement and advocacy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Currently, Louise is a member of the International Bar Association\u2019s Academic and Professional Development Committee and supports the Bar Human Rights Committee of England & Wales in their legal education and rule of law projects and publications advocacy. She is a Board Member of the Intellectual Property Awareness Network (IPAN), a member of the Executive Committee of the Association of Law Teachers, and an active member of the EU Fundamental Rights Agency\u2019s Human Rights Communicators Network. Louise has a keen interest in open justice – specifically, court reporting, the televising of trials, public inquiries and trial monitoring. In her scholarship and external engagements, she is particularly interested in skills for the future of law, work and business, and in mainstreaming human rights education \/ public legal education through technology, art, entertainment and culture.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
For more information about the Human Rights Lawyers Association, please visit https:\/\/hrla.org.uk<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dr Louise Loder takes up this position for 2025-2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":263,"featured_media":4571,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,1],"tags":[155],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n
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