Henrietta is a Lecturer in the School of Law, University College Cork, Ireland. Henrietta’s writing draws from feminist, postcolonial and legal geographic theory and global socio-legal methods. She has a particular interest in ‘home’. Her book, Home and International Law (Routledge, 2024), conceptualises the meaning and experience of ‘home’ in international law. Her article, Nowhere home (London Review of International Law, 2024) looks at the destruction of home in Gaza. Henrietta is a member of the Gaza Tribunal, an independent people’s tribunal. She reported on the destruction of home in Gaza at the Sarajevo session of the tribunal in May 2025. Read more on Middle East Eye: ‘Gaza genocide: How the policy of ’nowhere home’ strips Palestinians of their identity’. Henrietta is also a qualified mediator (Centre for Effective Dispute Resolution, UK and Irish Professional Mediators’ Organisation). 

Before joining UCC, Henrietta was a lecturer in the Centre for Law and Social Justice at the University of Leeds. Henrietta was also seconded as a policy lawyer to the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government (UK) from 2019-2020, working on the Grenfell Inquiry. Between 2016 and 2017 Henrietta was a Max Weber Postdoctoral Fellow in Law at the European University Institute. Henrietta wrote her doctoral thesis at the London School of Economics and Political Science, supervised by Professor Susan Marks and Professor Linda Mulcahy. She conducted her PhD fieldwork in Palestine, Cambodia and the United Kingdom. Henrietta’s research interests are international law in everyday life, socio-economics rights and substantive equality (with a particular focus on home and housing), international development, international humanitarian law, global socio-legal studies, and methodology. Henrietta has previously taught at the LSE and at Melbourne Law School. She received her LLB (Hons) and BA at the University of Melbourne, Australia, and BCL (Dist) at Oxford University. She is a qualified Barrister and Solicitor in the Supreme Court of Victoria and previously practised at Ashurst. Henrietta was associate (clerk/judicial assistant) to the Honourable Justice Susan Crennan AO, former judge of the High Court of Australia. Henrietta founded Right Now in 2004.

• PhD co-supervisor (50/50 split) for Dr Leigh Toomey (2025), former chair of UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention. Thesis title: ‘A new approach for the United Nations Working Group of Arbitrary Detention’. 
• PhD co-supervisor (50/50 split) for Dr Tobi Rabat Abudu (2022). Thesis title: ‘Towards the protection of all people at sea: Exploring human security, maritime security and international law’. 
• Currently lead supervisor for Lynn Sheehan, Head of Operations, European Union Advisory Mission to Ukraine, provisional thesis title 'Evolution of the application of ICL/IHL and the processing of core international crimes cases: A case study of the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine' (2026-28).

Awarded

• Enterprise Ireland, ERC proposal grant, ‘Rights and rites of return’ – PI, €15,104 awarded in 2025
• The Housing Agency, ‘Person- and place-centred housing impacts: Evaluating efforts to address vacancy and the efficient use of housing stock in Ireland’ – co-PI with Dr Maedhbh Nic Lochlainn (UCC geography), Jeanette Fitzsimmons (UCC planning), €29,978 awarded in 2025
• Royal Irish Academy Charlemont Grant, ‘Towards a feminist critical geography of law and home’ – PI, €2056 awarded in 2023
• Enterprise Ireland, ERC proposal grant, ‘Global patterns of homemaking and home-unmaking: Defending homeplaces and homelands against domicide’ – PI, €13,120 awarded in 2022

In progress

• Research Ireland Investigators Programme, ‘Rights and rites of return’, awaiting stage 1 results (expected Dec 2025/Jan 2026)
• European Research Council Starting Grant, ‘Right and rites of return’, to be submitted Oct 2026