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Emily Haslam joined Loughborough Law in 2025 as an international lawyer. Prior to Loughborough, she was a Senior Lecturer at the University of Kent and Co-director of the Centre for Critical International Law at Kent. She has lectured at the University of Sussex and the University of Wales, Aberystwyth. She studied for an LLB with German Law at the LSE and Marburg University, Germany. She completed an LLM in International Law at King’s College, London and a PhD at the LSE. She studied for the Bar at the Inns of Court School of Law where she was the recipient of a Harmsworth Scholarship from Middle Temple. Emily is a series editor of the Kent Critical Law Series and has been an editorial board member of Feminist Legal Studies and feminists@law.
Emily’s research interests lie in the field of International Law, with a particular focus on International Criminal Law, International Legal History, Memory and Transitions, Peace, Civil Society and Resistance. Her research employs methods from legal history and archival studies to interviews and social movement analyses. Her monograph, The Slave Trade, Abolition and the Long History of International Criminal Law: The Recaptive and the Victim, (Routledge, 2019) challenged orthodox approaches to international criminal legal histories, through its examination of the figure of the recaptive. In 2024, she published The Subjects and Subjectivities of International Criminal Law: A Critical Introduction (Hart). This book encourages reflection on the methodology and politics of international criminal justice by contrasting the principles and institutions of orthodox international criminal law with alternative visions of it put forward by non-state tribunals. She is currently principal investigator on a BA/Leverhulme funded small grant on a joint project which explores the role of law in (dis)enabling debates about the commemoration of controversial historical figures in the built environment. She is developing a new research project which explores peace gardens and practices of peace gardening in International Law.
Emily has taught a range of subjects in International Law, including in the fields of Public International Law, International Criminal Justice and Human Rights. She is committed to research led, critical and interdisciplinary legal education. She has extensive experience in postgraduate legal education and has been nominated for student union teaching awards on multiple occasions.
Books
- Emily Haslam, The Subjects and Subjectivities of International Criminal Law: A Critical Introduction (Hart 2024)
- Emily Haslam, The Slave Trade, Abolition and the Long History of International Criminal Law: The Recaptive and the Victim (Routledge 2019)
Chapters
- Emily Haslam, ‘Archived Bodies: The Transatlantic Slave Trade and Abolition’ in Didi Herman and Connal Parsley (eds) Interdisciplinarities: Research Process, Method and the Body of the Law (Palgrave Macmillan 2022)
- Emily Haslam, ‘Writing More Inclusive Histories of International Criminal Law: Lessons from the Slave Trade and Slavery ‘ in Tallgren and Skouteris (eds) The New Histories of International Criminal Law (OUP 2019)
Articles
Emily Haslam and Rod Edmunds, ‘Whose Number is it Anyway? Common Legal Representation, Consultations and the “Statistical Victim”’ (2017) Journal of International Criminal Justice 931-952