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Dr Natalie Hodgson

Dr Natalie Hodgson

Senior Lecturer
Law & Justice
School of Global & Public Law

I am a Senior Lecturer in the School of Global and Public Law at ºÚÁÏÍø´óÊÂ¼Ç Law & Justice. I hold a BA (Criminology) (Hons I, University Medal) / LLB (Hons I) from ºÚÁÏÍø´óÊÂ¼Ç and completed my PhD at ºÚÁÏÍø´óÊÂ¼Ç where I was a Scientia PhD Scholar. I previously worked as an Assistant Professor in the School of Law at the University of Nottingham, where I was also Head of the Forced Migration Unit in the University's Human Rights Law Centre.

I research in the areas of criminology, criminal justice, and international criminal law. I have a particular focus on 'state crime', studying the harmful practices of states and how civil society actors use law to challenge and resist those harms. My research explores the expressive dimensions of law, particularly international criminal law, and the strategic use of "Article 15 communications", whereby an individual or organisation writes to the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court to provide the Prosecutor with information on alleged crimes within the jurisdiction of the Court.ÌýIn 2021, my article 'International Criminal Law and Civil Society Resistance to Offshore Detention' was awarded the Australian Human Rights Journal's Andrea Durbach Prize.

More recently, I have also been involved in conducting international comparative research on judge-alone trials in common law countries.Ìý

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  • Book Chapters | 2025
    Hodgson N, 2025, 'Female Defendants in the Simone Gbagbo Warrant', in Feminist Judgments: Reimagining the International Criminal Court, Cambridge University Press, pp. 389 - 398
  • Journal articles | 2024
    Hodgson N, 2024, '#AUSPOL #WARCRIMES #ICC: exploring the social media response to a communication to the International Criminal Court', Griffith Law Review, 33, pp. 125 - 147,
    Journal articles | 2024
    Hodgson N, 2024, 'EXCLUSIONARY BY DESIGN: LAW, LAWYERS, AND STATE HARMS IN THE UK’S STREAMLINED ASYLUM PROCESS', State Crime Journal, 13, pp. 128 - 147,
    Journal articles | 2024
    Hodgson N, 2024, 'Resisting the State Crimes of the Global North Exploring the Potential of International Criminal Law', Journal of International Criminal Justice, 22, pp. 151 - 168,
    Journal articles | 2023
    Hodgson N, 2023, 'Victims as Agents of Accountability: Strengthening Victims’ Right to Review at the International Criminal Court', Criminal Law Forum, 34, pp. 273 - 294,
    Journal articles | 2021
    Hodgson N, 2021, 'Exploring the International Criminal Court's Deterrent Potential A Case Study of Australian Politics', Journal of International Criminal Justice, 19, pp. 913 - 936,
    Journal articles | 2020
    Hodgson N; Cashmore J; Cowdery N; Goodman-Delahunty J; Martschuk N; Parkinson P; Powell MB; Shackel R, 2020, 'The Decision to Prosecute: A Comparative Analysis of Australian Prosecutorial Guidelines', CRIMINAL LAW JOURNAL, 44, pp. 155 - 172,
    Journal articles | 2020
    Hodgson N, 2020, 'International criminal law and civil society resistance to offshore detention', Australian Journal of Human Rights, 26, pp. 449 - 467,
    Journal articles | 2019
    Brubacher SP; Hodgson N; Goodman-Delahunty J; Powell MB; Westera N, 2019, 'Children’s competence to testify in Australian courts: Implementing the royal commission recommendation', University of New South Wales Law Journal, 42, pp. 1386 - 1410,
    Journal articles | 2017
    Hodgson N, 2017, 'Gender Justice or Gendered Justice? Female Defendants in International Criminal Tribunals', Feminist Legal Studies, 25, pp. 337 - 357,
  • Reports | 2025
    Hodgson N; Thomason M, 2025, Independent Review of the Criminal Courts: Response,
    Reports | 2022
    Gleeson M; Hodgson N, 2022, Offshore Processing and Asylum Policy – Lessons from Australia: Post event report
    Reports | 2021
    McAdam J; Goodwin-Gill G; Gleeson M; Higgins C; Pillai S; Hodgson N; Yacoub N, 2021, Submission on the Nationality and Borders Bill 2021,
  • Media | 2025
    Hodgson N; Thomason M, 2025, Could England and Wales introduce jury-free trials? Here’s how they work in other countries,
    Media | 2024
    Hodgson N, 2024, Rwanda asylum deportation plan faces more delays – how did we get here?,
    Media | 2024
    Hodgson N, 2024, The obstacles that could still stop flights to Rwanda from taking off,
    Media | 2023
    Gleeson M; Hodgson N, 2023, Courts, Channel crossings and the Rwanda plan: A conversation about UK asylum policy, Kaldor Centre for International Refugee Law
    Media | 2023
    Hodgson N, 2023, Who counts as a refugee? Four questions to understand current migration debates,
    Media | 2023
    Hodgson N, 2023, Why UK court ruled Rwanda isn’t a safe place to send refugees – and what this means for the government’s immigration plans,

My Teaching

I teach LAWS8213: Legal Concepts, Research and Writing, and LAWS3067 / JURD7467 / LAWS8991: International Criminal Law.