Françoise Hampson O.B.E
BLLB Newcastle (UK)
Professor, School of Law
- Room: 5S.6.9
- Telephone (external): (+44) 01206 872564
- Telephone (internal): 2564
- e-mail: fhampson [at] essex.ac.uk
- Departmental webpage
Francoise Hampson studied law as an undergraduate at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne. She then taught at the University of Dundee, Scotland, for eight years before taking up a post at the University of Essex in 1983. From 1998-2007, she was a member of the UN Sub-Commission on the Promotion and Protection of Human Rights. In 2009, she was a member of the EU Panel which produced a report on Sri Lanka’s implementation of certain human rights obligations in the context of GSP+.
She was a member of the Steering Committee and Group of Experts for the Study on Customary International Humanitarian Law of the ICRC and has acted as an independent expert/consultant for the ICRC and other organisations in the field of the law of armed conflict.